Biography
A member of Gallagher's Real Estate and Business Transactions group, Don Zeithaml represents clients in stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions of businesses in transactions ranging from $4 million to $350 million. He advises clients and negotiates on their behalf with regard to joint venture arrangements, private equity financing, Securities and Exchange Act reporting obligations and compliance, and general corporate, securities laws, and contract matters.
Representative Transactions
- Various clients in raising from $200,000 to $100 million in private equity;
- A $20 billion international real estate and clean energy financial services company in joint ventures and asset acquisitions involving renewable energy, environmental mitigation banking, mortgage banking, and over-seas low income housing;
- Management and a private equity investor in forming a company, acquiring telecommunications subsidiaries and obtaining several rounds of equity financing;
- A publicly traded telecommunications company in its $128 million acquisition of a nation-wide fiber optic network;
- The $53 million disposition of an international building products company;
- The restructuring of an investment in preferred stock in a NYSE company that was taken private by its Australian majority stockholder;
- A public company in the private placement of $225 million of convertible notes to hedge fund investors;
- A Canadian joint venture in its public exchange offer for a Canadian New York Stock Exchange listed company;
- Various issuers and underwriters, agents and initial purchasers in private and public offerings of debt and equity securities;
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