Dynda Thomas is deputy practice leader of Squire Sanders’ Corporate Transactions, Finance & Governance Practice Group and has extensive experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and project finance. She has had principal responsibility for numerous mergers, acquisitions and dispositions for public and private companies in a wide range of sell-side and buy-side auctions and negotiated transactions.

Dynda is chair of the Programs Committee, a member of Council and vice chair of the Infrastructure Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Public Utility, Communications and Transportation (PUCAT) Law Section, having also spent three years as the co-editor of the Section’s newsletter. Dynda is also the liaison of the ABA’s PUCAT Law Section to the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession. Dynda is listed in the 2011 edition of Legal 500 US for her mergers and acquisition practice and has been recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer in Law & Politics magazine continuously since 2007.

She is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.

Reprezentatywne doświadczenie

• Representing multiple prospective purchasers in various auction bid processes for manufacturers, electric generation facilities and industrial companies.
• Advising on the US$265 million purchase of a 500 MW power gas-fired, electric generating plant in Texas.
• Serving as counsel to an aerospace infrastructure manufacturer in the auction purchase of an optical systems business unit (including engineering, intellectual property and government contracts) for US$163 million.
• Serving as counsel to an aerospace infrastructure manufacturer in the auction sale of its avionics systems manufacture and component overhaul and repair business for US$188 million to a developer of specialized systems for satellite, avionics and marine communications.
• Handling for a leading global aerospace and industrial equipment manufacturer the purchase of a Georgia-based manufacturer, distributor, marketer and seller of personal care and pharmaceutical products.
• Representing the world's largest tire company in the US$80 million sale of its global tire fabric operations to a South Korea-based multinational. The transaction involved tire fabric manufacturing operations in Alabama, New York, Brazil and Luxembourg.
• Representing an industrial company on a US$50 million sale of its steel cord manufacturing business with operations in the United States and Europe, including a continuing technology development agreement and global supply agreement.
• Advising a Fortune 500 industrial manufacturing company on a transaction in which a subsidiary of a national wheel and tire manufacturing company entered into a definitive agreement to purchase a division of our client for approximately US$100 million.
• Leading a Japan-based printing and communications company in the creation of a joint venture with a US-based company.
• Advising on the US$210 million sale of a US- and Europe-based wind power generation business.
• Advising on the US$55 million acquisition of an electricity transmission and distribution business in Ohio.
• Representing an investment bank in credit support of a wind farm project under development in Ohio.
• Advising creditors of seller on the US$329 million sale of a Spain-based power project company with a facility under construction.
• Advising on the US$177 million sale of a power plant in Puerto Rico.
• Advising on the post-closing purchase price adjustment in the US$210 million sale of a US- and Europe-based wind power generation business.