Edward A. Gilman

M&A Transactions

• Counsel to a publicly traded waste and disposal services company in its $526 million sale to an infrastructure asset fund
• Counsel to a global commodities company in its tender offer and $203 million acquisition of a publicly traded U.S. sugar producer
• Counsel to a private practice optometrists network in its $185 million sale to a private equity investment firm
• Counsel to a petroleum engineering and procurement services company in its $115 sale to a private equity fund
• Counsel to a publicly traded instrumentation company in its $29 million sale to a multinational engineering and manufacturing company
• Counsel to IP networking company acquiror in its $236 million acquisition of a DSL products company
• Counsel to target, a B2B commerce company, in a $61 million acquisition by a B2B e-commerce solutions company
• Counsel to publicly traded waste and disposal services company in its $41 million acquisition of a regional waste and disposal services company
• Counsel to a publicly traded waste and disposal services company in its $45 million acquisition of a regional waste and disposal services company

Public Offerings
Issuer Counsel:

• Issuer counsel to an emerging growth company in its proposed IPO
• Issuer counsel to a network storage solution company in a $67.5 million IPO
• Issuer counsel to a critical power solutions company in a $136 million IPO
• Issuer counsel to a software for telecommunications carriers company in a $100 million public offering
• Issuer counsel to a land development and home building company in a $16.25 million public offering

Underwriter Counsel:

• Underwriter counsel to an emerging growth company in its proposed IPO
• Underwriter counsel to a banking software company in a $56.1 million IPO
• Underwriter counsel to a wireless broadband mobility company in a $78.2 million IPO
• Underwriter counsel to a data management and integration software company in a $45.3 million public offering

1934 Act Representation

• Regularly counsels publicly traded companies regarding their general corporate and 1934 Act compliance matters

Private Placements
Public Companies:

• Represented a broker-dealer in its issuance of approximately $225 million in debt and equity securities
• Represented a satellite and terrestrial telecommunications network company in issuance of $408 million of preferred stock
• Represented a satellite and terrestrial telecommunications network company in issuance of $131 million of common stock
• Represented a satellite and terrestrial telecommunications network company in issuance of $30 million of common stock
• Represented a critical power solutions company in issuance of $20 million of common stock
• Represented a land development and home building company in $10 million issuance of convertible notes
• Represented a land development and home building company in $7 million issuance of convertible notes
• Lead investor counsel in several PIPE transactions totaling in excess of $100 million in invested capital

Private Companies:

• Represented companies and investors in private placement transactions involving both equity and debt securities financing transactions