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Leading the energy evolution.
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Helping you focus on what matters – improving human health.
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100+ years advising insurers and reinsurers. Troutman Pepper Locke delivers regulatory, transactional, litigation, insurtech, and cyber insurance counsel nationwide.
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Your go-to firm for middle-market private equity.
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Full-service legal advice from coast to coast.
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Applying radical applications of common sense
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Our standard-setting client experience program.
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Delivering life-changing help to those most in need.
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Our firm’s greatest asset is our people.
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Market-leading eDiscovery and data management services.
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The Pepper Center for Public Services
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Strategies helps businesses and individuals solve the complexities of dealing with the government at every level. Our team of specialists concentrate exclusively on government affairs, representing clients nationwide who need assistance with public policy, advocacy, and government relations strategies.
This unique program provides innovative and affordable opportunities to startups and early-stage emerging companies with a solid technology or scientific foundation. We help companies that have a quality management team in place and do not have other significant legal representation.
eMerge’s lawyers and technologists work together to deliver strategic end-to-end eDiscovery and data management solutions for litigation, investigations, due diligence, and compliance matters. We help clients discover the information necessary to resolve disputes, respond to investigations, conduct due diligence, and comply with legal requirements.
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Practice
Our M&A practitioners deliver practical, creative solutions and in-depth market and industry knowledge to help clients solve their toughest deal challenges. We are known for our client-centered approach, with clients praising our attorneys for understanding their business goals in national and cross-border transactions.
With offices in major financial centers across the United States and London, the firm has experience representing a diverse array of sophisticated public and private clients. Our clients include Fortune 500 corporations, middle-market companies, smaller businesses, and emerging entities. We also represent private equity sponsors, venture capital firms, lenders, investment banks, financial advisors, boards of directors, special committees, senior management, and significant shareholders.
We help structure, negotiate, and document acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, joint ventures, and other strategic alliances, both domestic and international. Our attorneys also help clients resist or prosecute hostile takeovers, proxy contests, and other unsolicited acquisition attempts. We work collaboratively with our veteran trial attorneys who have years of experience in handling high-stakes deals, including hostile bids.
Our services include:
Our M&A teams are deal-specific and staffed with practitioners in key areas such as corporate governance, securities, tax, intellectual property, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), antitrust, labor and employment (including executive compensation and employee benefits), regulatory, litigation, real estate, finance, bankruptcy, and environmental, among others.
We work closely with client leadership, in-house legal department personnel, and our clients’ outside advisors, providing advice during all phases of the transaction — from structuring the deal to conducting legal due diligence, negotiating and drafting transaction documents, assisting with regulatory approvals and third-party consents, closing the transaction, and addressing post-closing matters.
Our attorneys take a global view when advising clients on cross-border transactions, providing comprehensive advice that bridges legal systems, customs, languages, and terminology. We help ensure that our clients take advantage of commercial opportunities while navigating the complexities of the M&A landscape.
Mergers + Acquisitions Recognitions
Troutman Pepper Locke earns consistent recognition across Legal 500 USA for middle-market M&A, private equity buyouts, and emerging companies work. The firm ranks among the top 15 U.S. law firms for mid-market and small-cap M&A in LSEG’s global legal advisory league tables.
National Rankings
Best Law Firms® – Mergers and Acquisitions Law, National (2026)
Legal 500 USA – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500m), Nationwide (2022–2025)
Legal 500 USA – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts: Middle-Market (up to $500m), Nationwide (2024–2025)
Legal 500 USA – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies, Nationwide (2025)
Regional Rankings
Chambers USA ranks the firm in Corporate/M&A across Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina (Charlotte), Virginia (Southern), and Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). In Texas, the firm is ranked in Corporate/M&A: The Elite — Chambers USA’s top tier for M&A practices in the state — confirmed in 2026. The firm also holds Tier 1 rankings from Best Law Firms® in Dallas, Houston, and Rhode Island for Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2025).
League Table Recognition
LSEG Global M&A Mid-Market Legal Advisory, Q1 2026: U.S. Target Mid-Market #15 Ranked Firm
LSEG Global M&A Small-Cap Legal Advisory, Q1 2026: U.S. Target Small-Cap #13 Ranked Firm
LSEG Global Legal Advisory Review, Q1 2026: U.S. Target Announced AE2 (Number of Deals) #21 Ranked Firm
LSEG Global Legal Advisory Review, Q1 2026: U.S. Target Completed AG2 (Number of Deals) #21 Ranked Firm
Named Awards
The M&A Atlas Awards – Outstanding USA M&A Law Firm (2025)
The M&A Atlas Awards – USA Fintech Deal of the Year (2025)
The M&A Atlas Awards – USA Distressed M&A Deal of the Year (2025)
The M&A Atlas Awards – Outstanding M&A Law Firm (2025)
The M&A Atlas Awards – Americas Strategic M&A Deal of the Year (2025)
The M&A Atlas Awards – Canada M&A Deal of the Year (2025)
The M&A Atlas Awards – Private Equity Deal of the Year (2025)
The M&A Atlas Awards – U.S.A. Deal of the Year, Small Middle Markets (2024)
The M&A Atlas Awards – Retail & Services Deal of the Year (2024)
Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Houston – Products & Services Deal of the Year Award (2024)
The M&A Advisor – Turnaround Awards: Financial Deal of the Year (2024)
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Speaking Engagements
23rd Annual Energy Infrastructure CEO & Investor Conference
May 18-20, 2026
Aventura, FL
Podcasts
Strategic Alignment With Collaboration Is Essential to a Life Sciences M&A Exit
May 6, 2026
Sponsored Events
Troutman Pepper Locke Sponsors ACG’s DealMAX 2026 Conference
April 27 – 29, 2026
ARIA Resort & Casino
Las Vegas, NV
Firm News
Troutman Pepper Locke Maintains Strong Top 15 Standing for Q1 US M&A Activity
April 24, 2026
Leading the energy evolution.
Learn more
Staying ahead of financial services change.
Learn more
Helping you focus on what matters – improving human health.
Learn more
100+ years advising insurers and reinsurers. Troutman Pepper Locke delivers regulatory, transactional, litigation, insurtech, and cyber insurance counsel nationwide.
Learn more
Your go-to firm for middle-market private equity.
Learn more
Full-service legal advice from coast to coast.
Learn more
Applying radical applications of common sense
Explore More
Our standard-setting client experience program.
Explore more
Delivering life-changing help to those most in need.
Explore More
Our firm’s greatest asset is our people.
Explore More
Market-leading eDiscovery and data management services.
Explore more
The Pepper Center for Public Services
Explore more
Strategies helps businesses and individuals solve the complexities of dealing with the government at every level. Our team of specialists concentrate exclusively on government affairs, representing clients nationwide who need assistance with public policy, advocacy, and government relations strategies.
This unique program provides innovative and affordable opportunities to startups and early-stage emerging companies with a solid technology or scientific foundation. We help companies that have a quality management team in place and do not have other significant legal representation.
eMerge’s lawyers and technologists work together to deliver strategic end-to-end eDiscovery and data management solutions for litigation, investigations, due diligence, and compliance matters. We help clients discover the information necessary to resolve disputes, respond to investigations, conduct due diligence, and comply with legal requirements.
Stay ahead of the curve and in touch with our latest thinking on the issues that are top of mind across our practices and industry sectors.
Change happens fast in today’s turbulent world. Stay on top of the latest with our industry-specific channels.
Take a closer look at how we partner with clients to help them realize their goals.