Our mergers and acquisitions practice involves enterprises as diverse as technology startups to Fortune 50 organizations that conduct business globally.

We are committed to providing value-added legal counsel, improving the financial health of your business as a result of our work. To schedule a complimentary consultation, contact us online or call 440-796-4592.

As past President of the Ohio Venture Association and as a Founding Member of the North Coast Angel Fund, Ben Calkins has direct access to the key players in the mergers and acquisitions and capital markets throughout northeast Ohio and beyond. Leveraging our extensive network of business and finance professionals, we bring people, ideas and capital together.

Comprehensive M & A Representation

• Acquisition and divestiture of stock and assets and other transactions, including assets for cash and assets for stock

• Purchasing or selling businesses
• Negotiation and drafting purchase agreements
• Tax planning, choice of entity and corporate formation
• Leveraged buy-outs
• Reorganization, reincorporation, and restructuring
• Reporting and regulatory compliance
• Tender & exchange offers
• Confidentiality and non-circumvention agreements
• Sales of business assets, including real estate
• Closing coordination

From $5 million to $500 million dollar transactions, we represent buyers, sellers, investors and lenders in our Mergers & Acquisitions work. Whether you are just beginning to search for a buyer or a seller, or you are further along in the process and are seeking learned advice and counsel, Ben Calkins is a Mergers/Acquisitions lawyer with considerable experience gained from closing literally hundreds of transactions.

For those at the beginning of the process, we help you to develop acquisition criteria, narrowing your focus and proactively identifying opportunities. Next, we help you to properly structure a proposal and a letter of intent. We work closely with you to identify how to fund the deal, find outside sources of capital, perform due diligence and negotiate and document the transaction. With hundreds of transactions completed over 30 years of legal practice, Ben Calkins knows how to effectively represent your interests and get the job done.

We are also well positioned to advise business owners relative to preparing the business for sale and then closing a sale on terms advantageous to the seller.

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