Capabilities
When it comes to helping our clients advance their business goals, King & Spalding knows every transaction is significant. From complex, high-value deals that shape markets to strategic transactions that sharpen a business’s focus, we bring together our collective experience, global resources, and deep industry knowledge to help acquirors, sellers and targets successfully execute and close transactions – treating each we handle with an uncompromising approach to quality and service.
Each year, we advise on hundreds of transactions across the globe, including multi-billion-dollar public company M&A transactions, serial acquisitions, private equity and strategic investments for financial sponsors, and expansion and exit deals for middle market and smaller private companies. These clients turn to us because of our understanding of their business objectives and our straightforward, outward-oriented and personal approach.
Experience Across the M&A Spectrum.
We guide acquirors, sellers and targets through multiple types of M&A transactions, including:
We also advise our clients in:
In addition to acting for principals in M&A transactions, we also advise:
Connections to the Right Resources.
The breadth of our practice allows us to complement our core M&A teams with coordinated advice across more than 50 legal areas.
We tailor each cross-practice team we assemble around the client, the transaction and the guiding business objectives — regularly collaborating with our colleagues experienced in capital markets, tax, executive compensation and benefits, intellectual property, global human capital, and data, privacy and security.
Our M&A team draws upon our practices in Trial and Global Disputes — where we have a remarkable record of success for our clients, both inside and outside the courtroom — and Government Matters — where we leverage decades of prior government service and industry expertise to provide our clients with insight in their most complex regulatory and enforcement challenges, including antitrust, national security, international trade and government investigations.
Clients benefit from our combination of our broad, global capabilities with deep-seated business and sector knowledge across several priority industries, issues and regulatory frameworks, including technology, energy, life sciences, healthcare, real estate, transportation and logistics, financial services, aerospace and defense, among others that frequently come into play in our clients’ transactions.
February 25, 2025
The Art of the Deal: Key Human Capital Considerations When Navigating M&A Transactions Under the Trump Administration
January 13, 2025
Preparing For Mexican Drug Cartels' Terrorist Designation
January 9, 2025
Record “Gun Jumping” Penalty Imposed by FTC
March 4, 2025
Restructuring Partner Laurent Assaya Joins King & Spalding’s Paris Office
February 26, 2025
Restructuring partner Laurent Assaya joins the firm’s Finance and Restructuring practice group in Paris
February 19, 2025
K&S advises ACWA Power on its acquisition of assets worth $693M from French utility developer ENGIE
February 19, 2025
King & Spalding advises ACWA Power on its purchase of ENGIE power generation and water desalination assets in Bahrain and Kuwait