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Sound advice for all stages of your business's life – from starting up through growth and maturation to exit strategies. I preemptively help companies identify and manage opportunities and risks inherent in operating their businesses so that they are best positioned to maximize value.--Practice Areas--Mergers and Acquisitions: structuring transactions, including private equity buyouts and venture capital financing; tax structuring; negotiating and drafting letters of intent; preparing stock and asset purchase and merger agreements; advising boards on fiduciary duties; preparing regulatory filings, including CFIUS and Hart-Scott-Rodino filingsSecurities and Capital Markets: public and private stock offerings of debt and equity securities; change-in-control transactions; joint ventures; state and federal securities law compliance; corporate governance and fiduciary duties compliance; anti-takeover planning; SEC and SRO exchange mattersEntity Formation, Corporate Governance, & Succession Planning: tax-efficient entity selection, formation, and restructuring (Down-Streaming Value); inclusive creation and modification of governance and ownership structures, including equity transfer restrictions, preemptive rights, minority equityholder rights and obligations, restrictive and prescriptive covenants, through buy-sell agreements, close corporation agreements, voting agreements or other agreements among equityholders to maintain appropriate control; board policies and procedures; and D&O insurance and indemnification agreementsDown-Streaming Value: utilization of estate planning techniques to ensure efficient use of current tax exemption amounts, including creation of one or more classes of equity to maximize valuation discounts for gifting and appropriately timing transfers to irrevocable gift trusts (IGTs) and grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) and sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs) before a potential liquidation eventAdmitted in Ohio (SD & ND & 6th Cir.), Kentucky (ED) and the District of Columbia

Listed skills include Corporate Law, Legal Writing, Litigation, Mergers And Acquisitions, and 8 others.

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  Business Attorney

  Calfee, Halter & Griswold Llp

  May 2014 - Present - Cincinnati Area

  Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP is a full-service, corporate law firm with attorneys located in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, New York and Washington, D.C. As a founding member of Lex Mundi, we also offer international representation through a network of independent law firms with 22,000 attorneys in more than 125 countries.Since 1903, it’s been Calfee’s continuing commitment to be extremely accessible and responsive; to approach each situation with an entrepreneurial spirit; to invest time to understand each client’s particular circumstances; to provide creative solutions; and to focus our talent and resources on results that make a difference for our clients. Our lawyers routinely represent a wide spectrum of private and public organizations – from emerging companies to Fortune 500 corporations – as well as government entities, non-profit organizations, trade associations and individuals. Calfee is consistently ranked one of the top law firms in Ohio and continues to receive recognition, both nationally and regionally, from a number of leading industry publications.