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Deal lawyers should take care when negotiating the materiality qualifiers for any merger or acquisition, McGuireWoods Charlottesville partner Clare Lewis and associate PJ Harris advised in the fall 2024 edition of Deal Points, the newsletter of the American Bar Association’s Mergers and Acquisitions Committee. In their article, “Defining What Matters: The Importance of Materiality, Material Adverse Effects and Materiality Scrapes in a Deal,” Lewis and Harris noted that the 2024 US Public Target Deal …

McGuireWoods partner Clare Lewis and associates PJ Harris and Jacob Mitchell authored “A Deal Lawyer’s Guide to Purchase Price Considerations,” published in the spring 2024 edition of Deal Points, the newsletter of the American Bar Association’s Mergers & Acquisitions Committee. The authors explore structuring and risk allocation in M&A dealmaking and discuss traps for the unwary in negotiating purchase agreements. Their article details how lawyers can help dealmakers achieve their business goals by …

McGuireWoods associates PJ Harris and Jacob Mitchell recently wrote “A Deal Lawyer’s Guide to Calibrating the Capital Stack,” an article published in the winter 2024 edition of Deal Points, the newsletter of the American Bar Association’s Mergers & Acquisitions Committee. According to the article, clients involved in M&A or private equity (PE) deals often ask their deal lawyers for advice on the best way to receive or inject capital into a company to …

… Francisco, litigates high-risk consumer class actions, Ponzi schemes, civil conspiracies, contract, tort, statutory and related business claims. She also has been on the front lines of the evolving mass arbitration landscape, including defending several entities against mass arbitration attacks. Before joining McGuireWoods, Yi was a legal extern for U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank of the District of Minnesota. She co-chairs NAPABA’s Financial Services Network. Atlanta partner Ken Neighbors, chair of …

McGuireWoods advised Peregrine Energy Solutions LLC, in closing a financing agreement with AB CarVal to raise over $700 million of credit, equity and debt to fund Peregrine's pipeline of over 7 gigawatts of high-quality projects, including standalone battery, solar and wind technologies.Peregrine is an integrated and multitechnology clean energy platform with a focus on utility-scale energy storage. The funding allows Peregrine to bring its project portfolio — which spans five independent system …

McGuireWoods advised Peregrine Energy Solutions LLC, in closing a financing agreement with AB CarVal to raise over $700 million of credit, equity and debt to fund Peregrine's pipeline of over 7 gigawatts of high-quality projects, including standalone battery, solar and wind technologies.Peregrine is an integrated and multitechnology clean energy platform with a focus on utility-scale energy storage. The funding allows Peregrine to bring its project portfolio — which spans five independent system …

… Under 40 Lawyers in Virginia. He represents companies in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, platform and add-on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other transformative and strategic transactions. Hopkins, a Chicago associate, was named to the list of Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers in Illinois. He defends employers in employment-related disputes, including claims under Title VII, the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and state discrimination and …

Lawyers need to keep companies’ evolving priorities for environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) initiatives in mind to best help clients achieve ESG objectives while still getting deals done, McGuireWoods Charlottesville partner Clare Lewis and associate PJ Harris wrote for the spring 2023 edition of Deal Points, the newsletter of the American Bar Association's Mergers and Acquisitions Committee.In their article, “ESG Considerations in the Context of M&A,” Lewis and Harris explained that …

Companies negotiating lower middle market and add-on mergers and acquisitions can take several important steps to ensure they get the business and legal elements of the deal right and minimize their legal spend and risk exposure. In an article published in the winter 2023 edition of Deal Points, the newsletter of the American Bar Association's Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, McGuireWoods Charlottesville partner Clare Lewis and associate PJ Harris lay out helpful guidance to …