Our Mission

Building on the foundation of our community—which consists of well over 16,000 practitioners—we provide valuable practical guidance and news on the latest M&A developments through the many resources on DealLawyers.com. This follows in the footsteps of our long-standing successful sister print publications—The Corporate Counsel and The Corporate Executive—that have served practical guidance to the community for over 40 years.

To accomplish our goal of serving the community, we list below eight reasons why you should join DealLawyers.com. We would expect our toughest member to demand these reasons—and we hope that they meet every member's needs.

1. Practical Guidance, Practical Guidance, Practical Guidance —When it comes to practical guidance, we know how badly you need it—and strive to provide it in each and every way with the content on our websites. Providing practical guidance is our mantra—and permeates everything we do.

2. Loads of Expert Advice—Through our entertaining "John Tales" blog, regular webcast programs and periodic podcasts, we reach out to the experts in our community—and have them share their insights on timely topics. The cornerstone of DealLawyers.com is the active advisory board, which provides its considerable expertise and wisdom to serve as speakers for these webcasts—to ensure they deal with the issues that are on everybody's mind (or should be!).

3. The Most Timely News—DealLawyers.com—with two M&A blogs!—is a treasure trove keeping abreast of the latest developments. Brief and to the point—with links to more information–the blog is among the most popular features of our website. We also post links to the latest regulatory guidance in our "Alerts" section.

4. Specialized Areas of Content—Even the best search engines rarely pull up the information you need, so we continue to build our "Practice Areas" so that you can find a host of resources on narrow discrete topics—all on one page. For example, if you are considering implementing (or dismantling) a poison pill—we have the relevant regulations, sample documents, and law firm memos that outline the applicable considerations. These are all accessible from one page.

5. Sample Document Library—For practical guidance, nothing can be more helpful as a starting point than to see how others have actually done it. We have leveraged our community concept to build a document database that is unsurpassed on the Web.

6. Interactive Q&A Forum—We have a discussion forum on our site—moderated by experts—to help answer your questions, on an anonymous basis or otherwise.

7. Deal U. Workshop—For those lawyers (or summer clerks) wanting to get a handle on the fundamentals, we provide an online "Deal U. Workshop." Learn from the experts about negotiation tactics, structuring techniques, disclosure and diligence issues and more—through a series of nearly 60 podcasts, series of three "education by entertainment" paperbacks—known as the "Deal Tales" books—and more than 30 situational scenarios with quizzes. Attendees get access to all these resources!

8. Litigation Corner—In one place, find the most recent—and relevant—court decisions that deal with M&A.

Our Mission: To Serve the M&A Legal Community