Practice Areas & Industries: Roetzel & Andress, A Legal Professional Association

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Our Mergers & Acquisitions attorneys at Roetzel & Andress represent a wide range of businesses in a variety of geographical and industry markets. They are sensitive to the business realities and risks that our clients face with their legal matters. During the negotiation and drafting of the documents for a transaction, we integrate the firm's multidisciplinary capabilities to create an appropriately tailored transaction for our clients. Our objective is to advise our clients of the risks that they face and reach for resolutions that accommodate their concerns.

Our clients include publicly-traded and closely-held businesses, private equity investors, management groups, banks and financial institutions, governmental entities, entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations, including hospitals and universities. We represent a wide range of sectors, such as polymers, robotics, medical services, restaurants, information services, steel processing, automotive manufacturing, real estate, and transportation. The comprehensive scope of our practice and our extensive experience enables us to effectively tailor our representation to the needs of each client, offer solutions to complex and routine legal and business issues, and provide access to a network of resources.

Services Available

• Letters of intent
• Legal structuring of the transaction
• Provide tax advice and planning opportunities for taxable and tax free transactions
• Buy-side and sell-side due diligence (including creating and maintaining secured electronic data rooms)
• Negotiation and drafting of acquisition documents
• Negotiation and drafting of ancillary agreements and documents, including earn outs, consulting agreements, and other documents relating the parties post-closing relationship

Representative Matters

• Represented a $350 million company selling a vinyl extrusion division
• Represented a publicly held $350 million aluminum sheet manufacturer
• Represented a privately held $100 million steel processor acquired by a publicly held company
• Represented a privately held $75 million aircraft parts manufacturer in the purchase of an aircraft interior manufacturing company
• Represented a privately held $50 million information services company in the sale to a privately-held company
• Represented a growing engineering firm in a series of mergers and acquisitions of smaller firms throughout the west coast of Florida
• Represented a management team that purchased a cardboard recycling facility from a multinational corporation for $22 million
• Represented a privately held $20 million wire products manufacturer in the sale to a large privately held manufacturing conglomerate
• Represented a privately held financial services company in merger with subsidiary of publicly traded company as part of a national roll-up and with a post-closing management agreement for continuation of the target's business by the prior owners
• Represented a $10 million molded rubber products manufacturer in its sale to a privately-held company
• Represented a privately-held $10 million mail order catalog business sold to a privately-held company
• Represented a privately-held manufacturing company in the sale of its assets for $23 million (including five-year earn out)
• Represented two related entities in $10 million merger with a publicly held company, as part of a multiple-stage roll-up
• Represented publicly held holding company of a national banking association that acquired through a $15 million, multi-stage merger with the publicly held holding company of a federally chartered savings and loan association
• Represented a privately held company in a $22 million recapitalization
• Represented a privately held $25 million company in the acquisition of industrial equipment for $6 million from the U.S. Trustee for several related entities in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
• Represented a subsidiary of a $1 billion publicly held company in the acquisition of industrial camera assets for $2.4 million
• Represented a privately held gas supply company in the disposition of its residential and industrial customer base and related inventory to a large gas utility company for $10 million
• Represented a subsidiary of a $1 billion publicly held company in the acquisition of bulk conveyance assets for $1.2 million
• Represented a privately held company that acquired a $2.4 million equity position in a Chinese entity
• Represented a privately held company that acquired a $1 million equity position in a Brazilian entity
• Represented selling shareholders in a $20 million management buyout of a privately held lumber company
• Represented a privately held company in a $16 million acquisition and subsequent sale of 15 operating hotels
• Represented a privately held company in a $4.5 million sale of a scrap tire transportation and recovery business