“Laura is responsive and provides practical advice. She is a talented lawyer who navigates and negotiates changes efficiently, ensuring a smooth process.” - Benesch Client, Chambers USA
Laura focuses her practice on private equity, mezzanine lending, senior lending, and institutional and syndicated transactions. Her practice also includes sell-side and buy-side M&A, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, ESOP financings, equipment financing, and other liquidity events.
Laura represents investors, lenders, and administrative agents in structuring, negotiating and protecting their debt and equity investments. She represents middle-market companies and their stakeholders in a variety of critical growth transactions including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and other liquidity events. She also works with clients in workout or restructuring scenarios and negotiates with critical constituents to gain economic visibility and preserve investment value.
Laura has been recognized since 2014 for her work in Banking and Finance by Chambers USA. Chambers USA 2020 notes that Laura offers “strengths in handling financing aspects of complex transactional work, including public M&A and private equity deals. Clients describe her as ‘attentive and thoughtful’ and note her skills as a ‘confident negotiator.’” Laura also has been described by Chambers USA sources as “a very talented banking and finance lawyer,” with one client calling her “extremely responsive, prompt and detailed in her work product.”
She has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© (2018-2021) in the area of Commercial Finance Law. Best Lawyers is the oldest and highly respected peer review publication in the legal profession. Recognition in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers.
Representative Experience
- Represented private equity sponsor in its simultaneous acquisitions of an oncology practice service provider and a group purchasing organization.
- Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a distribution company representing manufacturers of engines, transmissions and generators.
- Represented W.W. Williams in its sale of Auto Safety House, a commercial truck solutions provider and bus dealer, to Reading Truck Group.
- Represented agent for senior lenders to a healthcare REIT.
- Represented agent for senior lenders to multi-national clothing manufacturer.
- Represented mezzanine lender in sponsor-backed asset acquisition of a manufacturer and distributor of food products.
- Represented subordinated lender in distressed sale of company in receivership.
- Represented physician group in a business divorce.
- Represented agent in syndicated senior loans in $100 million construction draw facility for skilled nursing and assisted living projects across the United States.
- Represented agent for mezzanine lenders in its subordinated debt investment to a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer with a foreign subsidiary.
