Mergers & Acquisitions
Seasoned Deal Counsel on Fixed Fees and Fast Timelines
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Seasoned deal counsel for acquisitions, sales and strategic transactions.
Buy-Side and Sell-Side Acquisitions
Share Purchase Agreements
Asset Purchase Agreements
Letters of Intent (LOIs) and Term Sheet Negotiation
Due Diligence Management
Contingent Consideration
Coordination & Execution of Approvals and Consents
Financing Support
Post-Closing Matters
Employment Relationship Changes related to M&A
Corporate Structure Considerations
“What I love about transactional work is the opportunity to be a trusted partner to my clients on high-impact deals. I am grateful for the opportunity to provide them with both legal and commercial judgment, find practical solutions, and ultimately reach a successful outcome."
Josh Holtzman, Lawyer at Blackletter
Blackletter: Your Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer
Blackletter guides buy-side and sell-side deals from letter of intent to close.
Blackletter’s mergers & acquisitions lawyers work alongside frontier technology, so you get experienced judgment at the speed a live deal demands. You pay a fixed fee, quoted up front with no surprises and no billable hours.
Our attorneys work hand-in-hand with BlackletterOS to provide experienced judgment at the speed a live deal demands. Transactions are completed on a flat, all-inclusive fee, quoted upfront with no surprises and no billable hours. Blackletter’s M&A practice is industry agnostic.
Buy-Side Deal Counsel
We support buyers through business acquisitions and related transactions. Our mandate can be scoped to the unique deal and your preferences. We work with independent sponsors, family offices and holding companies, businesses and platforms, private equity firms, and VC-backed AI-enabled holding companies and roll-ups.
Our goal is to provide pragmatic advice that sets you, as a buyer, up for success in the deal process and post-closing.
Our mandate is tailored to your needs and typically covers:
Determining optimal deal structure (stock purchase, asset purchase, corporate structuring to optimize tax implications)
A letter of intent or term sheet that outlines key deal terms and the parameters for the deal process
Legal due diligence on corporate records, the cap table, key contracts, IP ownership, employees and regulatory compliance
Drafting and negotiating the purchase documents, disclosure schedules and closing deliverables
Earnouts, escrows and holdbacks
Supporting with financing, whether bank financing, a seller note or through the SBA
Offer letters and contractor agreements for the people joining you, handled by our Employment lawyers
Sell-Side Deal Counsel
Most entrepreneurs sell a company once, which is why experienced deal counsel plays a critical role. Whether the buyer is a strategic acquirer, a long-standing commercial partner or a financial sponsor, it will have advisors who do deals for a living. The magnitude and quality of your outcome sits in the details: how the price adjusts at closing, how much sits in escrow, what you promise about the business, and how long those promises last.
Optimal outcomes are achieved with the right advice, from the beginning. Achieving your best outcome is critical to us. Our fee is structured to encompass the whole deal process from pre-LOI through post-closing. We want to be in the room with you, on your side, from day zero.
A sell-side mandate typically includes:
Diligence preparation, from board consents to a reconciled cap table and signed IP assignments
Review and negotiation of the letter of intent before exclusivity starts
The data room and disclosure schedules
The purchase agreement, including working capital, escrow, indemnities, earnouts and non-competes
A clear view of how the proceeds flow to founders, employees and investors
Board and stockholder approvals to sign and close
How our M&A practice works
Blackletter is a law firm built on the optimal union of technology and human judgment. Our applied AI platform, BlackletterOS, quarterbacks every matter from start to finish, enabling us to combine human judgment with the speed, accuracy and comprehensive memory that only AI can deliver.
On a transaction, technology handles the volume work, from first-pass document review to checklists and tracking every open point. Our lawyers focus on judgment and communication: what to concede, what to hold firm on, and what actually changes the outcome. BlackletterOS retains a complete memory of every matter, so that your next transaction can run even more smoothly than the last.
We quote transactions upfront based on their complexity and provide a fixed fee. We align our incentives with yours: to achieve your desired outcome from the transaction, without manufactured complexity. There are no surprises and no billable hours, which means you can ask questions and seek advice without fearing the impact on your future bill.
Blackletter’s Corporate, Commercial and Employment practices can continue to support the business on an ongoing basis.
A typical deal runs in six stages:
Scoping
We get up to speed on the deal, your timeline and your priorities to provide a fixed, all-inclusive fee—this can happen quickly.
Letter of intent
We negotiate the terms that set up everything that follows.
Due diligence
We run it or prepare you for it, and flag anything that changes value or risk.
Documents
We negotiate the main agreement and everything that hangs off it.
Signing and closing
We manage approvals, consents and the funds flow to ensure nothing slips.
After closing
We stay with you through working capital adjustments, earnout questions and escrow releases.
PRICING
Fixed Fees, Custom Scope
All fees are fixed and quoted upfront, based on transaction complexity. No hourly rates and no unexpected charges. We can customize our scope of work to match your needs, whether that be end-to-end advisory and execution or advisory on discrete aspects of the deal. Pricing by the matter, not the hour, represents a paradigm shift for law: It means we’re paid for the value we create, not the time we spend.
