Craig A. Adoor

Securities and Capital Markets

• Represented issuers in IPOs, secondary offerings and follow-on offerings.
• Represented privately held company in stock repurchase transactions over alternative trading system.
• Advised special committee of boards of directors in "going private" transactions, including supervising necessary corporate transactional work and drafting necessary securities disclosure documentation and filings.
• Represented numerous manufacturing companies, bank holding companies and insurance companies in initial public offerings, follow-on offerings and secondary offerings.
• Familiarity with NYSE and NASDAQ listing requirements.

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Led or assisted with hundreds of transactions including:
• Represented privately held company in $98 million sale of intermodal terminal businesses, including formation of joint ventures with buyer for selected future developments.
• Responsible for structuring corporate reorganization and related corporate documentation by which Casino Queen became first 100 percent ESOP-owned casino.
• Represented A.G. Industries Inc. in sale to Filtration Group Corporation, a portfolio company of Madison Capital Partners, a private equity firm.
• Represented privately held company engaged in manufacture and sale of paper bags used for packaging consumer and commercial food products, in sale of company to operations-focused private equity firm.
• Represented sale of two related entities, both privately-held technology businesses, engaged in business of software as service for mass communication information distribution, to strategic buyer.

Bank Holding Company-Related Matters and Transactions

• Represented hedge fund in obtaining first-time ruling from Federal Reserve Bank granting hedge funds holding non-voting TARP shares of a bank holding company the right to participate in appointment of two members of the board directors.
• Represented numerous bank holding companies in acquisition or disposition of other bank holding companies or commercial banks.
• Counseled bank holding company with assets of $500 million in going public and led subsequent acquisitions of target bank holding companies in tax-free transactions, thereby increasing asset size to more than $1 billion by time it was acquired by a larger bank holding company.