Business Restructuring

Business Restructuring Practice Group (BRPG)

For several decades, Littler attorneys have helped clients and their advisors develop the strategy and structure for many types of corporate transactions from mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs to bankruptcies, plant closings and outsourcing, including some of the largest deals in the industries involved.

Our experience gives us the rare ability not only to quickly identify the often overlooked employment and labor law risks in the transaction and the most efficient means to eliminate or minimize those risks, but also seek out unique opportunities to add value so that the operations involved in the transaction can yield the greatest return to our clients.

Every day, Littler’s BRPG attorneys use their experience and knowledge to help clients meet their business objectives, such as:

• minimizing risks
• favorably restructuring deal components;
• identifying and resolving important, but often overlooked, human relations and management culture issues;
• preparing for and lawfully implementing reductions in force (RIFs);
• performing deal-related HR and employment law due diligence; and
• partnering with human resource professionals to ensure that post-closing initiatives are implemented.

We can also spot situations where there are opportunities to leverage the dynamics of a transaction to significantly improve labor relations, productivity and employment costs in a business with a history of underperforming operations.

Whether it’s an under-funded pension plan burrowed deep into a multibillion-dollar merger or a pending employment litigation, an unidentified significant risk of employment litigation, or potential union liability that may derail a deal from closing, our attorneys have the experience and knowledge to quickly identify and resolve the outstanding employment, labor, or benefits issues that may be crucial to a successful acquisition, merger, reorganization, downsizing, carveout, or other corporate transaction.

To learn more about the Firm's capabilities and experience contact your Littler attorney or the BRPG Group Chairs:

Gerald T. Hathaway
Robert C. Long