Grayson, Chelsea A.

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 private equity 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 new media, 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), Deluxe Corp.'s acquisition of Fidelity Assets (d/b/a MerchEngines) through its subsidiary Hostopia.com, 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
• Capital Markets
• Global Infrastructure
• Energy
• M&A
• Health Care
• Business Transactions/Health Care
• Construction

Representative Cases

• AMPAM receives investment from Key Principal Partners
• Banner Health resolves antitrust litigation brought by Phoenix cardiologists , (2009)
• Casey Company sells Kern Oil & Refining Co.
• CenterSpan Communications Corp acquires Scour
• Dee Sign Co. acquired by various divisions of preeminent Mid-West sign
• Deutsch Company sells Deutsch Dagan Ltd. to Seka Industries Ltd. , (2009)
• Deutsch Company sells Deutsche Metal Components and Permaswage , (2009)
• Ellison Technologies is acquired by Mitsui and Mori Seiki
• Facey Medical acquires medical clinics
• Harman International Industries acquires PhatNoise
• Harmonic Communications places additional shares with Dentsu
• Infrastructure Holdings acquires FNF Construction
• LegalSource is acquired by Uniscribe
• Mandarin Oriental International sells 40% interest in hotel partnership to Kahala Royal Corp
• MerchEngines acquired by Deluxe Corporation , (2009)
• Mobile digital entertainment company issues Series C preferred stock in a private placement
• New Age Electronics acquired by Synnex , (2009)
• PackageX issues Series A Preferred Stock
• PackageX issues subordinated convertible notes
• The Deutsch Group completes sale to WENDEL Investissement , (2009)
• Trillium Digitial merges with Intel , (2009)
• Universal Electronics and Maxim purchase Zilog universal remote control and secure transaction businesses , (2009)

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
• U of California - Los Angeles

Published Works

• Closing the Tough Deal, The Deal Magazine, 2009
• Healthcare Acquisitions in Troubled Times, Healthcare Review, 2002

Address

555 South Flower Street
Fiftieth Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071-2300

Phones

1.213.243.2719 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.213.243.2539 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

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