Laura Nemeth is experienced in general corporate matters with particular experience in securities, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and commercial real estate. She also frequently represents clients in the information technology and renewable energy industries. In 2011, a major transaction for which Laura was lead counsel to the acquiring company received Global M&A Network’s Americas M&A Atlas Award for Food and Beverage Deal of the Year. In 2004 she was listed as an Ohio Super Lawyer. In 2002 she was named to Crain’s Cleveland Business magazine’s 40 Under 40 list, a showcase of the area’s finest young professionals, and was listed in the 2006 edition of Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America.

Laura’s corporate and securities practice includes the representation of both US and non-US private and publicly held corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and other business entities in connection with formation, organization, finance, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and commercial matters. She advises both US publicly traded companies and non-US private issuers in their compliance with US securities laws and non-US clients in bringing their businesses to, and operating their businesses in, the United States.

Her information technology practice involves a broad range of matters for
early-stage and mature technology companies, both private and publicly held, including formation, organization, capitalization and mergers and acquisitions. On behalf of her diverse clientele, she has drafted and negotiated
technology-related agreements such as software licenses, service level agreements, e-commerce agreements, website development, maintenance and hosting agreements, and employment and consulting agreements.

Laura’s renewable fuels practice includes her representation of companies engaged in the manufacturing of ethanol and other biofuels; companies engaged in the production of solar power; and companies engaged in the production of renewable fuels and construction of power generation facilities.

Her real estate practice encompasses a wide range of matters including commercial and industrial property. Laura represents real estate investors and owners ranging in size from individual investors to national institutional investors including publicly traded companies and retirement and pension funds. She advises real estate investors and owners in the acquisition, leasing and disposition of shopping center, mall, apartment, office and warehouse properties.

Active in her community, Laura has served on the Medina County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Board since 1998 and served as its chair from 2002 through 2004. She also has served as a member of the Medina Community Recreation Center Advisory Board since 2001 and she served on the 2002-2003 Medina, Ohio City Charter Review Commission.

Významné transakce

• Counseling a Nasdaq-listed global information technology company in connection with its IPO, a US$200 million Rule 144A placement of senior subordinated convertible notes, a US$103 million private investment in public equity (PIPE) offering of ordinary shares, two underwritten public offerings of ordinary shares and its acquisition via a tender offer valued at US$2 billion.
• Counseling a Nasdaq-listed global information technology company in connection with its US securities law compliance as a foreign private issuer.
• Counseling a US Fortune 500, Nasdaq-listed company in its compliance with US securities laws including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
• Counseling a Canada-based fruit juice and beverage manufacturer in its entrance to the US market through a US$390 million merger with a US-based beverage manufacturer and the financing of that transaction.
• Counseling a Europe-based company in its US$445 million stock acquisition of a US business and weather information services provider; its US$38 million stock and asset acquisition of a US traffic information services provider; and its US$12 million stock acquisition of a US provider of electronic toll collection and intelligent transportation systems.
• Counseling a Latin America-based company in its entrance to the US market through a US$6 million stock acquisition of a project management company.
• Counseling a Europe-based bioenergy company in its entrance to the US market through a US$93 million tender offer to acquire a publicly traded US-based ethanol manufacturer.
• Counseling a privately held US-based bioenergy company in five sale and leaseback transactions, and in the early buyout of one such transaction, involving its manufacturing facilities and its minority investments in and research and development agreements with various private and publicly owned entities.
• Providing counsel to a state pension fund in its investments in various private equity funds, real estate opportunity funds, hedge funds and funds to funds.
• Advising in the formation and initial capital raising of a startup information technology consulting firm and in its ongoing services and licensing agreements.
• Advising a provider of electronic ticketing services in its licensing and services agreements and information technology law matters. 
• Representing a state pension fund in its formation of a joint venture and concurrent acquisition of 14 shopping centers in five states.
• Representing public pension plans in connection with the negotiation and structuring of their limited partnership.