About EMEIA Law

EMEIA Law comprises more than 600 law professionals in 19 countries throughout EMEIA. As part of our multidisciplinary approach, Ernst & Young brings lawyers together with our other professionals to provide integrated, high-quality legal services that address our clients’ business issues. To help ensure that we provide appropriate advice relating to our clients’ business issues, we take an industry-focused approachsupported by lawyers who focus on one of three areas: Corporate Law, Transaction Law and Labor and Employment Law.

In today’s challenging business environment, many companies are taking advantage of changing markets to expand their businesses through acquisitions. Companies are also increasingly focused on maximizing the economies of scale that can result from acquisitions, by ensuring an efficient and effective post-acquisition/merger process.As transactions become more complex all the time, clients want to ensure that they get the advice and help they need to manage their transaction efficiently, effectively and with the lowest possible risk.

As part of the overall approach that Ernst & Young provides, our strategy is to deliver high-quality legal services by collaborating in multidisciplinary teams. Our Transaction Law professionals work with our Advisory and Transactions colleagues on M&A deals on a fully integrated basis.

We provide seamless advice across borders on both large public and private deals for a wide range of clients, from major international companies and private equity sponsors to midsized and family-owned businesses. Whatever the size of the deal, our clients benefit from the diversity of our experience in legal, advisory, tax and transactions.

Our Approach

Our approach to serving our clients includes a focus on specific industry sectors, togetherwith specific areas of legal advice.

Industry focus

In order to serve our clients effectively, it is important for us to understand our clients’ markets, their business aspirations and the challenges they face. This philosophy has driven our industry sector approach, where EMEIA Law professionals work as part of Ernst & Young’s multidisciplinary teams, focusing on specific industry sectors. This helps ensure that we provide our clients with advice that addresses issues of specific relevance to their industry. We focus on the following sectors: aviation, automobile, healthcare, life sciences, technology, private equity, oil and gas, power and utilities, finance and banking,government and public sector, and real estate.

Areas of legal advice

Within our Transaction Law practice, our lawyers provide a wide range of advice including:

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