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Nicole Kroetsch-Leimer is a member of the Faegre & Benson corporate practice. Nicole focuses her practice in the areas of public companies, mergers and acquisitions and private equity finance. Representative public company clients include Target Corporation; Tennant Company; Life Time Fitness, Inc.; Advanced BioEnergy, LLC; Graco, Inc.; and Fastenal Company. She has also represented private companies with respect to corporate matters and debt financings. Nicole works with private equity firms, such as Norwest Equity Partners, Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison and ONCAP, and mezzanine lenders, such as Norwest Mezzanine Partners and Churchill Capital, in debt financing matters.
Nicole's industry-related practice experience includes advising restaurant and ethanol companies in connection with debt financings and securities offerings. Representative engagements include:
Represented BUCA, Inc. in debt financing and a sale through a tender offer
Represented The Oceanaire, Inc. in debt financing and private stock offerings
Represented Houlihan Restaurants, Inc. in connection with debt financing
Represented VeraSun Energy Corporation in a 144A note offering and secondary securities offering
Represented Advanced BioEnergy, LLC in securities offerings
Prior to her practice of law, Nicole worked in the U.S. Senate Office of Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota in Washington, D.C. as a legislative assistant for appropriations, small business and housing issues. In this role, she worked with North Dakota universities, local governments and small businesses.
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