Covington & Burling LLP operates as a limited liability partnership worldwide, with the practice in England and Wales conducted by an affiliated
limited liability multinational partnership, Covington & Burling LLP, which is formed under the laws of the State of Delaware in the United States
and authorized and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority with registration number 77071..
Covington has a market-leading, Chambers-ranked M&A practice with 200+ lawyers who focus on transactions across our Washington, New York, Boston, California, London, Frankfurt, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Dubai, and Johannesburg offices. In recent years, we have handled 550+ completed mergers and acquisitions, with an aggregate value of more than $750 billion. Clients praise the firm as the “highest quality” and “thorough attention to detail and client needs,” Chambers USA.
We represent Global 100 companies, private equity firms and investment banks as well as venture-backed companies in public and private transactions worldwide, including public acquisitions and divestitures, “going private” transactions, proxy contests and unsolicited bids, spin-offs, acquisitions and divestitures of venture-backed and other private companies, private equity transactions, joint ventures, cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, and post-merger integration.
Covington’s approach to M&A combines our corporate expertise with our deep understanding of regulated industries and our commercial approach. This combination enables our clients to structure their transactions most advantageously and with a view towards meeting their legal and business objectives.
Our M&A experience covers a range of industry sectors, in particular life sciences, technology, financial institutions, fintech, energy (including clean tech and renewable energy), aerospace, defense and national security, consumer brands, industrials, media and entertainment, and sports.
Each client has access to Covington’s full resources, including industry expertise and substantive due diligence areas such as antitrust/competition, CFIUS/FDI, regulatory, intellectual property, environmental, employee benefits, tax, and compliance, with lawyers experienced in M&A processes and time demands.