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Cecil E. Martin III
Partner 
7 Saint Paul Street
cmartin@mcguirewoods.comSuite 1000 Baltimore, Maryland 21202-1671 F: 410.659.4535    |
Mr. Martin's transactional practice focuses on business combinations, energy transactions and regulations, corporate finance and securities law, in addition to a wide range of other legal services including project development, construction contracting, product and software licensing and distribution, strategic partnering and joint ventures. His industry focus includes energy, financial services and life sciences. Local and international companies, from emerging growth to Fortune 500, regularly rely on his advice and counsel.
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Represented private equity fund in the $1 billion acquisition of Textron's fluid and power division.
- Represented the seller in the auction and sale of 10 district energy heating and cooling companies in six states, representing 238 MW of combined electricity generating 10 million pounds of steam and 72,800 tons of chilled water, with a purchase price in excess of $400 million.
- Represented the sellers of a national immunoglobulin home infusion company to one of the world's largest pharmaceutical services companies in a stock sale.
- Represented an educational textbook design and production company in the sale of substantially all of its assets.
- Represented a private equity fund in a $40,000,000 investment in Series E Preferred Shares issued to finance the acquisition of a municipal waste landfill.
- Represented a publicly traded contract research organization in its acquisition by reverse triangular merger of a regulatory/clinical consulting firm.
- Represented a publicly traded petroleum refiner and marketer in a going-private transaction.
- Represented a publicly traded voice-over-Internet protocol (VOIP) telecommunications company in its acquisition of a New York-based competitive local exchange carrier targeting niche immigrant markets.
- Represented a U.K. manufacturer of scholastic products in the divestiture of its U.S. business.
- Represented a commercial printer in a purchase transaction priced at $11 million plus an EBITDA-based earnout.
- Represented a building materials company in its acquisition of a fireplace products company.
- Represented a large materials handling equipment manufacturer in its acquisition of all of the assets of a manufacturer of environmental control equipment out of bankruptcy.
- Financing and Project Development
- Represented the issuer in a $390 million leveraged lease financing of a 440MW lignite-fired power plant.
- Represented the developer in the financing and development of several landfill gas-to energy projects.
- Represent a solar developer in the development of 2 Maryland solar facilities.
- Represented the contractor in negotiating an approximately $180 million engineering, procurement and construction contract for power plant environmental control systems.
- Represented issuer in equity financings aggregating several billion in the past five years.
- Represented investors in more than 30 Community Reinvestment Act investments throughout the United States.
- Represented the first biodiesel plant to receive its air permit to construct in the State of Maryland in a $6 million mixed debt and equity financing structured as a private placement.
- Represented a private equity fund in its $4 million loan to a wastewater treatment company.
- Represented a provider of senior secured equipment financing in its 144A private placement of approximately $46.5 million of common stock.
- Represented a publicly traded VOIP telecommunications company in its private equity financings (common and preferred stock PIPE transactions) aggregating approximately $10 million over two years.
- Represented an automobile finance company in acquisitions of portfolios of sub-prime receivables.
- Represented an Internet content management software developer in its $15 million offering pursuant to Regulation D of its Series B Preferred Stock.
- Energy & Utilities
- Securities & Corporate Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Climate Change
- Life Sciences
- Emerging Company & Venture Capital Group
- Sustainability
- Member, McGuireWoods Recruiting Committee
- Member, McGuireWoods Council
- Stark & Keenan, P.C.
- Director, Lawyers for the Arts
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EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, J.D., 1996
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, B.A., cum laude, 1993 ADMITTED Maryland 1996 PLACE OF BIRTH Havre de Grace, Maryland |