Margaret Walrath’s practice focuses on securities, and mergers and acquisitions. Margaret’s experience includes drafting registration statements and prospectuses, and coordinating responses to SEC comments. She also guides clients through private placement transactions and related documentation including purchase agreements, warrants, certificates of designations and registration rights agreements.

Her M&A experience includes drafting and negotiating acquisition agreements, financing documents, employment agreements and opinions.

Margaret studied abroad at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Representative Experience

• Representing clients in their ongoing Securities Act and Exchange Act compliance in connection with capital raising efforts and ongoing operations.
• Advising an investment bank in its underwriting of multiple public offerings.
• Representing an investment manager in its “underwritten” private placement of shares.
• Representing a pharmaceutical company in connection with multiple registration statements.
• Advising a multinational mining company in the sale of its subsidiary in South America.
• Representing a group of private equity buyers in the US$17.1 billion leveraged buyout of a grocery chain.
• Representing a brand management company in its US$175 million acquisition of media licensing rights, its US$153 million joint venture and its US$26 million acquisition of a family of household brands.
• Advising a Canada-based seafood company in its ₤18 million strategic acquisition of a UK-based seafood company.
• Representing a major investment bank in its acquisition of a minority interest in an alternative asset manager.
• Advising a communications firm in its borrowing of CAD$625 million under syndicated term and revolving secured credit facilities.
• Representing a ship management company in its acquisition of several US-flagged vessels. 
• Advising multiple clients on their ongoing corporate and operational matters.