Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

• Advise AMC Entertainment in sale of Hoyts General Cinema South America, Inc. joint venture.
• Advise Ash Grove Cement in sale of lime plant.
• Oversee pet food product recall
• Advise Agrex in purchase of joint venture interest in a grain exporter.
• Multiple biofuels securities offerings and general corporate matters.
• Advise AMC Entertainment in all aspects of acquisition of GC Companies, Inc., out of Chapter 11 for $167 million.
• Advise AMC Entertainment in connection with $250 million equity investment by Apollo Investment Funds.
• Advise Gear for Sports in $210 million refinancing transaction.
• Advise AMC Entertainment in secured credit facility.
• General outside counsel to several technology companies.
• Advise manufacturing client in connection with debt workout leading to eventual sale.
• $50 million Rule 144A note offering and $45 million Senior Credit Agreement for Butler Manufacturing.
• Advisor to Sprint regarding a number of strategic technology alliances.
• Strategic alliance between movietickets.com, AOL Time Warner and Ticketmaster providing for joint access to online movie ticket purchasing.
• Affiliation agreements between Sprint PCS and various independent companies to build out Sprint PCS digital network at a cost over $1 billion.
• Draft and file S-4 Registration Statements for at least five transactions.
• Roll-up transactions valued at $20 million involving NovaMed Eyecare Management, a physician practice management company.
• Over 25 Hart-Scott-Rodino Act filings.
• Other venture capital financings, stock offerings, private placements and conventional financing transactions.
• Technology licensing and strategic equity investments involving a leading research university.
• Formation of several new generation agricultural cooperatives.
• Acquisition of Borden fluid milk business for $425 million, including resolution of antitrust concerns.
• Mergers with Dairymen, Inc., AMPI, MMI and Western Milk Producers that have resulted in client becoming the largest dairy cooperative in the USA.
• Creation of a finance affiliate involving two classes of debt and four classes of equity totaling $200 million raised in Rule 144A offerings.
• Negotiation of "Planet Movies," joint venture with Planet Hollywood to develop entertainment complexes worldwide.
• Venture capital financing and supply alliance between Three Dog Bakery and PETsMART.
• Acquisition of Southern Foods Group for $105 million and formation of operating joint venture.
• Acquisition of Adohr Farms for $65 million and formation of operating joint venture.
• $16 million secondary stock offering for Applebee's International.
• Dutch tender offer stock repurchase totaling $30 million.
• Purchases of block of life insurance business totaling over $25 billion in face value.
• Acquisitions of Whitman's Chocolates.

Areas of Practice

• Technology Transactions
• Equine
• Corporate & General Business
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Antitrust, Competition & Consumer Protection
• Corporate Finance & Securities
• Corporate Governance
• Strategic Alliances

West Practice Categories

Antitrust Law, Business & Commercial Law, Consumer Protection, Unfair Competition

Bar Admissions

• England and Wales, 2000
• Kansas, 1992
• Missouri, 1991

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The Missouri Bar
• Kansas Bar Association
• The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• The American Bar Association
• The Law Society of England and Wales

Honors and Awards

• Order of the Coif
• Moot Court Competition Best Oralist
• Member, Kansas Law Review

Education

• University of Kansas School of Law, 1991
  J.D.
  Honors: cum laude
• Kansas State University, 1988
  B.S.
  Honors: cum laude

Published Works

• Lathrop & Gage Represents AMC Entertainment, Inc. in Sale of Mexican Subsidiary, 2009
• Missouri Farm Law Third Edition, Chapter 10 - Agricultural Cooperatives, 2006

Address

2345 Grand Blvd.
Suite 2800
Kansas City, MO 64108

Phones

(816) 460-5825 (Business Phone)
816-460-5825 (Other Phone)

Faxes

(816) 292-2001 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

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