Mergers and Acquisitions

Our corporate lawyers handle mergers and acquisitions of private as well as public companies involving both negotiated and unsolicited acquisitions, going private transactions and acquisitions of minority interests. Our lawyers have been involved in numerous M&A transactions, including some of the largest M&A transactions in Louisiana. Our recent M&A representations have been concentrated in the health care, telecommunications, oil services, banking and retail industries. Also see our Banking page for representative financial institution M&A transactions.

Representative Transactions

• Amedisys, Inc. (acquisition of HMR Acquisition, Inc.)
  
• Amedisys, Inc. (acquisition of SpectraCare Home Health Services, Inc.)
  
• ASCo Group PLC (acquisition of L&L Oil and Gas Services, Inc.; acquisition of Expediters and Production Service Company)
  
  
• Cross Offshore Corporation (sale of assets to Tetra Technologies, Inc.)
  
• Engineering Specialties, Inc. (acquisition by NATCO Group)
  
• Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital (acquisition by Tenet Healthcare Corp.)
  
• Gulf Coast Inspection International, Inc. (acquisition by Oceaneering International, Inc.)
  
• The Laitram Corporation (sale of Digicourse subsidiary)
  
• Louisiana Independent Physicians Association (acquisition by United Healthcare Inc.)
  
• Milliken & Michaels, Inc. (acquisition by HIG Corporation)
  
• National Tape Corp. (acquisition by Tyco, Inc.)
  
• Offshore Logistics, Inc., now Bristow Group Inc. (acquisition of Pueblo Airmotive, Inc.; acquisition of PAAN (Nigeria); helicopter acquisitions from Canadian Helicopter Corp. and Horizon Helicopter and related acquisition financing)
  
• PMO, Inc. d/b/a VITARX (acquisition by McKesson Specialty Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of McKesson Corporation)
  
• Reserve Communications & Computer Corp. (acquisition by CEA Capital Partners)
  
• Roper Industries (acquisition of Petrotech, Inc.)
  
• Scott, Sevin & Schaffer (acquisition by The Shaw Group)
  
• Shell Oil Company (acquisition of K/D Promix, L.L.C.; acquisition of Venice Energy Services)
  
• The Surgery Suite, Inc. (acquisition by Tenet Healthcare Corp.)
  
• US Unwired Inc. (acquisition of Georgia PCS Management, L.L.C.; acquisition of IWO Holdings, Inc.)
  
  
• US Unwired Inc. (acquisition by Sprint-Nextel Corporation)
  
  
• Westwood Corporation (acquisition of Tano Automation, Inc.)
  
• The Woodson Companies (acquisition by TransCoastal Marine Corporation)