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Biotech Company – Recapitalization

We assisted a development-stage company requiring a capital infusion in order to pursue its business expansion plan. The company was challenged after its capital structure was overly complicated to prior financing and grants of equity to managers and scientists, several of whom were no longer employed by the company.

Our solution was to bring in new capital from private equity investors. We simplified the capital structure of the company through a recapitalization, in which several series of preferred stock and convertible debt were exchanged for newly created series of preferred stock. Following this recapitalization, the company obtained new financing and has continued to grow according to its business plan.

Engineering Company – Business Succession

The founding shareholders of the company had reached retirement age and sought a plan of succession that would transfer ownership to its next generation of managers. We devised a plan under which this next generation acquired a relatively small number of shares of stock from the founding shareholders. At the same time, the founding shareholders agreed to have their shares periodically redeemed by the company, over the next several years.

At the conclusion of this series of redemptions, the founding shareholders will no longer own any shares, and the next generation’s shareholdings will constitute ownership of all issued and outstanding shares of the company.

Trade Company – Intra-Family Plan of Succession

We assisted a family-owned plumbing business with a succession plan that involved the transfer of ownership from the majority-owning father to his son. We facilitated constructive negotiation and resolution of difficult and delicate issues relating to the valuation of the business and terms of payment for the father’s controlling shares. Our solution involved preparing a declaration of revocable trust for the father, into which he placed his shares of stock in the business. In accord with this instrument, upon his death, his son would have the option of acquiring the shares.

In addition, the father wished to give his son the opportunity to purchase his shares at a negotiated price upon his retirement. We prepared a conditional stock purchase agreement for this purpose. Under this agreement, if the father lives to his retirement, he must revoke the contribution of his shares to the trust and sell them to his son according to the specified terms.

Hospital Supplies Distribution Business – Sale

We represented the sellers of a Pennsylvania-based medical supply distribution company, with facilities located in other states, to a national strategic buyer. We have since gone forth to represent the sellers in further business acquisitions and to provide ongoing general counsel services.

Car Wash Businesses – Buy and Sale

We represented a Pennsylvania-based business whose customers owned or leased a building out of which they desired to operate a car wash. Our client designed and created the specifications for the complete wash line, acquired and installed equipment, acquired and stocked supplies, and otherwise did everything necessary to offer its customers a turn-key car wash facility.

Thereafter, our client provided service and supplies to those customers. During the course of our representation, our client acquired similar businesses in two other states. Subsequently, we represented the client in the sale of the business to a private equity firm.

Purified Drinking Water Bottling Company – Buy

We represented this client in its acquisition and subsequent operation of a purified drinking water bottling facility. This complex transaction involved the purchase of the assets of the bottling business by one of the buyer’s entities, as well as the purchase of the real estate on which the bottling facility was built by another buyer entity. In addition, the acquisition was financed by a bank, which necessitated a separate financing transaction along with the two transactions.

Chiropractic Practice Expansion

This client, a professional corporation, operates a thriving chiropractic practice. Throughout the course of our representation, we have assisted with the admission of a new partner and potential successor in interest to the majority owner and negotiated, prepared, and implemented revised bylaws, a shareholders’ agreement, and employment agreements. We handled the creation of an affiliated entity as well, under which the practice added a medical doctor, providing a far more comprehensive range of services to its patients.

International Consultants – Buy/Sell Agreement

We assisted the partners of a successful, worldwide consulting practice with a complex and detailed buy/sell agreement in connection with bringing back a former founder of the practice as an equity owner.

Seller and Buyer Side Asset and Stock Sales

We represented the sellers of a family-owned business in which the matriarch of the family oversaw the management and operation of the business by her son and daughter. When the son developed an innovative and powerful technology related to, but outside of the company’s core competencies, it became an attractive target for a strategic purchaser.

In addition to the usual and customary role of the seller’s counsel in this transaction, we invested a considerable amount of additional time and attention in managing the process to meet the seller’s expectations and in allaying their concerns and anxiety about managing and successfully completing the transaction.

These are just a few examples of the matters we are regularly called on for assistance. For more information about our service read What Our Clients Say.