Jennifer Consiglio, a shareholder in Butzel Long's Business Law Department, focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financing, corporate governance, securities law compliance, securities offerings, and general corporate matters. She is based in the firm's Bloomfield Hills office.
Ms. Consiglio has extensive experience in representing buyers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions involving both public and private companies. She regularly advises companies and investors in venture capital and private equity financing transactions. Ms. Consiglio's practice also includes other complex transactional, corporate and securities matters, such as joint ventures and cross-border transactions, SEC compliance and reporting, public offerings and corporate governance. Her corporate finance experience includes IPOs, public "shelf" offerings and private placements of securities. Ms. Consiglio represents companies as general corporate counsel, providing advice in all aspects of corporate governance.
Ms. Consiglio is the co-chair of Butzel Long's Pro-Bono Committee and a member of the firm's Professional Development Committee, M&A Group and Investment Management Group. She is a contributor to the firm's Investment Management Electronic Newsletter. Ms. Consiglio is a member of the State Bar of Michigan Business Law Section and serves on its Law Schools Committee and Unincorporated Enterprises Committee.
Prior to joining Butzel Long, Ms. Consiglio was an associate in the Business Law Department of Goodwin Procter, LLP in Boston, Massachusetts. While in law school, she interned in the Fugitive Unit of the Office of International Affairs at the United States Department of Justice.
She is a graduate of The George Washington University Law School (J.D., with honors, Order of the Coif, 2000), where she was Executive Notes Editor of The George Washington University International Law Review, and Georgetown University (B.S. Foreign Service, cum laude, 1995).
Ms. Consiglio is a member of the Oakland County, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Michigan.
Experience
· Successfully closed a complex, $50 million private equity financing including a reincorporation merger and a myriad of difficult pre-closing transactions
· Represented health care consulting firm in its $25 million equity capitalization by private equity investors
· Represented a private equity investor in a complicated effort to purchase a major OEM's glass manufacturing operations in North America
· Represented global polymers manufacturer in acquisition of assets of major research and development corporation
· Assisted an international polymers manufacturer in numerous acquisitions of U.S. based companies
· Representation of health services company in reverse merger with a public company as means of going public.
News
Media Releases
06.27.11, Butzel Long attorneys Sean H. Cook and Jennifer E. Powell featured during Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants 2011 Mergers & Acquisitions Conference
06.09.11, Butzel Long receives Pro Bono Service Award from Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association
02.25.10, Butzel Long announces new shareholders
Publications
Client Alerts
12.23.11, Client Alert - Investment Management - SEC Adopts Final Dodd-Frank Definition of Accredited Investor
11.01.11, Client Alert - Investment Management - SEC Approves Form PF for Reporting by Private Fund Advisers
07.20.11, Client Alert - Investment Management - SEC Adopts Inflation Adjusted Definition of "Qualified Client" Under The Investment Advisers Act
07.05.11, Client Alert - Investment Management - SEC Adopts Significant Implementing Rules For Investment Advisers Under Dodd-Frank Act
11.29.10, E-news: Investment Management
07.23.10, E-news: Investment Management
07.12.10, E-news: Investment Management
03.01.10, Automation Alley Newsletter - SEC Approves Money Market Fund Reforms
02.08.10, E-news: Investment Management E-news - 02/08/2010
09.01.09, Automation Alley Newsletter - September 2009
08.11.09, E-news: Investment Management - 08/11/09
08.07.09, E-news: Investment Management - 08/07/09
02.20.09, E-news: Investment Management - February 20, 2009
08.01.08, E-news: Investment Management - August 1, 2008
07.23.08, E-news: Investment Management - July 23, 2008
07.21.08, E-news: Investment Management - July 21, 2008
02.19.08, Alert: Investment Management - February 2008
01.01.08, Alert: Investment Management - January 2008
Memberships
American Bar Association
Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
State Bar of Michigan
Oakland County Bar Association
(Resident, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Office)