DEALS OF THE YEAR
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
TRANSACTION ATTORNEYS GET BUSY
Puget Sound area business sales and investments grew in 2010. The Puget Sound Business Journal asked the region’s largest
law firms to tell us who led the negotiations. Here are the players behind some of the region’s biggest deals of 2010
Nordstrom invests in Peek
investment in Peek Aren’t You Curious,
a company that designs, makes and
sells children’s apparel and gifts. The
deal, completed in December, makes
Nordstrom the exclusive retailer for
Peek merchandise outside of the San
Francisco-based company’s website
and its stand-alone stores in California,
Arizona and Texas.
Lawyers:
Michael Morgan and
Thomas Grohman
Firm: Lane Powell PC
Deal: Morgan and
Morgan
Grohman worked
with Nordstrom Inc. General Counsel
Robert Sari in Nordstrom’s equity
company Rogers & Norman Inc. in
its sale to publicly traded Brown &
Brown Inc. in September; Seattle-based
Fleischmann Office Interiors Inc. in its
sale to California-based venture capital
company Mighty Oak Capital in June;
Seattle benefits brokerage MCM Inc.’s
combination with Issaquah-based The
Bacic Group in August; and Issaquahbased promotional products wholesaler
SanMar Inc.’s equity investment in Utahbased Ogio International Inc.
Other deals: Morgan had a busy year.
He also represented Seattle insurance
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representative 2010 transactions
Series A preferred
stock offering
Business
combination
with the
Bacic Group
Equity
investment in
OGIO
International,
Inc.
seattle
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Merger with and
into Savings Bank
of Mendocino
County
Investors’ counsel
in recapitalization
of
Endurawood, LLC
Equity
investment in
“Peek...Aren’t
You Curious”
merchandise
line
$94.9M
public offering
of
common stock
Series B preferred
stock offering
$208.7M
public offering
of convertible
preferred stock
$33.3M rights
offering with follow
on public offering
of common stock
Acquisition
of the
Great Links
timeshare
program
Sale of
cereal division to
Hearthside Food
Solutions, LLC, a
portfolio company
of Wind Point
Partners
Sale to
Mighty Oak
Capital
Acquisitions of
Body Imaging,
P.C. and
EPIC ImagingWest, Inc.
Acquisition of
all membership
units of
Black Peak, LLC
Sale to
Brown &
Brown, Inc.
Sale of
Eagle Crest Resort,
Running Y Resort
and Brasada Ranch
Underwriter’s
counsel in
“at-the-market”
public offering of
common stock
of West Coast
Bancorp
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investors and companies on
corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions,
and other transactional matters.
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portland
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