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Our clients are drawn from a broad base including the FTSE 100, Fortune 500, CAC 40 corporates, private equity houses, investment banks and governments.  

Cross-border M&A is a particular specialism, involving the co-ordination of large teams across different jurisdictions. The global corporate practice is extremely well integrated across Linklaters’ network of offices and has transactional experience across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. This extensive global reach and expertise allows Linklaters to deliver exceptional service to clients – across emerging and developed markets around the world.

The firm has appeared on many of the most challenging, high profile and significant transactions of recent years. In addition to their technical expertise clients rely on the team’s market and sector knowledge and commercial advice.

Corporate/M&A is complemented by market-leading tax, real estate, employment,banking, pensions, competition/antitrust and regulatory teams.

The practice has a proven track record which is evidenced by top tier positions in the legal directories and M&A league tables.

 

The firm’s primary aim is to help clients, mainly leading multinationals and financial institutions, to avoid litigation wherever possible. When litigation is unavoidable, Linklaters focuses on the commercial objectives of clients, while assessing legal, commercial and reputational risk. The team analyses the negotiating weaknesses of opponents and devises optimum procedural tactics or creative settlement approaches.

Linklaters’ dispute resolution lawyers are as familiar with arbitration under all rules as with litigation. They settle disputes for clients in the most appropriate manner, whether by mediation, adjudication or expert determination.

Linklaters has extensive experience of regulatory investigations worldwide. Drawing on the expertise of nearly 200 litigation and arbitration lawyers across Europe, the Americas and Asia, the firm has insight into relevant cultural differences. Such scope allows the firm to handle large, complex cross-border cases.

 

The firm’s banking team advises banks and other financial institutions, companies and governments on domestic and international bank financing transactions across every industry, commercial, financial and governmental sector.

Our experience of acting not only for arranging banks and lenders but also for credit enhancers and borrowers in relation to a wide range of industrial and financial sectors means we are able to anticipate and address the requirements of all parties to a transaction. 

Our top ranked banking lawyers across Europe, Asia and the Americas act on the most challenging banking and restructuring transactions. In cross-border financing deals, Linklaters’ lawyers combine innovative tax advice with first-class transactional expertise.

 

Buying and selling real estate for investment purposes has become more complex and is often structured in a complex fashion, featuring cross-border elements. Leading global investors, developers, occupiers and financial institutions with major space requirements choose Linklaters to advise on their largest and most complex or multi-jurisdictional real estate transactions and disputes.

Cross-border experience and in-depth industry knowledge give the firm a significant competitive advantage. Linklaters’ real estate team includes global specialists inreal estate M&A, real estate investment and development, real estate finance andtax, real estate funds, derivatives and structured finance and real estate disputes,environment and planning/zoning.

The global real estate group is at the forefront of new developments, such as the creation of real estate investment trusts (REITs) across the world. Using a wide range of innovative and complex structures, Linklaters’ real estate M&A lawyers help clients to mitigate risk and tax costs and enhance returns on their transactions. The group is also renowned for its cutting-edge expertise in structured and securitised cross-border real estate finance transactions.

Security of supply, carbon reduction, energy nationalism, the rush for resources and renewable energy are among the issues that have brought the sector to the attention of the public and investment communities.

This dynamic, evolving sector is under increasing scrutiny and intense competitive pressure. Many jurisdictions have adopted a more open and liberalised regulatory model. As a result, companies are seeking ever more innovative and practical advice from their lawyers.

International oil and gas companies, leading financial institutions, major utilities, sovereign wealth funds, private equity houses, government bodies and single asset operators come to Linklaters for insightful advice and fundamental understanding of their business, the markets in which they operate and the pressures they face.

Linklaters’ dedicated energy and utilities lawyers have peerless knowledge and experience, encompassing major transactions and regulatory advice in the global oil and gas, power, nuclear and renewables industries. They include specialists from Linklaters’ pre-eminent banking and finance, corporate/M&A, projects,EU/competition/regulatory, environment and planning, tax and structured financegroups.

Consistently ranked as a top tier law firm in this sector, Linklaters is one of the few firms to offer full global capabilities in this field. As a result we have acted on many of the most complex, multi-jurisdictional and cutting edge transactions in the market to date

The global team’s regular contact with listing authorities and regulators around the world enhances its wealth of experience and technical expertise in capital markets work. Leading financial institutions rely on Linklaters’ securities law service across the Euromarkets, the US capital markets, the Middle East and Asia and in the world’s emerging economies. The firm is at the forefront of the most complex and innovative issues in the international capital markets.

Global capital markets expertise at Linklaters covers equity, debt, regulatory capital and equity-linked (convertible and exchangeable) bond issues, structured financetransactions and the full range of derivative and securitised products. 

The team integrates innovative tax structuring expertise with the highest quality advisory skills to give clients a comprehensive cross-border tax service.

Over 120 Linklaters tax experts worldwide advise on all aspects of cross-border advisory and transactional tax matters. Particular fields of expertise include M&A and joint ventures, capital raising, tax based and structured finance, as well as real estate and investment funds.

In tax disputes, the contentious tax team is renowned for its creative approach to tax litigation. In 2008, for the third year out of four, the team’s expertise was recognised by the award of the title ‘European Tax Litigation Firm of the Year’ at the International Tax Review Awards.

Linklaters’ IP lawyers, many of whom have scientific and technical backgrounds, work closely with leading multinational companies to enforce and exploit their intellectual property rights. The team’s industry sector expertise includes a strong focus on healthcare, financial, telecoms and IT.

The team advises on national and international IP enforcement strategies for clients and defends their IP rights vigorously where necessary. Linklaters maximises the commercial value of clients’ IP assets and wards off unwelcome claims from third parties. Clients depend on the experience of Linklaters’ lawyers in major patent and trade mark litigation cases, often on a multi-jurisdictional basis.

Linklaters’ IP lawyers are widely acknowledged for their support of significant M&Aand capital markets deals, and on high-profile and complex corporate insolvencies. A substantial proportion of the team’s commercial workload therefore involves multi-jurisdictional issues.

The team also focuses on R&D, agency, distribution, franchising, sponsorship and other licensing agreements, as well as the related antitrust issues that arise.

Linklaters’ IP lawyers, many of whom have scientific and technical backgrounds, work closely with leading multinational companies to enforce and exploit their intellectual property rights. The team’s industry sector expertise includes a strong focus on healthcare, financial, telecoms and IT.

The team advises on national and international IP enforcement strategies for clients and defends their IP rights vigorously where necessary. Linklaters maximises the commercial value of clients’ IP assets and wards off unwelcome claims from third parties. Clients depend on the experience of Linklaters’ lawyers in major patent and trade mark litigation cases, often on a multi-jurisdictional basis.

Linklaters’ IP lawyers are widely acknowledged for their support of significant M&Aand capital markets deals, and on high-profile and complex corporate insolvencies. A substantial proportion of the team’s commercial workload therefore involves multi-jurisdictional issues.

The team also focuses on R&D, agency, distribution, franchising, sponsorship and other licensing agreements, as well as the related antitrust issues that arise.