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Practice Areas
Corporate & Securities
Education
Notre Dame Law School, J.D. (1997)
Fordham University, B.A., cum laude (1994)
Admissions
New York
Pennsylvania
Memberships
Coach, Mid-Atlantic Venture Conference (2004 and 2005) Michael P. Rittinger
Partner
Philadelphia Office
260 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102-5003
215-569-3399 phone
215-568-6603 fax
Michael P. Rittinger concentrates his practice in the representation of private investment funds, privately-held companies and publicly-traded corporations in connection with a wide variety of complex transactions, including equity and debt offerings, venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and similar transactions.
Mr. Rittinger's recent representative transactions include:
Mergers and Acquisitions
Represented vision care information company in connection with the sale of its assets for approximately $23mm to a Euronext Amsterdam listed company;
Assisted in the representation of a NASDAQ National Market retailer of computer games, hardware and software in connection with its merger with a NYSE listed competitor in a transaction valued at over $1.6 billion;
Represented privately-held pharmaceutical testing company in connection with the sale of its assets for $18mm to a NASDAQ National Market company;
Represented a national steel fabricator in an $81mm cash-for-stock acquisition and financing of another steel fabricator, the combined entity of which is believed to be one of the five largest steel fabricators in the U.S.;
Represented industrial automation controls distributor in connection with its acquisitions of competitors ranging in size from $350k to $7.5mm;
Represented television station in a $50mm sale of assets in bankruptcy action proceeding;
Represented publicly-traded retailer of computer games, hardware and software in connection with its sale by auction of the assets of its line of sports collectible retail stores;
Represented information technology company in three acquisitions ranging in size from $2mm to $10mm;
Represented a Venezuela steel fabricator in a $5.4mm cash-for-stock acquisition of a U.S. Steel fabricator;
Represented retail arts and craft company in connection with the sale of its assets to a major television-shopping network listed on the NASDAQ National Market; and
Assisted in the representation of a NASDAQ National Market company that specialized in the administration of employment benefit plans in its merger with a private company from which shareholders received aggregate consideration in excess of $105mm.
Venture Capital
Represented lead investor in $5mm Series D round investment in privately-held company that develops electronics for cable television companies and related industries;
Represented lead investor in $1.5mm Series D round investment in privately-held company that develops education software programs for the medical field;
Represented lead investor in $4mm Series A round investment in privately-held company that develops security software for computer networks. | 