Government Contracts
MLA’s transactional practice routinely works with the Firm's government contracts practice to represent clients operating in the federal space across the complete spectrum of business transactions, including those unique to companies that do work for the federal government. MLA’s corporate and government contracts attorneys have extensive experience working with government contractors to pursue, negotiate and close mergers and acquisitions, negotiate joint ventures, strategic alliances and teaming agreements, and pursue debt and equity securities offerings (both public and private). We have extensive experience structuring and negotiating public-private partnerships with various U.S. government, state and local agencies and authorities. In addition to the internal investigation work performed by the government contracts attorneys to ensure compliance with U.S. government contract specific requirements, we routinely organize and implement traditional internal corporate financial and ethical investigations. Our corporate and government contracts attorneys work in an integrated and interdisciplinary manner to advise clients on the special issues that affect government contractors, including with respect to due diligence matters, contract compliance and novation requirements, security clearance issues, and special representations and warranties, indemnities and other contractual provisions.
Representative Engagements
- Represented Lockheed Martin in its purchase (by merger) of Orincon Corporation International.
- Represented Fortune 500 company in the closing of its United Kingdom Public-Private Partnership project. The company and a United Kingdom defense contractor formed a joint venture to partner with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense on a program with an estimated value of $12 billion.
- Represented Balfour Beatty Communities in its acquisition of the Lackland (TX) AFB privatized housing project from the former developer, the restructuring of the project’s existing debt and the financing of a second phase.
- Represented Balfour Beatty Communities in the simultaneous acquisition of Leonard Wood Housing, LLC, the owner of a privatized Army family housing project, from a troubled developer and restructuring of the $200 million-plus bond financing for that project.
- Represented i2S, Inc., a provider of IT and operational support services to the federal intelligence community, in a management buy-out.
- Represented Global Analytic IT Services, Inc. in the sale of its federal intelligence division to DC Capital Partners.
- Represented The Avascent Group, a leading provider of strategy and management consulting services to global leaders in defense, aerospace, logistics, transportation, and high technology, in the management-led buyout of DFI Corporate Services.
- Represented Engineering Support Personnel, Inc., a provider of engineering and technical systems support to a diverse set of federal customers across the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Army, and Department of Energy, in the sale of the company to Pine Creek Capital Partners.
- Represented DTI Associates, Inc., a provider of engineering, technology, and professional services primarily to the United States government, in the sale of the company to Haverstick Consulting, Inc.