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Chris Hofstad is a partner at Faegre & Benson with a practice involving a wide variety of corporate and other business matters, including: mergers and acquisitions; general corporate and business counseling; financing, securities and private equity; joint ventures, outsourcing and other complex commercial arrangements; and sports and entertainment.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Chris has extensive experience in numerous types of M&A transactions, including: mergers; stock and asset?based transactions; tender offers; and leveraged buyouts. He represents buyers, sellers, management, investors, lenders and others in public and private transactions of all sizes. These are samples of transactions in which Chris was the lead attorney or in which he played a leading role:
Leveraged buyouts of Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corporation, Westlake Ace Hardware and Vitality Foodservice by Goldner Hawn Private Equity
Sale of the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings
Acquisition of American Hockey League's Houston Aeros and sale of National Lacrosse League's Minnesota Swarm by Minnesota Sports & Entertainment (Minnesota Wild)
Acquisitions and sales by Guidant Corporation (now under Boston Scientific)
Leveraged buyout of Becker?Underwood, Inc. by Norwest Equity Partners
Acquisition of Minneapolis Aquatennial Association by Minneapolis Downtown Council
Acquisition of SierraCities.com Inc. by American Express Company in a tender offer
Sale of Fingerhut Companies in a tender offer with total consideration of $1.7 billion
Acquisition of Lyon Financial Services, Inc. by U.S. Bancorp
Merger of Cowles Media Company (Star Tribune) and McClatchy Newspapers, Inc. with total consideration of $1.4 billion
Sale of Funco, Inc. to Barnes & Noble, Inc. in a tender offer
Acquisitions and sales by The St. Paul Companies, now part of The Travelers Companies
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