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Experience:
Paul Crimmins is an experienced, well-regarded corporate and transactional lawyer whose practice is primarily concentrated on business restructurings, issues of securitization, and general corporate representation. In that context, Paul advises clients on:
Mergers and Acquisitions. Structures, negotiates, and documents stock and asset acquisitions and sales, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships.
Securities Transactions. Represents issuers in all aspects of private placements, initial public offerings, and exchange offers; and represents institutional minority investors in complex venture-capital transactions.
General Corporate Representation. Structures and documents closely-held businesses and start-up ventures, and negotiates and drafts buy-sell, employment, confidentiality, and non-competition agreements and equipment and commercial real property leases; advises manufacturers and retailers regarding all aspects of sales, distribution and pricing policies; and provides general corporate counseling and representation.
Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 1994, Paul worked with another prominent law firm. Today, he advises some of Mayer Brown’s largest corporate clients.
Notable Engagements:
Maytag Corporation in its sale of its subsidiary Jade Products Company to The Middleby Corporation.
Coleman Cable, Inc. in its acquisition of Copperfield llc for $214 million.
Caterpillar Inc. in its acquisition of Progress Rail Services, Inc. for a total consideration of $1 billion.
Koninklijke DSM NV in its acquisition of the US neoresins business of Avecia Investments Limited.
Marconi Corporation plc in the sale of its US Outside Plant, Power and Services and Test Systems businesses to Emerson Electric Co., for a total consideration of $406 million.
Whirlpool Corporation in the sale of its subsidiary, Whirlpool de Reynosa SA de CV, to Noma Corporation.
Marconi Corporation plc in the sale of its North American Access Business to Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc. for $240 million.
Life Fitness, a division of Brunswick Corporation, in a series of transactions whereby the entity sold its portfolio of US retail exercise equipment stores to Hancock Park Capital II, lp (terms withheld).
Whirlpool Corporation in its acquisition of the remaining 51 percent of Vitromatic, SA de CV from Vitro SA, for $148 million.
Brunswick Corporation in its sale of the stock of Igloo Products Corp. and related assets to Westar Capital llc and affiliates for approximately $70 million.
Marconi Corporation plc in the sale of its Data Systems subsidiaries to Danaher Corporation for $400 million.
Packtion Holdings, Inc. in its formation and issuance of equity to Silgan Holdings Inc., Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners IV, lp, The Proctor & Gamble Company and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.
The Quaker Oats Company in the formation of Altus Food Company, llc, a joint venture with Novartis Consumer Health for the development and commercialization of functional foods and beverages.
Cargill, Incorporated in the formation of Renessen llc, a biotechnology joint venture with Monsanto for the development of improved ingredients and inputs for agricultural and food processing applications.
Education:
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD, cum laude, 1989; Dean's List, Alpha Sigma Nu, Loyola University Chicago, BS, 1985. | 