National M&A counsel for buyers and sellers, from strategic transactions to complex and distressed deals.
Our M&A practice is national in scope. We represent buyers and sellers in transactions throughout the U.S., ranging from straightforward acquisitions and sales to complex, highly negotiated, and distressed deals.
Curt represents owners and companies selling their businesses, helping them evaluate offers, structure transactions, conduct an efficient sale process, negotiate definitive agreements, manage diligence, and address the legal issues that arise through closing.
Curt represents buyers in acquisitions, including transaction structuring, due diligence, negotiation, financing, regulatory considerations, risk allocation, and closing.
Curt is a former Chairperson of the M&A Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association and has been a frequent lecturer on M&A at the Wharton School and Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
For several years, Curt has been a guest lecturer at the Wharton School on M&A and venture capital financing.
His approach is designed to keep the legal work aligned with the client's commercial objectives, whether the client is pursuing growth, an exit, a strategic acquisition, or a complex ownership transition.
Evaluate transaction structure, objectives, timing, and principal legal and business risks.
Identify material issues and translate diligence findings into appropriate deal protections.
Negotiate letters of intent, purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, and related documents.
Coordinate debt, equity, venture, and other financing considerations that affect the transaction.
Manage the legal work required to move the transaction efficiently from signing to closing.
Address transition, governance, integration, earn-outs, indemnification, and other continuing obligations.
An early conversation can help identify the transaction structure, principal risks, and steps needed to move forward.
