CORPORATE COUNSELING

• Advising corporate clients on business matters, including entity formation, maintenance and mergers, partnership and joint venture matters, shareholder and related agreements, phantom stock plans, and other incentive programs.
• Advised on the formation and operation of airline fuel consortia located at airports throughout the United States including Boston, Chicago (ORD), Washington Dulles, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle-Tacoma.
• Represented an airline fuel consortia on corporate, contract, financing, other matters.
• Represented Ms. Billie Jean King in corporate, contract, and nonprofit matters.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

• Negotiated an $80 million acquisition of an architecture firm.
• Negotiated acquisitions of engineering services firms with values ranging from $5 million to $90 million.
• Negotiated the sale of a Colorado state bank to a national bank.
• Counseled a media company in its acquisitions totaling nearly $800 million.
• Negotiated a $2 billion cable system exchange agreement.
• Advised an Australian mining company on its acquisition of a Nevada gold mine from a Canadian company.
• Handling negotiation and documentation of venture capital investments.
• Negotiated a joint venture agreement with a United Kingdom company to operate $350 million plant.
• Represented an international design, consulting, engineering and management services company in negotiating its acquisition of a program and project management consulting firm.

FINANCING

• Issuance of tax-exempt bonds to finance fuel system construction at Boston International Airport in the amount of $107 million, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the amount of $100 million, and at San Francisco International Airport in the amount of $125 million, and refunding of bonds at Los Angeles International Airport in the amount of $29,620,000 and $64,095,000.
• Issuance of $61 million Senior Notes to finance fuel system construction at Oakland International Airport and $27 million Senior Notes to finance fuel system construction at San Jose International Airport.
• Negotiated foreign financings including €80 million syndicated secured bank facility for a European borrower group of chemical manufacturer, €285 million high-yield bond offering for European chemical manufacturer, and DM 1.6 billion ($900 million+) syndicated multi-country (Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Norway, France, Canada, and United States) financing.
• Represented a manufacturing company in its $90 million asset-based financing.
• Negotiated the $1.1 billion syndicated secured financing for an Argentinean cable company.
• Negotiated a $437.5 million public senior secured and discount notes offerings.
• Negotiated a standby letter of credit facilities and interest rate swap agreements.