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They bring deal judgment that goes well beyond the documents. They know when to push and when to close.
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They treated our transaction as if it were the only one they were working on.
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Exceptionally well organized across a complex, multi-jurisdictional carve-out with a very tight timetable.
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The team stayed calm through a contested process and kept our board informed at every step.
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Their regulatory planning on a cross-border deal saved us months of uncertainty.
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Senior lawyers stay involved from the first call to signing. That is not always the case at large firms.
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Excellent at anticipating where the other side would push and preparing us accordingly.
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They integrated tax, antitrust, financing and employment advice seamlessly into one process.
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A genuinely global team. We closed in four jurisdictions with one point of contact.
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Practical, creative and commercial when negotiating a difficult earn-out structure.
Overview
Corvane Ryle's M&A practice has grown into a global platform that meets clients' needs on everything from routine acquisitions to the most complex and transformational transactions they will ever face. In 2025 the firm advised on more than 1,100 deals with aggregate value of US$410 billion.
We act for strategic acquirers, sponsors, targets, special committees and financial advisors across public and private M&A, takeovers and schemes of arrangement, carve-outs, joint ventures, minority investments and cross-border combinations. Our team is led from New York, with deep benches in London, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Brussels, Frankfurt and Singapore.
The deal environment in late 2026 rewards preparation. Merger control is more demanding on both sides of the Atlantic: the revised HSR form in the United States has added meaningful preparation time, and the European Commission and the CMA continue to examine non-horizontal and technology deals closely. Foreign direct investment regimes, including CFIUS, the UK National Security and Investment Act and the EU's screening framework, now shape timing and structure on a growing share of transactions. Shareholder activism, private credit financing and the return of large public-to-private deals are changing how boards approach strategy.
Our M&A lawyers work hand in hand with our antitrust, tax, financing, privacy and employment colleagues so that regulatory and structuring questions are answered early, not discovered late. Miriam Okafor-Lindqvist, the firm's Chair, and Hiroshi Kanemoto in Singapore are among the partners who lead the practice.
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Areas of focus
Representative experience
- Advised Halvern Retail Group on its acquisition of Brightmoor Foods.
- Advised a NYSE-listed technology company on a US$6 billion all-stock combination with a European software group.
- Represented Northwall Capital in a take-private of a UK-listed business services company by way of scheme of arrangement.
- Advised Solenne Energy on the sale of a minority stake in its US solar portfolio.
- Acted for the special committee of a healthcare company in a controlling-stockholder transaction.
- Advised Tidewater Logistics on a cross-border carve-out spanning 11 jurisdictions.