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What investment screening has done to cross-border deal timelines
Screening regimes rarely block transactions. They reprice them, by moving the critical path from negotiation to consent sequencing.
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Managing Partner
Carve-outs, joint ventures, and the governance arrangements that hold them together afterward.
Helena Vosberg advises boards and controlling shareholders on transactions that change what a company is: carve-outs of divisions that have run themselves for decades, joint ventures between competitors who will still be competitors afterward, and the negotiated separations that follow when those arrangements stop working.
She has led the firm since 2019. Her practice did not stop when she took the role, which was a condition of her accepting it; she continues to run two or three significant transactions a year on the view that a managing partner who no longer practices soon stops understanding what the firm is asking of its lawyers.
Clients tend to bring her the deals with an unresolved question at the center — a valuation nobody can defend, a regulator who has not yet been approached, a family shareholder who has not agreed to anything. She is direct about which of those problems must be solved before signing and which can be documented and lived with.
Representative Matters
A specialty materials division across nine countries, sold to a private capital buyer with sixty percent of its operations still running on the parent's systems.
A sponsor-led secondary in which the conflicts process was settled before the transaction was announced rather than defended after it.
Thirty-one shareholders, four of whom worked in the business, and a governing document written in 1974.
A departure that had to be announced, a covenant that had to be enforced, and a business that had to keep its clients through both.
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Contact Helena Vosberg
Write to helena.vosberg@marloweandsterling.com or call +1 (212) 555-0143. Please describe the matter in general terms and name the parties involved so we can run a conflicts check before discussing anything substantive.