Described as a “Top 30” global law firm by The Lawyer Global 100, Hogan & Hartson has a full complement of lawyers in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia who regularly advise multinational corporations and international investors on cross-border business transactions. Through our offices across the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, our lawyers structure, negotiate, and implement complex cross-border acquisitions, tender offers, joint ventures, private equity investments, strategic investments, and commercial contracting relationships for our clients around the world. We also handle equity and debt financing and complex project and structured finance transactions across the globe and in virtually every industry.

Working with our tax, antitrust, IP, and regulatory partners around the world, Hogan & Hartson lawyers not only structure, negotiate, and document these transactions, but we see them through to completion. We work closely with our colleagues who have extensive experience in competition, international tax, employment, intellectual property, securities, cross-border investment controls (including Exon-Florio/CFIUS in the U.S. and corresponding requirements in France, Germany and elsewhere), export licensing, pharmaceutical and medical devices, procurement law―including U.S. Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) regulations―energy, immigration, and international arbitration to offer clients the broad resources of our firm to complete sophisticated cross-border transactions.

Hogan & Hartson has an established strategic alliance with Stonebridge International L.L.C., a global strategy firm founded by former firm partners Samuel R. Berger and Anthony Harrington. Stonebridge International assists companies in solving market access problems; providing risk assessment and analysis of business opportunities abroad; breaking government log-jams; developing and helping execute growth strategies; building new business relationships around the world; and increasing the international profile of companies and their management. 

Hogan & Hartson lawyers regularly serve as lead counsel in these transactions, identifying and coordinating all relevant facets of the issue, as well as the legal issues that can arise in common law and civil law countries.

Representative Experience

• We have successfully handled many large cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures in many industries, including high-profile European investments and joint ventures in the U.S. aerospace and satellite industries, one of the largest merger and acquisition transactions to date in Central and Eastern Europe, one of the largest private-public ventures in South American history, and hotel investments around the world by an internationally renowned Middle Eastern investor.
• We have handled international aircraft sales and financing transactions, including the transaction designated by Trade Finance magazine as the “Deal of the Year” in 2002.  
• We have successfully handled many global strategic and financial investments, including a $1.2 billion investment by a British client in the German media industry and an equally significant investment in the Italian media industry by a well-known international investor.
• We have handled many international securities offerings, including the multi-billion dollar “flip” of News Corporation into an American company.
• Handling one of the most significant oil and gas merger and acquisition transactions in Central Europe to date, we acted for MOL Hungarian Oil & Gas Plc in its successful acquisition of a 25% plus one share stake in Croatia’s state-owned INA for $505 million.
• We handled Saban Capital Group’s acquisition of 72% of the voting shares of ProSiebenSat.1, Germany's largest private television group, for €525 million ($667 million).

• Alcatel Space
• British Sky Broadcasting
• Corning Incorporated
• European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS)
• Gemplus International S.A.
• Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited
• Havas
• Jet Airways (India)
• Lufthansa
• Saban Capital Group
• The News Corporation Limited