Private Equity
Manners & Malone, PLLC stands apart from most private equity law firms because its principals are general partners in their own separate private equity group leveraged buyout group and they are in the business of actually buying businesses for themselves as principals. To learn more about this venture, visit www.providencegroup.us
Manners & Malone, PLLC provides transactional counsel to private equity groups, leveraged buyout groups, entrepreneurs, management teams, venture capital groups, general partners, and other private equity sponsors. Manners & Malone, PLLC also assists portfolio companies in contractual and regulatory matters and matters related to its shareholders, investors, partners, and employees. Additionally, Manners & Malone, PLLC works closely with expert securities counsel, tax attorneys, CPAs and investment bankers who are typically part of the private equity advisory team. Our services include analysis and advice in the following areas:
- Leveraged buyouts
- Management buyouts
- Compliance issues
- Disclosure issues
- Due diligence issues
- Mergers
- Partnership structuring
- Analysis of senior financing
- Analysis of mezzanine financing
- Analysis of bridge loans
- Analysis of economic expectations
- Transaction structuring
- Determination of carried interest, transaction fees and management fees
- Clawback provisions and escrows
- Timing issues
- Fiduciary relationships
- Business trusts
- Dilution issues
- Fund distributions
- Term sheets
- Private placement memorandums
- Regulation D
- Rules 504, 505 and 506
- Accredited investors
- General solicitation and advertising
- Resale restrictions
- Blue sky laws and notice requirement
- Intercreditor agreements
- Key man provisions
- Liquidation rights
- No shop provisions
- Break up fees
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