Practice Areas & Industries: Parr Brown Gee & Loveless, A Professional Corporation

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Parr Brown’s Mergers and Acquisitions Team represents public and closely held companies on both the buy-side and the sell-side of the transaction.  The firm represents clients in a broad range of industries including medical and pharmaceutical, construction, intellectual property, aviation and mining. The firm’s services include helping clients with complex/strategic mergers, acquisitions, dispositions of businesses and their assets as well as leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, proxy contests, stock swaps, rollups, equity transactions, tender offers, asset exchanges, business restructuring, spin-offs, and legal due diligence for merger and acquisition targets.

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS 

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

The firm has particular experience completing transactions for the following industries:

Airline, Chemical, Retail, Telecommunications, Software, Information and Business Services, Manufacturing, Restaurants, Candy, Construction, Healthcare, Advertising, Mining, Medical, Electronics, Financial Services, Hospitality and Resorts, Broadcast Media

Services Available

Services include:

Mergers & Acquisitions 

• Design, planning and implementation strategies for both acquirers and potential acquisition targets in domestic and cross-border transactions.
• Structure of industry "roll-up" transactions.
• Representation of buyers and sellers in the sale and leveraged buyout of closely held businesses.
• Preparation of joint venture agreements and equity investments.

Commercial Financing

• Documentation and structure of commercial finance options.
• Asset-based loan transactions.
• Analysis and negotiation assistance to creditors and debtors in restructuring real estate and other asset based non-performing loans, leases and other financing vehicles.

Securities

• Registration, reporting, and compliance under federal and state securities laws and regulations.
• Privatization of public companies.

Employment

• Assistance with the employee benefit aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
• Consultation with respect to executive employment agreements, consulting agreements and change in control agreements.

Real Estate

• Counsel on the financial and tax benefits through structuring or restructuring ownership interests and debt in connection with real property transactions.
• Environmental aspects of business transactions including due diligence, environmental audits and title reviews.

Taxation

• Advice on taxation and tax planning under state and federal laws for acquisitive and divisive reorganizations
• Guidance on taxable asset and stock sales.
• Tax advice on leveraged buy outs and acquisitions through joint venture entities.
• Assistance with restructuring partnership capital and debt.
• Assistance with partnership real estate transactions.

Clients:
SkyWest, Inc., Kinross Gold, Nature's Sunshine Products, Merit Medical Systems, Sports Capital Partners, Workers Compensation Fund, Huntsman International, Altair Nanotechnologies