Overview
The right deal at the right time—from carefully structured acquisitions to swift, strategic exits—can produce game-changing impact for your business. To succeed, you need clear vision, confident decision-making and a team to help you cut through the fog of competitive bidders and regulatory obstacles.
Manatt is that team.
With a blend of legal knowledge, consulting insight and industry experience, Manatt offers both the depth and breadth of a large national firm with the agility and attention of a dedicated boutique. That combination has won us both clients and awards, including the 2024 “Information Technology Deal of the Year ($100M-$1B)” award at the 23rd M&A Advisor Awards for our work on Sayari Labs’s $230M+ investment deal.
““…exceptional service and unparalleled expertise in mergers and acquisitions! Their seasoned team consistently delivers outstanding results, making them a top choice for any business venture.”
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Practical lawyering and strategic consulting under one roof
You cannot make decisions in isolation. Whatever your situation, you need a commercially minded legal partner who gets your business, your goals and the company-specific sensitivities that will guide your deals to success. Sound deal strategy requires understanding the legal, regulatory, economic, technological, social, and cultural forces shaping the dynamics of your sector and the broader economic outlook.
Like many firms, our attorneys bring a practical, business-minded approach to our legal work. But Manatt takes it a step further, building highly integrated multidisciplinary teams of lawyers and business consultants committed to your competitive edge.
With a profound understanding of your goals, we apply the right combination of business judgment and legal dexterity to help you move fast and make the most of every opportunity. We bring our industry knowledge and regulatory experience to bear on every recommendation we make, focusing on solutions. We also consciously avoid over-lawyering—our job is to get the job done, intelligently and efficiently, to keep your business moving forward.
A national M&A practice delivering cross-border deals
Opportunities can arise anywhere, and you need a team that has experience navigating the complexities that can arise in cross-border transactions.
Our team regularly handles deals across jurisdictions, state lines and national borders. Our cross-border clients are a who’s who of innovative industry leaders, including Mann+Hummel, Bertelsmann, Arvato and Buehler Motors.
From California to New York, North America to Europe, AMEA, and beyond, Manatt understands the regulatory environments and the business realities you may confront.
Industry insiders with decades of experience
More than 60 years ago, Manatt was formed by attorneys with deep history and knowledge in financial services. Not long after, early visionaries in health law joined and soon rose to leadership roles in the Firm.
Our investment in deepening our industry knowledge and experience continues and expands, and our lawyers and consultants continue to work hand in hand with industry giants and disruptors, as they have for decades.
Our industry experience includes:
- Financial services, ranging from traditional banking M&A to fintech and consumer financial services and payments industry leaders
- Health care, including payors, providers, medical technology, life sciences and pharmaceutical companies
- Technology and technology platforms, including SaaS and AI
- Entertainment, including film and television, music, digital content and gaming, content creators and many others
- Energy, including alternative energy acquisitions and financing
Experience
Representative Matters
Recent experience include Manatt's representation of:
- Bertelsmann and its subsidiary OnCourse Learning in the approximately $121 million sale of OnCourse’s financial services education business to Adtalem Global Education.
- BMG Rights Management (BMG) in several transactions that have aggregated over 1,000,000 copyrights.
- Community Bank in its $903 million sale to CVB Financial Corp.
- CVS Health Corporation in the acquisition of Centene Corporation’s Illinois health plan subsidiary, IlliniCare Health Plan, Inc.
- The owners of CoComelon in its sale to U.K.-based Moonbug Entertainment.
- Digital Brands Group, Inc., a curated collection of luxury lifestyle, digital-first brands, in connection with its $10 million IPO and acquisitions of clothing brands Bailey 44 and Harper & Jones, LLC.
- Eurostar, Inc. (dba Warehouse Shoe Sales or WSS), a Los Angeles-based athletic footwear and clothing company, in its $750 million acquisition by Foot Locker, a national sportswear and footwear retailer.
- Financial Investors Insurance Corporation in its sale of $250 million in bonds.
- Hain Celestial Group (Nasdaq: HAIN), a leading organic and natural products company with operations in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, in the:
- $15 million sale of its Arrowhead Mills and SunSpire brands to Chicago-based Hometown Food Company
- Sale of its Casbah Authentic Grains brand to U.S. Durum Products Limited
- KC Global Media Entertainment in its acquisition of four pan-Asian television networks owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
- Mann+Hummel, global manufacturer of air filters and other products in its strategic partnership with Pamlico Air, an American air filter products manufacturer for retail and wholesale applications.
- Mullen Technologies, Inc., in its reverse merger transaction with Net Element, Inc.
- Presidio Bank in its $200 million merger with Heritage Commerce Corp.
- Rsquared Communication in its acquisition by marketing and communications agency Archetype.
- Synergy and 530 Cannabis, two Northern California cannabis companies, in their sale to Hightimes Holding Corp. for $10.2 million and $4.4 million, respectively.
- Triller in its $28 million cash and stock sale to Proxima Media.
Clients
Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA
Blue Shield of CA
CVS Health
Hain Celestial Group
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.
Mann + Hummel GmbH
Presidio Bank
Related Practices
Bankruptcy
Capital Markets
Corporate and Finance
Employment and Labor
Financial Services Litigation and Enforcement
Private Equity and Buyout
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)
Tax
