Jeffrey L LaBine

Practice Areas

Mr. LaBine’s practice concentrates on mergers and acquisitions and corporate law and governance matters. He has been engaged in notable matters that include domestic and cross-border transactions, leveraged buyouts, corporate restructurings and takeovers. He also advises on venture capital and commercial financing, private equity and debt offerings and has counseled management and boards of directors concerning acquisition matters, conflict transactions, corporate governance and other significant issues. His clients have included Carl Zeiss AG, Rassini, S.A.B. de C.V., AK Steel Corp., Workforce Software, Inc., Numatics, Inc., Compu-Quote Inc., Certent, Inc., La-Z-Boy, National Credit Union Administration, Siris Capital Group, Sverica Capital Management, K1 Private Investors, and Brose AG.

Career

A Senior Principal at Miller Canfield, he serves as the firm’s Corporate and Transactions Group Leader and is the Resident Director of the firm’s New York office.

Professional Memberships

Mr. LaBine currently serves as the Co-Chair of the International Mergers and Acquisitions Subcommittee of the ABA Mergers and Acquisitions Committee and is a member of the Michigan, New York State, and American bar associations.

Personal

JD, Magna Cum Laude; Order of the Coif, Wayne State Law School; BBA, Detroit College of Business; AAS, Schoolcraft College; United States Air Force, 1982-88

Experience

Jeff has represented public and private clients in a variety of U.S. and international transactions including negotiated acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, auctions, carve-out transactions, strategic investments, reorganizations, joint ventures and other corporate matters including representation of:

Carl Zeiss Meditec in the nine-figure acquisition of micro-interventional cataract surgery technology solutions provider lanTECH, Inc.

Simon Property Group, Inc., in connection with its pending $9.5 billion USD acquisition of Taubman Centers, a real estate investment trust, and acquisition of an 80% stake in Taubman Realty Group

Carl Zeiss Meditec in eight-figure sale of hydrophilic intraocular lens manufacturing division spin-out and sale to Shanghai Haohai Biological Technology Co., Ltd.

Siris Capital Group, LLC and Digital River, Inc. in the eight-figure sale of Blue Hornet Networks, Inc. to Marlin Equity Partners

Second City Capital Partners II, LP, on nine-figure spin-out and "roll up" of more than 20 companies holding 16 office properties consisting of 1.85 million sq. ft. of rentable space in five states, and the initial public offering of City Office REIT, Inc.'s common stock

WorkForce Software, LLC on the nine-figure majority investment by New York-based Insight Venture Partners

Certent, Inc., the world's largest SaaS stock plan software provider to both public and private companies, in its acquisitions of (i) DisclosureNet, Inc., Canada's recognized leader in SaaS solutions that improve the quality of external and internal reporting, comparison and analysis software (ii) Rivet Software, Inc., the third-largest (by filings) public company financial filings and XBRL tagging service provider in the US in stock acquisition and (iii) OptionAdmin, Inc. a recognized leader in the field of corporate equity management in an asset acquisition

Compu-Quote, Inc., Canada's largest insurance rating and broker services company, in a nine-figure stock and asset sale to Applied Systems, Inc., a Bain Capital portfolio company

The Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority in its acquisition of Cobo Center from the City of Detroit

NCAA in its acquisition of the NIT Tournament

Michigan's largest multispecialty physician practice group companies in asset sale to one of Michigan's leading physician group practices

Beacon Specialized Living Services, Michigan's largest specialized living facilities provider, in eight-figure restructuring, spin-out and sale to Pharos Capital Partners III, L.P.

The Bartech Group, in eight-figure equity sale to U.S. private equity firm and concomitant creation of only the second certified Minority Controlled Business under NMSDC Growth Initiative

Selling shareholders of Swedish multinational industrial safety products company in an eight-figure stock sale to US NYSE-traded company

NASDAQ traded company in an eight-figure subsidiary asset sale

Multinational automotive parts supplier in sale of stock and assets of subsidiaries in 18 country product line disposition to private equity fund

NASDAQ traded company in eight-figure subsidiary stock sale

Education