Tri Valley Law
A Professional Corporation
High quality, responsive and cost-effective business law representation for the Tri Valley area and beyond
Attorneys

Tri Valley Law is committed to providing you with high quality and cost-effective business law representation.

Education

  • J.D., magna cum laude, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1996.  Articles Editor-Submissions, Cardozo Law Review.
  • B.A., Economics and Psychology, University of California, Davis, 1986. 

Bar Admissions and Affiliations

 

  • Admitted to practice in California and New York
  • Member, American Bar Association, Business Law Section

Prior Affiliations

  • Thelen LLP
  • Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, PC
  • Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky, LLP
  • Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon LLP 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Marc Greendorfer

Marc Greendorfer is the founding partner of Tri Valley Law.  Prior to founding Tri Valley Law, Marc was Special Counsel in the business and finance department of the international law firm Thelen LLP, joining Thelen in New York City and continuing with Thelen's San Francisco office.  Marc has also practiced business law at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco and Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky, LLP in New York City.

Marc has represented public and private business entities in various corporate transactions, including entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placements, venture capital and private equity financing, proxy contests, and tender offers.

Marc has counseled clients and their officers and directors on day-to-day corporate matters, including corporate governance, shareholder issues, securities regulation and compliance and commercial and regularly represents clients in negotiating a variety of intellectual property and consulting agreements.

Representative Matters

Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions

  • Buyer's counsel in the acquisition of two affiliated technology companies by a publicly traded company.
  • Buyer's counsel in multiple $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 acquisitions of California based software companies by a publicly traded company.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $280,000,000 acquisition of a publicly traded medical liability insurance company.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $575,000,000 acquisition of a retail grocery company.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $80,000,000 acquisition of a medical liability insurance company.
  • Company counsel in the merger of a domestic company's European agriculture operations into a newly-formed European joint venture.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $25,000,000 acquisition of an information technology company.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $650,000,000 acquisition of a metals company.
  • Seller's counsel in a $28,000,000 "going private" acquisition of a consumer goods company.
  • Buyer's counsel in asset acquisitions by an entertainment company involving 14 companies totaling $80,000,000.
  • Seller's counsel in a $48,000,000 acquisition of a defense contractor.
  • Buyer's counsel in an acquisition of a shareholder communications company and related equity financing.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $20,000,000 asset acquisition by a media company.
  • Seller's counsel in a $80,000,000 acquisition of an operating division of an industrial manufacturing company.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $220,000,000 acquisition by a diversified energy company.
  • Seller's counsel in a $65,000,000 acquisition of a technology company.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $1,000,000,000 acquisition of financial services company.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $350,000,000 acquisition of a foreign financial services company.
  • Seller's counsel in a $250,000,000 acquisition of an internet-based financial services company.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $29,000,000 acquisition of a graphics production company.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $56,000,000 acquisition of a printing company.
  • Seller's counsel in a series of eight separate asset acquisitions as part of a divestment and reorganization plan.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $314,000,000 acquisition of a division of a winery.

 Equity and Debt Transactions

  • Company counsel in a $30,000,000 initial public offering of a telecommunications company's common stock.
  • Company counsel in a bridge financing, $15,000,000 initial public offering and subsequent private placements of series A and B preferred stock of a software company.
  • Company counsel in a $23,000,000 initial public offering of a circuit design company's common stock.
  • Company counsel in a $8,000,000 initial public offering of a publishing company's common stock.
  • Company counsel in a $19,000,000 initial public offering of a consumer goods company's common stock.
  • Company counsel in a $31,000,000 initial public offering of a service company's common stock.
  • Company counsel in a $100,000,000 shelf registration of common shares, warrants, notes, preferred shares and units of a REIT and $44,000,000 secondary offering of common shares.
  • Company counsel in a $1,597,500,000 Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of fixed rate, variable rate and auction rate bonds issued by a joint venture entity formed by the United States government and a private developer to finance the development of military housing in Hawaii and the related $500,000,000 investment of funds in credit linked derivative securities (transaction was awarded Project Finance Magazine's "Deal of the Year" award for 2005).
  • Company counsel in a $157,500,000 Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of fixed rate bonds issued by a joint venture entity formed by the United States government and a private developer to refinance existing debt used to develop military housing in South Carolina.
  • Company counsel in a $285,480,000 Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of fixed rate bonds issued by a joint venture entity formed by the United States government and a private developer to finance the development of military housing in North Carolina and New York.
  • Company counsel in a $90,000,000 Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of fixed rate bonds issued by a joint venture entity formed by the United States government and a private developer to finance the development of military housing in North Carolina and New York.
  • Company counsel in a $275,000,000 Rule 144A offering of a steel manufacturer's senior notes (and related defeasance of outstanding notes), subsidiary guarantees and $75,000,000 senior credit facility (term loan) and subsequent exchange offer and registration relating to Rule 144A senior notes.
  • Company counsel in a $350,000,000 Rule 144A offering of a holding company's senior, subsequent exchange offer and registration relating to Rule 144A senior notes and related $650,000,000 acquisition of a metals company.
  • Company counsel in a $300,000,000 credit facility for a metals company, including guarantees by international subsidiaries, consisting of a revolving credit facility, a delayed draw term loan facility, a term loan A facility, and term loan B facility.
  • Company counsel in a $500,000,000 Rule 144A offering of senior secured notes of a telecommunications company and subsequent exchange offer and registration relating to Rule 144A senior secured notes.
  • Company counsel in a $125,000,000 senior subordinated notes and $67,000,000 common stock offering by a telecommunications company.
  • Company counsel in a private placement of an entertainment company's preferred stock totaling $30,000,000.
  • Company counsel for the reorganization into a holding company of a publicly traded regulated utility.
  • Lessor's counsel in a $280,000,000 leveraged lease (including 7 subsequent closings) relating to purchase and leaseback of rail cars.
  • Buyer's counsel in a $15,000,000 private placement of convertible senior secured notes and warrants issued by a private financial services software company.
  • Company counsel in a bridge financing consisting of secured promissory notes and warrants to purchase common stock.
  • Company counsel in a $25,000,000 private placement of preferred stock and convertible notes by a wireless telecommunications company.

Representative Clients

  

  • Constellation Software Inc.
  • Jensen Homes, Inc.
  • Kinetek Consulting LLC
  • Ness Technologies Inc.
  • Rosenberg Diamond Development Corp.
  • SVB Financial Group (Silicon Valley Bank)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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