Cross-border deals carry a layer of complexity that purely domestic transactions don't — different legal systems, different market practices, and counterparties who may be relying on entirely different assumptions about how a deal should be papered and closed. We represent businesses and investors through that complexity, from the earliest strategic discussions through signing and closing.
Our practice covers the full arc of a cross-border transaction: structuring and negotiating strategic partnerships, supporting M&A processes involving international parties or assets, forming and governing joint ventures, and coordinating deal teams that often span multiple firms, jurisdictions, and disciplines. We work closely with clients' other advisors — accountants, local counsel, bankers — to keep a transaction moving without losing sight of the client's underlying commercial objectives, which are easy to lose in the mechanics of a complex, multi-party negotiation.
Clients engage us both as lead counsel on a transaction and as dedicated cross-border counsel supporting a broader deal team. In either role, our aim is the same: a deal that closes on terms that reflect what the client actually set out to achieve, not just what was easiest to agree to under time pressure.