M&A Litigation
Leo Legal Consult has extensive experience handling high-stakes, complex and nontraditional transaction-related litigation, often involving novel issues of law and requiring strategic coordination of multiple suits. Precedent-setting wins for our clients in merger litigation brought in courts throughout the world have given corporate defendants greater ammunition to protect critical business interests nationwide.
Leo Legal Consult litigators work closely with our corporate lawyers, often involved from the early stages of a transaction to provide strategic advice and counseling along the way—arming us to respond quickly and holistically to any related litigation. Given our expertise in this area, we also are frequently brought on to defend against M&A-related litigation, even where our corporate attorneys were not involved in the underlying transaction, and are noted for achieving creative and commercial resolutions. We have significant experience representing companies, boards of directors and special committees in individual, class and derivative actions arising from contemplated or hostile transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and other business deals. Our litigators handle high‑stakes, multi-district litigation covering the full range of transaction‑related issues, including the defense of company independence against activist shareholders, breach of contract and fiduciary duty allegations, challenges to shareholder rights plans and disclosure issues under state and federal laws.