Advise our clients on a potential takeover offer with our Mergers & Acquisitions team.
Are you interested in helping clients overcome complex and high-profile challenges? In joining a collaborative, team-focused culture spread around the world? In doing some of the best work of your life in an environment that encourages you to be you?
Our virtual job simulation gives you a chance to learn more about our firm and the type of work we do. It’s part of our ongoing effort to develop and offer meaningful mentoring and training to our lawyers as well as to those just starting their legal careers.
It begins with you!
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This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete.
Skills Learned:
- Kick-off the transaction
Get started in Project Reno, a high-stakes M&A transaction, by reviewing an NDA and preparing your client’s negotiating position on key drafting changes.- NDA review
- Issue spotting
- Contract negotiation
- Review the customer agreement
Using AI in the due diligence process, analyze three key customer contracts and consider their implication on the drafting of the Merger Agreement.- Key contracts review
- Contract analysis
- Transaction document structuring
- Offer shareholder advice
Provide urgent advice to the client’s board regarding the emergence of a new bidder in the transaction.- Commercial legal advice
- Client communication
- Regulatory advice
- Negotiate the transaction
Prepare a presentation to the Board summarizing the key mechanics of the earn-out provisions as contained in the Sale & Purchase Agreement.- Board advice
- Earn-out regime review
- Client presentation
- Finish Line
