Business Transfers within Technology and Media
- Bringing together experience and commercial insight
A complicated affair
As technology and licensing become increasingly important for many businesses, buying and selling technology or media businesses is made more and more complicated by the existence of underlying technology or licensing contracts. The result is that industry insight and market knowledge are critical factors in creating effective and value-adding negotiations and due diligence processes for business transfers and investments within technology and media.
Kromann Reumert's Mergers & Acquisitions Technology and Media Group advises buyers and sellers of businesses of all sizes located in Denmark and abroad, as well as investors, banks and other business transfer financiers. Our Mergers & Acquisitions Technology and Media Group is recognized for its expertise in technology and media transactions. Our lawyers have insight into technology and intellectual property matters and will quickly be able to gain an overview of a target company.
Our assistance is always based on respect for the parties' unique characteristics, goals and needs, and we combine our legal knowledge with experience gained through many years of working in this specialist area. Having been involved in a large number of venture investments, medium and small-sized business acquisitions, as well as almost every major transaction in the technology and media industries for the past few years, Kromann Reumert has expertise in all aspects of the transaction process - from preparation right through to completion.
Coupled with unsurpassed expertise in broadcasting, media and information technology, our experience enables us to provide precise and commercially useful advice. We also frame our assistance to acknowledge and address any market overlap with other areas.
Not only about the law
A business transfer or investment is not only about law. Nor is it simply about technical data or bottom-line results. We provide cutting-edge, industry-focused legal advice, realising that a legal adviser's role in any business transfer is to cooperate closely with the client, the client's advisers, and also with the other party and its advisers. At the same time, we recognise that a business transfer or investment may affect many people’s everyday lives.
Our advice to investors, buyers and sellers is firmly grounded in the law applicable to the specific transaction. But we also place great emphasis on commercial insight and human understanding.
Our assistance is not only aimed at implementing solutions suggested by others. We make a critical assessment of the legal and commercial advantages and disadvantages behind options. We can help clients consider issues such as the contemplated transaction structure, the hedging strategy or alternative sources of financing. Our clients can rely on us to act as valuable sparring partners throughout the entire transaction process.
Kromann Reumert’s Mergers & Acquisitions Technology and Media Group assist in:
- trimming the business for a sale (adjustment of group structure etc.)
- identifying outside circumstances that may affect the transfer or investment
- choosing the transaction structure
- structuring the transaction process
- drafting documents which will later form the basis for the transaction,
for example:
• non-disclosure agreements
• letters of intent
• transfer or investment agreements
• guarantee catalogues
• shareholders' agreements
• due diligence reports
• various relevant corporate documents
• management and key employees agreements
• incentive programmes, etc.