Mergers and Acquisitions
Michael Caolo Jr.’s extensive expertise includes representing both acquiring and acquired parties in domestic and international business combinations of all types, including tender offers and negotiated mergers, joint ventures and acquisitions and dispositions of stock or assets, or both, involving public and private companies. In addition to routinely advising clients in the acquisition or disposition of small to middle market businesses, our prior transactions include:
Representation of the purchaser in a leveraged buyout of a $110 million division from a large public company, identifying and obtaining the multiple lending institutions to provide the $35 million financing, and then with Michael Caolo Jr. personally providing the equity for the purchaser to close the transaction
Representation of the seller in the disposition of an operating division engaged in the business of engineering and manufacturing in a transaction valued in excess of $80 million
Representation of management in a leveraged buyout of an international apparel company, in a transaction valued in excess of $40 million
Representation of the purchaser in a leveraged buyout of a company engaged in a transaction valued in excess of $35 million and arrangement of the financing thereof through the private placement of equity with venture capital firms, the establishment of senior term debt and revolving loan facilities and the sale of subordinated debentures
Representation of domestic companies in the establishment of joint venture businesses in Europe, Venezuela and India to manufacture and market industrial products and control products and systems, including negotiating related technology sharing, licensing and distribution arrangements
Representation of the purchaser in the acquisition of the world’s leading air filtration business in a transaction valued in excess of $250 million
Representation of the spouse in a major multi-million dollar property settlement agreement relating to a divorce involving ownership and operation of several significant businesses
Representation of the seller in the disposition of an operating division engaged in the business of engineering and manufacturing in a transaction valued in excess of $80 million
