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.
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