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Deal lawyers should take care when negotiating the materiality qualifiers for any merger or acquisition, McGuireWoods Charlottesville partner Clare Lewis and associate PJ Harris advised in the fall 2024 edition of Deal Points, the newsletter of the American Bar Association’s Mergers and Acquisitions Committee. In their article, “Defining What Matters: The Importance of Materiality, Material Adverse Effects and Materiality Scrapes in a Deal,” Lewis and Harris noted that the 2024 US Public Target Deal …

McGuireWoods partner Clare Lewis and associates PJ Harris and Jacob Mitchell authored “A Deal Lawyer’s Guide to Purchase Price Considerations,” published in the spring 2024 edition of Deal Points, the newsletter of the American Bar Association’s Mergers & Acquisitions Committee. The authors explore structuring and risk allocation in M&A dealmaking and discuss traps for the unwary in negotiating purchase agreements. Their article details how lawyers can help dealmakers achieve their business goals by …

McGuireWoods advised Peregrine Energy Solutions LLC, in closing a financing agreement with AB CarVal to raise over $700 million of credit, equity and debt to fund Peregrine's pipeline of over 7 gigawatts of high-quality projects, including standalone battery, solar and wind technologies.Peregrine is an integrated and multitechnology clean energy platform with a focus on utility-scale energy storage. The funding allows Peregrine to bring its project portfolio — which spans five independent system …

McGuireWoods advised Peregrine Energy Solutions LLC, in closing a financing agreement with AB CarVal to raise over $700 million of credit, equity and debt to fund Peregrine's pipeline of over 7 gigawatts of high-quality projects, including standalone battery, solar and wind technologies.Peregrine is an integrated and multitechnology clean energy platform with a focus on utility-scale energy storage. The funding allows Peregrine to bring its project portfolio — which spans five independent system …

Lawyers need to keep companies’ evolving priorities for environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) initiatives in mind to best help clients achieve ESG objectives while still getting deals done, McGuireWoods Charlottesville partner Clare Lewis and associate PJ Harris wrote for the spring 2023 edition of Deal Points, the newsletter of the American Bar Association's Mergers and Acquisitions Committee.In their article, “ESG Considerations in the Context of M&A,” Lewis and Harris explained that …

Companies negotiating lower middle market and add-on mergers and acquisitions can take several important steps to ensure they get the business and legal elements of the deal right and minimize their legal spend and risk exposure. In an article published in the winter 2023 edition of Deal Points, the newsletter of the American Bar Association's Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, McGuireWoods Charlottesville partner Clare Lewis and associate PJ Harris lay out helpful guidance to …

McGuireWoods’ Heather Arbogast and Clare Lewis are winners of The M&A Advisor’s Emerging Leaders Awards, which celebrate young professionals for success in mergers and acquisitions, turnarounds and financing. Arbogast, a partner in Baltimore, advises utilities, energy companies, developers, power purchasers, sponsors and investors on transactions and regulatory issues in the power, retail energy, solar, wind and battery storage sectors of the energy industry. She also serves as the Baltimore office’s pro bono …

McGuireWoods partners Steven Keeler and Clare Lewis authored a May 6, 2020, article in Law360 previewing the opportunities family offices will have to enhance private equity investment returns during the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.While traditional private equity players may pull back over the next two quarters, family offices can enhance returns on their private equity investment allocations “through a combination of reasonably valued investments in companies with good long-term …

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McGuireWoods advised Charlotte, N.C.-based private equity firm Falfurrias Capital Partners in acquiring C.F. Sauer Company’s food business. The deal’s closing is subject to shareholder approval and other conditions. C.F. Sauer shareholders will retain the company’s significant real estate portfolio. Charlotte M&A partner Chris Nesbit led the McGuireWoods deal team, which included partner J.D. Costa and associates Clare Lewis and Hannah Schuppner. Senior counsel Staci Rosche handled …

A McGuireWoods team represented private investment firm WJ Partners in selling its interest in Mobile Communications America (MCA) to Sentinel Capital Partners. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.McGuireWoods also advised WJ Partners in its 2013 purchase of MCA. Since then, MCA has completed 16 acquisitions and grown from 75 employees to a top provider of communications services for mission-critical, commercial and industrial markets, employing more than 500 people in seven states.Partners …