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Brendan J. Cahill is a member of the Corporate Finance Practice Group. His practice primarily focuses on business planning, acquisition and financing transactions, general corporate counseling, and securities matters, with an emphasis on:
Public and private company mergers and acquisitions and joint venture transactions;
Representing issuers and borrowers in a wide range of financing transactions, including private and public offerings of securities, secured debt facilities (including facilities for bankruptcy-remote entities), and private equity and venture capital financings;
General corporate representation including counsel to Boards of Directors, entity formation and capitalization, shareholder agreements, customer and supplier relationships, and executive employment matters; and
The formation of certified minority business enterprises.
Prior to joining Dykema, Mr. Cahill worked in the financial derivative products trading industry.
Experience
GDX Automotive
Serve as regular outside counsel.
Advise the company with respect to corporate governance, asset dispositions, customer and supplier relationships, non-US subsidiary matters, and general corporate matters.
Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. (Nasdaq: AACC)
Acquisition of Premium Asset Recovery Corporation.
Initial public offering and secondary offering; February 2004 and March 2005.
SEC reporting and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance.
Hennessey Capital Solutions, Inc.
Formation and capitalization; November 2003.
Acquisition of eFinNet Corporation; April 2004.
Special purpose entity secured credit facility with GE Capital Corporation and Babcock & Brown, L.P.; July 2005.
Special purpose entity secured credit facility with Surge Capital; August 2005.
General corporate advice.
Oxford Automotive, Inc.
Acquisitions of Lobdell Emery Corporation, Eaton Corporation’s Suspension Division, Howell Industries, and BMG North America.
Sale of McCalla, Alabama and Lapeer, Michigan facilities to U.S. affiliate of Gestamp Automocion, S.L.; November 2004 and March 2005.
Negotiation and document Senior secured credit facility with Citicorp USA.
Senior secured credit facility with Silver Point Finance, LLC, as Agent.
Prepackaged Chapter 11 reorganization with MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners L.P. as equity sponsor.
Chapter 11 reorganization.
$200,000,000 senior subordinated note offering.
$280,000,000 senior subordinated note offering.
General corporate advice, including coordination with non-US counsel.
Kaydon Corporation (NYSE: KDN)
Acquisition of ACE Controls, Inc.
Acquisition of Printed Circuit Solutions Manufacturing, Inc.
Sale of Fluid Power Division.
Issuance of $170,000,000 4.0% Contingent Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2023.
The Oxford Investment Group, Inc.
Acquisition of Fourslides Inc.; April 2005.
Millennium Industries Corporation
Mergers and acquisitions advice.
General corporate advice.
BullsEye Telecom
Private equity financing from First Union Capital Partners.
Stoneage Corporation
Venture capital financing from Arbor Partners and the M Group.
General corporate advice, including redemption transactions.
Certified Minority Business Enterprises
Represented subsidiary of Inoac USA, Inc. in the formation of certified minority business enterprise joint venture, Springfield Products Industries, L.L.C.
Represented Packaging Concepts + Design, Inc. in its acquisition of interests in certified minority business enterprise joint venture, Diversity Products, L.L.C.
Professional Associations
American Bar Association, Section of Business Law
Michigan State Bar Association, Section of Business Law
Oakland County Bar Association
Civic and Cultural Involvements
Board of Directors, Lighthouse Emergency Services subsidiary of Lighthouse of Oakland County; Chairman of the Board's Development Committee
Board of Directors, Notre Dame Club of Detroit
Fundraiser for Angel's Place, a housing provider for developmentally disabled adults.
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