Overview
Lisa S. Lauer is a Member in the Business Department at McDonald Hopkins and a key part of the firm’s Executive Compensation Practice Group. Lisa has extensive experience advising public and private companies on complex transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and entity financings.
Her practice includes more than a decade of broad-based legal experience, both in private practice and in-house, where she led strategic domestic and international transactions and advised executive leadership on a wide range of corporate, regulatory, and compliance matters. Her experience also includes drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, managing corporate governance for large entity structures, and supporting spin-offs and other high-level corporate initiatives.
Lisa received a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan and a B.S. from Wayne State University.
Representative Cases & Matters
- Represented NYSE-listed manufacturer in $500 million strategic purchase of European-based home products business.
- Represented producer of metal powder products in sale to private equity buyer in a transaction valued at approximately $400 million.
- Represented founders of niche developer and underwriter of insurance programs in $350 million sale to U.S. public company and later sale to private equity buyer.
- Represented private-equity-backed purchaser of national behavioral health facility, in transaction valued at over $400 million, in Bankruptcy Code Section 363 Sale.
- Represented private equity fund in $80 million divestiture of producer of specialty chemical products.
- Represented portfolio companies of various private equity firms in bolt-on acquisitions in transactions valued at $5 million to $300 million.
- Represented developer and producer of high-performance copper alloys as well as chlorine and caustic soda products in connection with $75 million joint venture.
- Represented manufacturer of medical device equipment in several multi-million-dollar strategic purchases.
- Represented automotive supplier in over twenty different sales of various assets and divisions to public and private entities in out-of-court restructuring.
- Represented financial services firm in connection with numerous private placements totaling more than $1 billion.
- Represented Fortune 500 Company in spin-off of subsidiary and subsequent sale for $6.6 billion as part of transactions valued at over $17 billion.
- Represented U.S. public company in response to tender offer for its shares, including preparation of required SEC filings.
- Represented U.S. public company in various carve-out transactions, sales of subsidiaries, purchases of strategic businesses in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and investments in strategic businesses.
- Represented commodities exchange in complete restructuring and demutualization into a stock, for-profit company and its subsequent $500 million initial public offering.
- Represented Fortune 500 Company in sale of $911 million of equity in an underwritten public offering and its offering of $1.5 billion of convertible debt securities.
- Represented equipment manufacturer in $750 million initial public offering.
- Represented private-equity purchaser in $350 million purchase of OE and aftermarket automotive blanking, paper, and friction components manufacturer.
- Represented European-based public company in connection with strategic purchase from private equity seller in transaction valued at approximately $350 million.
- Represented Horizon Global (NYSE: HZN) in connection with:
- Represented health system in sale of its ambulance businesses, sale of its home care and hospice businesses, strategic purchases and sales.
Credentials
Education
University of Michigan Law School
Wayne State University
Admissions – State
- Michigan