Services / Mergers & Acquisitions

MOLL WENDÉN’s lawyers are accustomed to working with both large and small corporate transactions. We take pains to get to know our clients’ needs and wishes. This enables us, in a cost-efficient manner, to adapt our work accordingly. Even in an environment with a tight timetable and fast pace, it is natural for MOLL WENDÉN to work with a great deal of commitment, a high degree of accessibility and against short deadlines.

Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions are part of our core business. Last year, MOLL WENDÉN acted as advisor in some forty transactions, with a total transaction value of approximately one billion euros. MOLL WENDÉN advises both buyers and sellers. We can provide comprehensive legal advice to a client in relation to all aspects of the transaction. The matters in which we are engaged usually include legal due diligence, drafting and negotiating sale documentation, competition notification, acquisition financing, and management of the funds flow and other measures at completion. If the transaction requires input from foreign law firms, accounting firms, environmental advisers and other consultants, MOLL WENDÉN offers a well-developed network of co-operating partners. We often handle the procurement of such services on behalf of our clients.

International matters
As a result of our international heritage from Linklaters, many transactions that we are involved in have foreign connections. MOLL WENDÉN often acts for foreign companies in conjunction with acquisitions in Sweden. We also assist Swedish clients in foreign acquisitions and are regularly engaged by foreign law firms to act as local counsel in conjunction with international M&A transactions. Our background means that we fully understand the way in which international law firms work on cross-border M&A projects.

Private equity
Private equity firms have become dominant players on the M&A market. Several of our lawyers have over ten years’ experience of PE transactions. MOLL WENDÉN regularly acts for various PE clients and their portfolio companies with acquisitions and divestments. We understand the particular requirements which arise in such transactions, for example with respect to the acquisition structure, financing solutions and incentive programmes for management. In several cases, MOLL WENDÉN has also advised management on their investment in shares or warrants in the target company, or in relation to the sale of their ownership interest.

Structural changes and co-operation
Structural changes and co-operation arrangements are closely related to M&A. MOLL WENDÉN provides advice in relation to changes in corporate ownership structure and intra-group reorganisations. Structured co-operation between companies, such as joint ventures, outsourcing, or sale & leaseback transactions, is also among MOLL WENDÉN’s key areas.