
Representative
Transactions

Overview
Structured, negotiated, managed, and consummated (either as a CEO, investment banker or lawyer) nearly every form of corporate transaction, with collective transaction value in excess of $5 billion, including corporate reorganizations, leveraged and management buyouts, mergers-of-equals, tender offers, leveraged recapitalizations, joint ventures, going private acquisitions, venture capital transactions, hedge fund formations, and public offerings of debt and equity securities.

Mergers &
Acquisitions
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Represented a water filtration company in connection with $25 million sale to Catterton Partners, LP, a leading private equity firm
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Represented a regional broadcasting company in several radio station acquisitions, dispositions, venture capital and bank financings and debt restructurings
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Represented a multi-national food processor and distributor in its acquisition of the third largest Mexican orange juice processor
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Represented a private equity fund in connection with strategic acquisitions
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Represented The UniMark Group, Inc. in strategic corporate acquisitions and divestitures
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Represented a merchant banking firm in a $15 million leveraged buy-out of a manufacturing company
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Represented a public healthcare company in its divestiture of various hospitals
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Represented a venture capital firm in its $300 million acquisition of fast-food restaurant chain
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Represented a family office in connection with its leverage buyout of Southland Corporation
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Represented Hicks & Muse in connection with multiple private equity fund portfolio company acquisitions

Restructurings & Reorganizations
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Represented Hicks Broadcasting Corporation in restructurings out-of-bankruptcyits senior and mezzanine debt out-of-bankruptcy
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The UniMark Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries in restructuring out-of-bankruptcy in excess of $50 million defaulted secured and unsecured debt held by multiple lenders
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Represented a large healthcare company in restructuring its high-yield publicly-held debt
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Advised a junior mining company in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and resulting Section 363 sale
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Represented an investment bank in connection with a recapitalization of a publicly-traded coal mining company
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Advised 1K1V, a private equity fund, in acquiring and restructuring debt held by bankrupt creditors involved in multiple insolvency proceedings
Corporate Finance
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Represented DSC Communications Corporation, a telecommunications switch manufacturer, in its $75 million convertible debt offering
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Represented Hartman Management LP in connection with a $130 million “roll-up” transaction of numerous limited partnerships into a real estate investment trust
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Represented Smith Barney and Alex Brown in the $47 million convertible exchangeable preferred stock offering of Wolverine Exploration Company
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Represented NetWorth, Inc. in its $26 million initial common stock offering underwritten by Robertson, Stephens & Company
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Represented The UniMark Group, Inc. in its $14.9 million private placement of common stock to an affiliate of Soros Fund Management LLC
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Represented Santa Fe Gold Corporation in connection with a $13 million convertible debt financing by a British Virgin Island investor
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Represented The UniMark Group, Inc. in a public rights offering with existing shareholders
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Represented Sabre Capital Management in connection with the institutional private placement of convertible debentures issues by public company
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Represented The UniMark Group, Inc. in several international banking agreements with Rabobank (Nederland) in excess of $40 million
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Represented The UniMark Group, Inc. in its $29 million secondary common stock offering underwritten by Rodman & Renshaw, Inc. and Rauscher Pierce Refsnes, Inc.
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Represented The UniMark Group, Inc. in its $6.6 million initial public offering underwritten by Toluca Pacific Securities Corporation and Dillon-Gage Securities, Inc.
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Represented Dillon-Gage Securities, Inc. in a secondary offering of common stock of Lancer Corporation
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Represented Smith Barney in the $21 million initial common stock offering of Amtech Corporation, a manufacturer of radio frequency electronic identification technology
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Represented EPIC Healthcare company in its $115 million junk bond financing underwritten by Goldman Sachs
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Represented Smith Barney in the $32 million common stock offering of a Wolverine Exploration Company