Deal Management in M&A: Due Diligence and Planning Tools to Add Efficiency and Reduce Closing Costs

Mr. Kalogerou helps clients execute on their growth strategies by guiding them through complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures and alliances. He also assists early stage life science companies in their capital raising efforts. Mr. Kalogerou has extensive industry background in the life science, industrial and manufacturing sectors. He also acts as outside general counsel to a number of companies. Mr. Kalogerou is a legal project management pioneer and Co-Chair of the ABA Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions’ Task Force on Legal Project Management. He is co-editor of the ABA Guidebook “Using Legal Project Management in Merger & Acquisition and Joint Venture Transactions”, now in its third edition. Mr. Kalogerou also created the first-of-its-kind web-based collaborative deal management portal, which the firm adopted and embraced as part of Client Central.

Armed with more than 25 years of legal deal experience across a broad range of industries and having chaired one of the largest M&A membership associations in the world, Mr. White has a keen sense of what is "market" and what is achievable. He has represented emerging and mature companies, family businesses, private equity firms, venture capital firms, and sources of debt financing. His practice focuses on M&As and other transactions. Mr. White founded and co-chairs the ABA Task Force on Legal Project Management in M&A Transactions. The work of the Task Force resulted in the ABA's publication of a guidebook titled Using Legal Project Management In Merger and Acquisition Transactions, for which he served as co-editor. Mr. White was also a contributing author and a member of the Editorial Committee for the second edition of the ABA's Model Stock Purchase Agreement with Commentary, one of the ABA's most widely read and used business law publications. He is also a past Chairman of the Global Board of Directors of the Association for Corporate Growth, an M&A trade association with more than 14,000 deal community members in more than 50 chapters around the world. 

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