Mr. Vaughn's practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, public securities offerings, public company securities compliance and private placements of securities involving institutional, venture capital and private investors.
He counsels public and non-public companies on issues surrounding mergers; stock purchases and asset acquisitions; commercial loan financings; board of director meetings and general board relations; stock-based employee benefits plans; anti-takeover defense mechanisms; partnership syndications and joint ventures; product distribution relationships; and the drafting and negotiation of a broad array of business agreements. He assists clients with organizational issues; negotiation of initial rounds of financing; preparation of private placement memoranda; negotiation of venture capital financing and bank financing; and initial public offering representation. Mr. Vaughn serves as corporate secretary or assistant secretary for Perceptron, Inc. and a number of privately-held companies.
Experience
Northwest Trustee Services, Inc.
General corporate counsel
Perceptron, Inc.
General corporate and securities counsel
Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.
Cash merger with Professionals Direct, Inc.
Acquisition of Verlan Holdings, Inc.
Pine River Plastics, Inc.
Asset sale transactions pre- and post-Chapter 11 Filing
Sarna Polymer Holding, Inc.
Acquisition of Blue Water Plastics, Inc.
Disposition of Sarnamotive Blue Water, Inc.
Active Tool & Manufacturing Co., Inc.
$317 Million cash merger with Tower Automotive
LDMI Telecommunications, Inc.
Venture capital placements of Series A, B, C and D rounds of Convertible Subordinated Preferred Stock
Stock merger with Ideal Technology Solutions U.S., Inc.
Cash merger with Talk America, Inc.
Comshare, Incorporated
$52 million tender offer by and merger with Geac Computer Corporation Limited
Automated Analysis Corporation
Stock sale to Belcan Corporation and sale of its Comet Division to Collins & Aikman
Auto Chassis International
Organization of Auto Chassis International North American Operations, Inc.
Advanced Modular Power Systems, Inc.
Common stock self tender offer
GDI Infotech, Inc.
General corporate counsel
Orbis Holdings Group, L.L.C.
General corporate counsel.
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