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Mergers & Acquisitions

Location: United States
Experience Type: Forage Virtual Work Experience
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Advise our clients on a potential takeover offer with our Mergers & Acquisitions team.

Are you interested in helping clients overcome complex and high-profile challenges? In joining a collaborative, team-focused culture spread around the world? In doing some of the best work of your life in an environment that encourages you to be you? 

Our virtual job simulation gives you a chance to learn more about our firm and the type of work we do. It’s part of our ongoing effort to develop and offer meaningful mentoring and training to our lawyers as well as to those just starting their legal careers. 

It begins with you! 

Learn more about our M&A Practice here → 

This program was created by Latham & Watkins as an educational tool. The information contained on this platform should not be construed as legal advice. Should further analysis or explanation of the subject matter be required, please contact the lawyer with whom you normally consult. The invitation to contact is not a solicitation for legal work under the laws of any jurisdiction in which Latham lawyers are not authorized to practice.

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 3-4 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

  • Kick-off the transaction
    Get started in Project Reno, a high-stakes M&A transaction, by reviewing an NDA and preparing your client’s negotiating position on key drafting changes.

    • NDA Review
    • Problem Identification
    • Contract Negotiation
  • Review the customer agreement
    Using AI in the due diligence process, analyze three key customer contracts and consider their implication on the drafting of the Merger Agreement.

    • Contract Review
    • Contract Analysis
    • Document Structuring
  • Offer shareholder advice
    Provide urgent advice to the client’s board regarding the emergence of a new bidder in the transaction.

    • Commercial Law
    • Client Communication
    • Regulatory Advisory
  • Negotiate the transaction
    Prepare a presentation to the Board summarizing the key mechanics of the earn-out provisions as contained in the Sale & Purchase Agreement.

    • Board Advisory
    • M&A Analysis
    • Client Presentation
  • Finish Line

Experience Information

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Contact & Location

Phone
860-685-2180
Email
careercenter@wesleyan.edu
Website
http://careercenter.wesleyan.edu
Address

Boger Hall
41 Wyllys Avenue
Middletown, CT 06459

Career Service Hours

M Monday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
T Tuesday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
W Wednesday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
TH Thursday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
F Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Meet the Team

Sharon Belden Castonguay
Executive Director, Gordon Career Center
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Rachel Munafo
Director of Operations
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Holly Robinson
Business Career Advisor
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Ladd Flock
Associate Director of Career Advising (Science & Mathematics - STEM)
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Pam Grande
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Camille McGadney
Law and Social Impact Career Advisor
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Emma Czarnecki
Career Advisor
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Yashoda Sharma
Health Professions & Life Sciences Career Advisor
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Sarah McNamara
Associate Director for Employer Relations
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Tess Hamilton-Ward
Assistant Director of Employer Relations
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Allison Soden
Associate Director for Campus Employment
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Cruz Cruz
Assistant Director for Campus Employment
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Anne Santaniello
Associate Director for Alumni Career Programs
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Darwin Pappas-Fernandes
Health Professions Administrative Assistant
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Ali McFadzen
Administrative Assistant
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