Lee Kiser

Practice Areas

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate Governance

Private Equity Law

Venture Capital Law

Securities Regulation

Professional Memberships

Lee Kiser is a Shareholder in Maynard Nexsen's Private Markets Practice. He represents companies and their founders, sponsors, and management teams in their most meaningful matters, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, reorganizations, corporate governance matters, and other commercial transactions. He has extensive transactional experience ranging from sales of family-owned businesses to multibillion-dollar mergers throughout a number of different industry sectors.

Le Kiser's experience includes representing the following:

Multiple private equity-owned portfolio companies, in add-on acquisitions and ongoing general corporate and contractual matters

Multiple owners of lower- and middle-market businesses, in capital raises and sales to strategic and financial buyers

A public bank holding company, in its $3.6 billion merger of equals with another public bank holding company

A public bank holding company, in its $1.7 billion merger with another public bank holding company

A public bank holding company, in its $1.4 billion merger with another public bank holding company

Multiple other banks and bank holding companies, in mergers and acquisitions

A defense contractor, in a $140 million sale to a private equity buyer

A non-bank lender, in its $100 million acquisition by a Canadian public company

A non–bank lender, in sales of common and preferred equity to a public REIT and other institutional investors

An air cargo logistics company, in a $90 million cross-border sale of the company

A non–bank lender, in financings and sales of loan participation interests to an institutional credit fund

Personal

Lee Kiser was a 3-year letterman football player for Presbyterian College.

Education