Michael J. Boland is a securities lawyer with substantial experience in public registrations and exempt offerings under the Securities Act of 1933. He represents public and private company clients in debt and equity financings and venture capital financings, including companies engaged in communications, computer hardware and software, insurance, electronic components, chemical products, manufacturing, highway safety, professional staffing and tourism. Mr. Boland also advises public companies with respect to Securities Exchange Act compliance and reporting responsibilities, inquiries by the SEC and other regulatory agencies, listing and maintenance requirements for the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, and inquiries from analysts and the financial press. He has also assisted in the preparation of proxy materials in connection with significant events, such as control contests and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Boland’s experience also includes structuring, documenting and implementing private equity funds.
Mr. Boland also represents public and private companies in a wide variety of business combination transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (both negotiated and hostile), divestitures, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, recapitalizations and other corporate restructurings, issuer and third-party tender or exchange offers, and joint ventures. His representation includes structuring, negotiating and documenting transactions for buyers and sellers as lead counsel, as well as managing the transaction "team."
Mr. Boland’s representation of early stage companies and entertainment-related companies includes creation of basic legal infrastructure (e.g., agreements with and among shareholders and employees) and closing of start-up, follow–on private placement and venture finance financing rounds. He has extensive experience in creating business structures that meet client objectives, including limited liability companies.
In addition to his transactional practice, Mr. Boland provides advice and counsel to clients on the wide variety of general business matters including: directors’ obligations; corporate governance issues; anti-takeover techniques and planning; joint venture, corporate partnering and strategic alliance arrangements; and general business contract matters.
Recent Representative Transactions
- Representing a public company in the sale of a $100 million computer equipment leasing business.
- Representing a water testing and environmental products company in its $400 million merger.
- Representing a public company in connection with the $18 million sale of its medical asset leasing and refurbishment business to a management-led buyout group.
- Representing a public company in connection with its $54 million acquisition of an integrated communications service provider.
- Representing a public company in the sale of its $5 million traffic safety products division.
- Representing a private company seller in a $25 million sale of an electronic components business to a management-led buyout group.
- Representing a public company in the $18 million stock-for-stock purchase of an electrical products business.
- Representing a private company seller in a $8 million stock-for-stock sale of a consulting services business.
- Representing a private company consolidator in the purchase of four auto repair service businesses totaling $5 million.
- Representing a funeral vault manufacturer in the $5 million acquisition of a group of companies.
- Representing a plastics components company in the $5 million acquisition of a business.
- Representing a death care company in the $5 million sale of its chemical products division.
- Representing a specialty meats distributor in a $3 million management buy-out.
- Representing the seller in the $3 million sale of an insurance brokerage firm.
- Representing the seller in the $3 million sale of a commercial editing business.