She has advised clients in a variety of corporate transactions, both on the buy-side and sell-side, including stock and asset purchases, mergers and joint ventures. She represents a wide range of companies of all sizes in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, financial, agricultural, medical, accounting and private investment funds. Her experience ranges from lower- to upper-middle-market corporate transactions. Margaret is involved in all aspects of business planning, including business formation, ownership structure, day-to-day business matters and contract preparation and negotiation.
Beyond corporate transactions, she represents lenders and borrowers in the context of both secured and unsecured financing transactions. Margaret has advised clients in various finance transactions, including acquisition financing, asset-based lending, cash-flow based lending, real estate secured loans, credit facilities and construction loans.
Some of Margaret’s recent corporate transactional work includes the following matters:
- Represented an investment firm in its acquisition of ten machinery businesses throughout the northeast region, all occurring on the same day.
- Represented a national private healthcare management company in the $55 million sale of all of the company’s membership units to a private equity company.
- Represented a national fitness corporation in the $10 million sale of all of its assets.
- Represented an investment firm in the acquisition of an east coast audio visual company.
- Represented a national aquatic services corporation in the acquisitions of multiple aquatic services companies.
- Represented an investment firm in the acquisition of a machinery business with multiple locations throughout the northeast region in excess of $30 million.
- Represented an investment firm in the $19 million acquisition of a construction equipment business with multiple locations throughout the northeast region.
- Represented a brokerage and consulting firm in the $20 million sale of all of its assets to a national insurance brokerage.
- Represented an engineering company in the sale of all of its assets, including patented processes.
- Represented an investment firm in the $10 million acquisition of a construction equipment business with multiple locations throughout the northeast.
- Represented members of a Midwest-based toxicology testing and research laboratory in the sale of all of the company’s membership interests to a global laboratory corporation in excess of $65 million.
- Represented an investment firm in the $10 million acquisition of construction equipment business with multiple locations throughout the south and southwest region.
- Represented a fertility practice in the sale of all of its assets to a private investment group in excess of $15 million.
- Represented an accounting firm in the sale of its assets to a larger Chicago-based accounting firm.
- Represented a brokerage and consulting firm in the sale of various assets to a national insurance brokerage.
- Represented an investment firm in the $7.5 million acquisition of a machinery business.
- Represented an investment firm in the $8 million purchase of all membership interests of an audio visual company.
- Represented a regional veterinary practice in the sale of all of its assets to a veterinary practice group in excess of $50 million.
- Represented a hydraulics corporation in the acquisition of Midwest hydraulic parts distributor.
- Represented the purchaser in the acquisition of a nationwide distributor of exercise equipment.
- Represented an investment firm in the $13 million acquisition of a construction equipment business with multiple locations throughout the southwestern region.
- Represented an investment firm in the stock purchase in excess of $18 million of a Texas-based machinery business with multiple locations across the southwest region.
- Represented an investment firm in its acquisition of membership interests of two operating companies and one subsidiary of a regional manufacturer and machinery company exceeding $80 million.
- Represented a waste removal corporation in the sale of all of the corporation’s stock exceeding $40 million.
- Represented an audio visual corporation in the $18 million stock purchase of an audiovisual equipment business.
- Represented a fastener corporation in the $8 million sale of all of its assets.
- Represented a logistics services and freight brokerage corporation in the sale of all of the corporation’s stock in excess of $11 million to a nationwide logistics company.
- Represented a restaurant in the sale of all company assets to another restaurant chain.
- Represented an engineering and manufacturing firm in the sale of all of its membership interests to a private equity company in the amount of $18 million.
Some of Margaret’s recent finance work includes the following matters:
- Represented an investment firm in connection with a $2 million dollar revolving line of credit and $46 million dollar syndicated loan from regional bank, as administrative agent, and other lenders.
- Represented an investment firm in connection with a $2 million dollar revolving line of credit and $5 million dollar term loan from a regional bank.
- Represented a regional lender in connection with a $6 million dollar loan to a real estate investor to acquire multi-family buildings and make improvements.
- Represented a regional lender in connection with a $3.2 million dollar commercial loan to a real estate investor secured by real estate, investment accounts and life insurance policies.
- Represented a national bank in connection with a term loan to commercial real estate investor to acquire commercial real estate.
- Represented a national bank in connection with loan facilities to a medical practice for the construction of the premises.
- Represented regional lender in connection with a $23,000,000 construction loan to real estate investors.
- Represented regional lender in connection with construction loans in the amounts of $5,500,000 and $3,500,000 to real estate investors.