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McGuireWoods LLP announced today that it represented Plano Molding Company in its acquisition of Frabill Inc. The transaction, which was announced on Monday, closed on June 15. It brings together under one roof Plano, the worldwide leader in fishing tackle storage systems, and Frabill, the North American leader in live bait storage, landing nets and portable ice fishing shelters and related accessories.
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Represented a venture capital investor in connection with a $20 million Series B venture financing in a company that owns and operates a new digital out of home television network for the McDonald's chain.
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Represented a public holding company in the $180 million sale of its subsidiary, a manufacturer and distributor of industrial sewing thread, technical textiles and consumer products, to a private equity firm.
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Representation of a private equity fund in a recapitalization of a designer and manufacturer of custom precision optics and optical assemblies for an undisclosed amount.
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Represented the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to customers working in the oil and gas industry worldwide in its $25 million investment in a cathodic atmospheric plasma company, which represented a 20% stake together with a prepayment for a supply agreement.
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Representation of one of the world's leading producers of films for pharmaceutical, medical device, food, electronics, and general-purpose thermoform packaging in a stock acquisition of a company that manufactures overlay film converting and adhesive coating for the card industry.
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Represented a leading provider of e-learning performance support solutions in connection with a $5.5 million investment by a venture capital firm.
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Represented a publicly-traded manufacturer of high-speed interconnect solutions in its asset acquisition of a silicon photonics-based technology manufacturer.
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Representation of a portfolio company/private equity firm in the closing of a $77 million credit facility to fund a $52 million dividend to the company's shareholders. The transaction involved a cashless option exercise by the company's employee-option holders.
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Advised a regional agricultural cooperative through a two-part transaction in which our client purchased a 10 percent share in a grain management company for $10.5 million.
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Represented a private equity firm that manages over $1 billion of capital in an asset purchase between an entity created by the PE firm and a Wisconsin-based lighting company. The newly formed entity provides boxed-in/boxed-out lighting products and other related items through catalog and online sales.
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McGuireWoods recently represented Baltimore City in the issuance of approximately $25 million in tax increment financing (TIF) bonds to finance a portion of a $1.8 billion redevelopment project in East Baltimore. (Baltimore City pledged the tax revenues expected to be derived from increases in the taxable value of the property to pay debt service on the TIF bonds.) McGuireWoods helped develop a complicated yet innovative financing structure that leveraged the bond proceeds to create an additional approximately $3.7 million of New Markets Tax Credit equity for the benefit of East Baltimore Development, Inc., a city-created, nonprofit developer.
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Representing a pro bono client on behalf of The Community Tax Law Project, a 501(c)(3) organization representing low income taxpayers, we obtained a full concession by the IRS less than one week before a tax case was to be tried in U.S. Tax Court. We established that a father was entitled to a dependency exemption for his son, even though he did not have physical custody for more than half the year.
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Representation of the issuer in connection with $375 million of Premium Income Equity Securities (PIES), and a second offering consisting of $300 million of Upper DECS Equity Income Securities.
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Representation of a client in connection with the formation of a partnership and the subsequent acquisition of target assets, and structured $725 million of combined debt and equity capitalization, utilizing various trusts to secure obligations to creditors.
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Devised a creative structure for a proposed $650 million joint venture that benefits accelerated depreciation and other tax attributes, while utilizing the tax-exempt partner’s reduced cost of capital. This resulted from our team-oriented approach with tax, corporate and regulatory attorneys.
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Representation of a client before the IRS in connection with an intra-group restructuring styled as an internal Section 355 spin-off.
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Implemented a strategy to qualify a $700 million business alliance as tax-exempt use property eligible for rapid depreciation deductions.
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Representation of a client in connection with the acquisition of a $1.2 billion public company, including preparation of merger agreement, related acquisition documents, tax discussion in offering memoranda, and supporting tax opinions.
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Assisted a client in structuring a $60 million acquisition of a partial interest in a foreign corporation.