Mergers and acquisitions combine companies or assets through a merger, an acquisition, or an asset purchase. The transaction documents matter, but much of the deal turns on diligence. A buyer wants to know exactly what it is taking on, including every risk and obligation. When a seller hands over records on a rolling basis, the timeline slows and the buyer may start to wonder what else has not been shared.
The companies that close cleanly do the work early. They organize their commercial contracts, their entity structure and governance, and their intellectual property well before a deal is on the table. Whether the next step is venture capital financing or a sale, the preparation looks the same. We help you build that record in advance, so when a buyer or investor asks, the answer is already on file. This is the kind of groundwork that can shorten a timeline and reduce the back-and-forth that often stalls a close.
TKA brings Wall Street M&A experience to companies scaling toward investment, partnership, and exit. That background sets the standard for how the firm works a deal: the same diligence a major buyer runs, applied to your company before any offer is on the table. As your fractional general counsel, TKA keeps that record current between matters, so the company stays deal-ready whenever the opportunity arrives.
Representative M&A Experience
TKA’s M&A experience draws on transactions including:
- The Walt Disney Company in its $10.6 billion sale of 21 Regional Sports Networks and Fox College Sports to Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
- Pitney Bowes Inc. in the $700 million sale of its Software Solutions business to Syncsort
- Dataxu, Inc. in its $150 million sale to Roku, Inc.
- WeWork Companies Inc. in its purchase of Prolific Interactive LLC