Our lawyers provide outstanding support for clients involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), working to complete transactions efficiently, expediently, and successfully. Leveraging our depth and breadth of experience across our platform, we identify opportunities and risks, offering advice geared to each client's goals and risk tolerance. Our team is creative and collaborative, focusing on execution of the business objectives of our diversified client base. We provide our clients with practical thinking, hands-on partners, and unfailing responsiveness.
Our M&A team counsels public and private companies of all sizes, as well as private equity and independent sponsors, on purchases and sales, buyouts, reorganizations, restructurings, and related financings. Collaborating with a full complement of colleagues who advise on tax, antitrust, securities, labor and employment, benefits, environmental, intellectual property, real estate, dispute resolution, and other law relevant to a specific transaction, we handle:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Asset dispositions and spinoffs
- Entity formation
- Joint ventures
- Leveraged buyouts
- Management buyouts
- Cross-border acquisitions
- Structuring tax-efficient transactions
- RWI policy negotiations
- Transaction financing
- Succession planning
We’ve structured, negotiated and closed hundreds of acquisitions and divestitures for clients across a wide range of industries, such as manufacturing, aerospace
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Stoel Rives represented EC Company (a.k.a. EC Electric) in its sale to E-J Group, one of the nation’s largest electrical contractors.
Acquisition of three successful solar and storage portfolios in the United States.
SiEnergy is a natural gas distribution utility that serves approximately 70,000 customers in Texas.
Lakefield co-founder Alexandre Desmarais and his family will remain the significant majority owners of the company.
Schréder is the leading independent provider of smart outdoor lighting solutions worldwide.
- Ackley Brands Acquires Betz, SUNU, and The Untold Story Brands and Inventory from Betz Family Winery
The deal follows Ackley Brands’ acquisition from E. & J. Gallo Winery of Columbia Winery and Hogue Cellars.
The acquisition adds two iconic Washington wine brands to Ackley Brands’ extensive beverage portfolio.
Deal will be financed with a combination of equity financing with investment funds and debt financing with a syndication of lenders.
Hampton Lumber is a fourth-generation, family-owned lumber and forest management company.
Acquisition will supply electricity to approximately 2,000 community solar subscribers.
United expects to add 106 locations and approximately 2,100 Ahern employees and 44,000 Ahern customers.
Transaction expands Altus’ presence in the Southeast and introduces new govt. and municipal entities into the Altus portfolio.
Purchase includes 33 projects comprising 2.7 GW of solar with 0.7 GW of paired storage and 2.6 GW of stand-alone battery storage.
After completion of business combination agreement with publicly traded SPAC Spring Valley, combined company will operate as NuScale Power Corporation and will be listed on the NYSE.
Tokyo-based Advantest is a global manufacturer of automatic test and measurement equipment used in the design and production of semiconductors.
Tenute del Mondo, co-owner with the Frescobaldi Family of several iconic wines, is a subsidiary of Stoli Group, the leading global ultrapremium spirits and wine company.
Idaho-based House of Design is a leading tech company that provides automated solutions to solve the needs of its customers in the building components and residential offsite construction industries.
The buyer plans to retain all the offices and employees.
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Corporate attorney Nick Gourley discusses the increasing use of representation and warranty (R&W) insurance in mergers and acquisitions as a way to manage post-closing risk and simplify negotiations. He notes that shifting market dynamics—such as cautious buyers, lower valuations, and expanding insurer participation in smaller deals—are driving this trend. Gourley encourages both buyers and sellers, particularly those newer to M&A, to engage counsel early and consider R&W insurance as a practical tool for achieving smoother, more predictable transactions.
Steve Boender, Partner and Corporate Practice Group Leader at Stoel Rives, offers a clear-eyed view of today’s M&A landscape—one increasingly shaped by buyer leverage, tighter valuations, and heightened diligence standards. He explains how sellers must focus on “corporate hygiene,” from clean records to properly executed contracts, to avoid deal-killing surprises. Boender emphasizes that preparation should begin well before a sale, particularly in an environment where buyers are more willing to walk away at the first sign of risk.
Duff Bryant explores how artificial intelligence is poised to reshape agribusiness and the lumber industry. In agribusiness, Bryant notes that while the physical nature of the work may seem resistant to change, AI will significantly streamline crop management, logistics, and overall production efficiency. Despite a historically slow adoption of AgTech, he sees AI strengthening the business case for modernizing agricultural operations.
Duff Bryant, Partner in the Corporate group, explains how market uncertainty is reshaping M&A dynamics and slowing deal timelines. He shares practical strategies for sellers to maintain leverage, including preparing thoroughly for diligence and creating competitive buyer interest. Bryant also emphasizes the importance of mental readiness to avoid deal fatigue and stay focused on long-term value.
EC Company Joins E-J Group, Expanding West Coast CapabilitiesStoel Rives represented EC Company (a.k.a. EC Electric) in its sale to E-J Group, one of the nation’s largest electrical contractors.
- ContourGlobal Acquires Standalone Solar PV and Hybrid Solar PV and Storage Portfolios
Acquisition of three successful solar and storage portfolios in the United States.
- NW Natural Holding Company Acquires SiEnergy Operating, LLC
SiEnergy is a natural gas distribution utility that serves approximately 70,000 customers in Texas.