Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Chelsea Grayson advises emerging and established companies, focusing primarily on mergers and acquisitions, distressed mergers and acquisitions, private placements of equity and debt securities (both issuer and venture capital fund representations), general corporate counseling, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and importation and distribution transactions. She has extensive experience in a broad array of industries, including infrastructure/engineering and construction, building products, technology, manufacturing, aerospace and defense, oil and gas, alternative energy, health care, retail, and entertainment.

Chelsea's representative M&A transactions include: Universal Electronic's acquisition of Zilog's universal remote control business (involving a simultaneous acquisition of other Zilog assets by Maxim Integrated Products), Infrastructure Holdings' acquisition of FNF Construction, Wendel Investissement's acquisition of The Deutsch Group, Stirling Square Capital Partners' acquisition of Deutsch Metal Components and Permaswage S.A.S., Intel's acquisition of Trillium Digital Systems, Kahala Royal's acquisition of certain partnership interests from Mandarin Oriental Holdings, SYNNEX's acquisition of New Age Electronics, Mitsui and Mori Seiki's acquisition of Ellison Technologies, and CenterSpan Communication's acquisition of Scour.

Other companies with which Chelsea has worked include Activision, American Greetings, Aramark, CBS TV, Experian, Harman International, Kern Oil, Los Angeles Export Terminals, Mattel, Milus International, MAPEI SpA and MAPEI Corporation, Phillips Industries, Proteus Energy, Seguin Moreau, Sunkist Growers, and Thales Avionics.

Chelsea currently serves on the board of directors of the Legal Division of The Jewish Federation.

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• M&A
• Capital Markets
• Global Infrastructure
• Construction
• Energy
• Health Care
• Business Transactions/Health Care

Representative Cases

• Acquisition
• Acquisition by Intel
• Acquisition by Mitsui and Mori Seiki
• Acquisition by SYNNEX
• Acquisition by Uniscribe
• Acquisition by Wendel Investissement , (2007)
• Acquisition of PhatNoise
• Acquisition of Zilog , (2009)
• Buyout
• Distressed acquisition
• Investment by Key Principal Partners
• Lab assets acquisition
• Mandarin Oriental Sale
• Medical clinics acquisitions
• Private Placement
• Private placement
• Private placement
• Private Placement
• Sale of Deutsch Dagan Ltd. to Seka Industries Ltd.
• Sale of Kern Oil & Refining Co.
• Sale of Metal Connectors Business

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Disability, Dissolution, Elder Law, Food & Drug Administration, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Health & Health Care Law, Hospital Law, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Nursing Home, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Social Security -- Disability, Trade Associations

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• Loyola Marymount Univ - CA

Published Works

• Healthcare Acquisitions in Troubled Times, Healthcare Review, 2002

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