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Marc is Managing Partner of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz and is engaged in a comprehensive securities, commercial finance and corporate law practice. He represents publicly and privately-held clients in capital raising transactions, providing advice from the capitalization of start-up companies to the recapitalization or restructuring of established businesses. Marc is actively involved in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices, having advised clients in a wide range of transactions, including technology and e-commerce, banking, health care, consumer products, logistics, manufacturing, oil and gas, and real estate. He also advises publicly-held companies and regulated broker-dealers and investment advisors on compliance with the rapidly changing federal and state securities laws and regulations.
Some of Marc’s recent experience includes representing:
Private Equity/Venture Capital
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A $100 million fund formed to acquire controlling ownership positions in banks and thrifts headquartered in the continental U.S.
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A private equity sponsor with the leveraged recapitalizations and consolidations of several leading privately-held clinical drug testing companies in transactions totaling $126 million
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A private equity group in a $44 million acquisition and related financing of a leading provider of airport ground handling services to the air cargo industry
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A private equity group with the $22 million leveraged recapitalization of a consumer products company located in Southeastern U.S.
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A $25 million private equity fund formed to invest in wholesale distribution and logistics organizations in the middle market
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A private equity client in the formation of a $15 million fund focused on investing in Israeli technology companies desiring to establish U.S. operations in the Great Lakes Region
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A private equity fund in the acquisition of a golf apparel and equipment company, including entering into a 30-year license for use of the trade marks
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An internet video streaming company through its early rounds of “angel” and venture capital financing totaling $13 million, development of its employee stock option plan and a strategic acquisition of a company providing complementary video streaming hardware
Securities
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A publicly-held insurance holding company in a $45 million secondary offering
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A publicly-held diverse manufacturing company in an exchange offer for $65 million of publicly-held bonds and the restructuring of $50 million of senior bank debt
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A stockholder in a hostile proxy contest for control of a publicly-held real estate investment trust and subsequent roll-up of properties controlled by the stockholder into the REIT
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A publicly-held company in establishing a subsidiary to sell its products over the internet, including the initial capital raising
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A publicly-held natural gas utility company in a $15 million rights offering
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A broker-dealer registered with the National Association of Securities Dealers in an investigation of insider trading involving a public company
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A retail eyewear company in its initial public offering, subsequent secondary offering and eventual acquisition in a public tender offer in a $65 million public tender offer
Mergers and Acquisitions
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A diverse manufacturing company in a series of transactions valued at over $100 million
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An automobile dealer group in related sales transactions with a total sale price of over $30 million
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The board of directors of a publicly-held Ohio bank holding company in a contested merger and another bank holding company
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A publicly-held medical insurance holding company to acquire additional medical insurance companies with combined assets of more than $650 million
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A publicly-held manufacturing company with net sales in excess of $300 million in the formation and strategic acquisition of businesses located in the United States and several foreign countries
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A publicly-held manufacturer in the $94 million sale of a primary business segment
Technology
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A start-up company with the first ever license granted by Microsoft® to a company using a non-Windows® operating system
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A start-up telecommunications networking company in structuring a limited liability company and its initial capital raising
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A provider of business continuity, disaster avoidance and recovery services and collocation solutions and technologies
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A provider of web-based employment screening solutions, assisting in corporate formation, capitalization and customer agreements
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A start-up teleradiology services business, assisting in corporate formation, capitalization, and radiologist and customer agreements
International
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A publicly-held company in establishing its overseas operations in China and Mexico
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A distributor of technologically enhanced granite and marble in the acquisition of the product’s Italian based manufacturer and patent holder
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A purchaser of an offshore trust administration company with branches in the Bahamas, Geneva, Channel Islands and Canada
Education
University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA. J.D., 1986; Managing Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1985-86
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, A.B., cum laude, with Highest Distinction in History
Directorships
Director and Secretary, John D. Oil & Gas, Inc. (OTCBB:JDOG.OB)
Chairman of the Board, Junior Achievement (Cleveland, OH)
Director, Treasurer and Chair of Investment Committee, Mount Sinai Health Foundation
Director, Bellefaire JCB
Board of Directors, AIDS Funding Collaborative
Professional Associations
American Bar Association
Cleveland Bar Association
Martindale-Hubbell Listing
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