Companies and general counsel looking to do mergers, acquisitions and other transactions in the international marketplace need to surround themselves with lawyers and advisers who know the target area’s laws, language, culture and business norms, according to four experts.

DelMorgan & Co., a financial services firm based in Santa Monica, California, sponsored a webinar Thursday that looked at the key difficulties in cross-border transactions. It featured corporate law partner Jason Kim, from the Los Angeles office of Blank Rome; Mark McNeill, a London-based partner in Shearman & Sterling’s international arbitration group; David Forst, international corporate tax partner in the San Francisco area office of Fenwick & West; and, Neil Morganbesser, president of DelMorgan & Co.