Commercial Transactions

Since our inception in 1912, Smith Anderson has provided our clients with a diverse range of commercial transactions experience and knowledge. Today, we have more than 60 Firm lawyers engaged in business law with the experience and knowledge to meet the increasingly complex needs of our clients.

We have experience and knowledge across a broad spectrum of business law relating to commercial transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, taxation, capital markets transactions, real estate, bankruptcy, bank lending and other private finance.

Primary Services:

• Mergers
  
• Asset and stock acquisition and dispositions
  
• Joint ventures and strategic alliances
  
• Hedging and derivative transactions
  
• Securitizations and other monetization transactions
  
• Commercial real estate development and finance
  
• Franchising
  
• Sale-leasebacks
  
• Equipment leasing
• Project finance
  
• Construction finance
  
• Bank lending
  
• Public finance
  
• Syndicated loans
  
• Workouts and restructurings
  
• Private placements
  
• Shareholder's disputes and other significant matters of corporate governance

Additional Services:
We draw on the skills and experience of other areas of Smith Anderson as needed to serve our clients, including the securities and growth companies group for public offerings and securities matters, and full-service tax and employment law groups.

Our Clients:
We work with large, small and middle-market companies as they grow and adapt in a rapidly changing economic, regulatory and competitive environment. Our lawyers have extensive experience across a broad array of industries and service areas, including banking, utilities, the pharmaceutical industry, software, health care, insurance, convenience stores, and the food and beverage industries.

Our Lawyers:
We recruit from the nation’s leading law schools, and have attracted lawyers with prior experience in some of the country’s largest national law firms. Our lawyers also include former general counsel and executives, whose experience contributes to our ability to understand our clients’ needs and help formulate innovative and practical solutions. In most cases, our practice groups are led by partners with more than twenty years of experience in their particular fields. Our firm is the only firm based in the Triangle identified by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers as a leader in the areas of corporate law and mergers & acquisitions.