Overview
Shawn is the Chair of McDonald Hopkins’ Board of Directors and Executive Committee, after serving as firm president for six years. He is also the founder of our Strategic Advisory and Restructuring Department. While firm president, Shawn took the leading role in the development and implementation of the Firm's Strategic Plan. In his legal practice over the past 30 years, Shawn has advised clients on strategic alternatives, including acquisitions, sales, mergers, affiliations, refinancings, recapitalizations, and restructurings. He has counseled boards of directors on meeting their fiduciary duties in a variety of circumstances and in a number of industries, including automotive, energy, manufacturing, retail, casual dining, plastics, telecommunications, healthcare – including community and rural hospitals and long-term care facilities – and higher education institutions in refinancings, restructurings, and mergers. He has counseled businesses and institutions ranging in size from $10 million in revenue to multi-billion dollar public companies. Although resident in (and former head of) the Cleveland office, Shawn’s clients are located throughout the United States.
Shawn is the author of numerous articles and is a frequent lecturer on corporate governance, restructuring and fiduciary duty issues.
Shawn earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University in 1986. He received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Kent State University in 1983.
Representative Cases & Matters
- Invacare Corporation
- AmeriMark Interactive Inc.
- North Carolina-based operator of 12 senior living facilities
- Northeast Ohio skilled nursing and assisted living facility
- Indiana-based operator of 9 assisted living facilities
- Clarion Hospital
- Bristol Compressors International, LLC
- Dallas, Texas, provider of ecommerce fulfillment and distribution services
- Trios Health
- Northeast Ohio furniture retailer
- Canton, Ohio, street lamp manufacturer
- Cleveland, Ohio, hedge fund in bank holding company restructuring
- Multiple higher education institutions
- Indiana Limestone Company (Victor Oolitic Company)
- Ohio-based not-for-profit (restructuring of bank debt)
- South Franklin Circle (N.E. Ohio CCRC)
- Ohio-based $200 million revenue manufacturer of consumer products
- Michigan-based $400 million revenue tier 1 auto supplier
- West Virginia-based hospital system
- Cheboygan Memorial Hospital
- Arizona-based critical access hospital
- Twin City Hospital
- Bucyrus Community Hospital
- Forum Health Services
- BPI Energy Holdings, Inc.
- Columbus-based building products supplier
- Canton, Ohio-based home builder
- Hawaii Medical Center
- RMA Management Services, Inc.
- Cleveland-based automotive parts maker
- CCI (TGI Fridays franchisee)
- West Virginia-based water and juice bottling company
- Indiana-based automotive parts manufacturer
- Republic Technologies International, LLC
- DeVlieg-Bullard, Inc.
- Tiro Industries, LLC
- Copperweld Steel Company
- Midland Steel Products Company
- LTV Steel Railroad Subsidiaries
- Bush Leasing, Inc.
- National Bank Credit Card Unit (Special counsel in airline bankruptcy)
- National Truck Leasing Company (Restructuring counsel)