Margaret M. Salinas

Margaret has advised clients on a variety of multimillion-dollar corporate transactions, both on the buy-side and sell-side, including stock and asset purchases, mergers and joint ventures. Margaret’s deal work extends from coast to coast and across a broad spectrum of industries, including manufacturing, industrial, financial, retail, medical, accounting and private investment funds. Her experience ranges from lower- to upper-middle-market corporate transactions.

Margaret’s practice extends beyond transactional work and includes all aspects of business planning and advising, including business formation, ownership restructure, ownership redemption, day-to-day business matters, contract preparation and negotiation and otherwise acting as “outside in-house counsel” to her clients.

With substantial financing experience, Margaret has also represented lenders and borrowers in the context of both secured and unsecured financing 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.

Education
DePaul University College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2016
Governors State University, B.A., Criminal Justice, 2011

Bar Admissions
Illinois, 2016

• Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law

• CALI, International Dispute Resolution
• CALI, International Aviation Law and Policy
• Leading Lawyer (2024 – 2025)

• Chuhak & Tecson’s Women Helping Women program, ambassador.