Frank D. Chaiken

Practices

• Corporate Transactions & Securities
• International

Professional Experience

Frank is a partner in the firm and chair of the firm's Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group. In addition, he serves on the International Practice Committee. Frank focuses his practice on corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, start-ups, joint ventures and commercial agreements and has extensive experience with international transactions. He also serves as general outside legal counsel to a wide range of business clients.

Frank's experience prior to joining the firm in 1993 includes three years as in-house corporate counsel to Sandoz Agro Ltd. based in Basel, Switzerland.

Frank is licensed in Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Education

• Boston College Law School, J.D., 1987, magna cum laude, Member of the Law Review
• University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1986-1987, Visiting Student
• Harvard University, A.B., 1983

• Multiple add-on acquisitions for investment platform of major New York private equity fund, in transactions ranging from $5 million to $25 million
• Manufacturing joint ventures throughout the United States for major Swiss public company
• Represent 50% shareholder and controlling creditor in buy-out of interest in privately-held consumer packaging company
• Divestitures of US chemical manufacturing interests of German public company
• Purchase of petrochemical manufacturing division by German public company
• Organization of US sales and marketing operations of numerous European manufacturing businesses
• Organization of Chinese manufacturing and distribution subsidiaries for US companies
• Strategic alliance for electronic news and information distribution
• Multi-year raw material supply contracts for NYSE/Fortune 500 manufacturing company
• Buy-out of interest in family-owned manufacturing business
• Negotiation of multi-site software license, development, maintenance agreements for privately-held process automation business
• Divestiture of numerous manufacturing divisions of NYSE manufacturing company
• Negotiation of complex marketing and distribution agreement for industrial machinery in connection with corporate restructuring
• Structuring and negotiation of commercial agreements for technology start-up division of multi-national company
• Handling of general contract and business law questions for NYSE/S&P 500 health care services company
• Corporate law advice in connection with 50-state tax restructuring
• Purchase of automotive components manufacturer in Italy
• Purchase of major manufacturer of consumer packaging machinery
• Purchase of commercial rolling door and gate manufacturer
• Purchase of building products installation business
• Purchase of textile and plastics manufacturer in Germany
• Numerous add-on acquisitions for platform business of major private equity firm in the machine manufacturing sector
• Numerous acquisitions of institutional pharmacy services businesses for S&P 500 health care company
• Multinational purchase of electronic materials manufacturing business in US and Asia
• Sale of precision metal casting and valve manufacturing division of NYSE company
• Manufacturing joint ventures in Asia and Europe
• Product and technology licensing agreements
• Product distribution and sales representation agreements
• Employment agreements
• Business organizations and start-ups
• Buy-out of minority interest in U.S. subsidiary by majority shareholder in Germany
• Acquisition of machining assets and facility by industrial manufacturing company
• Purchase of sharer of manufacturer of industrial tools

• "China's New Company Law" · CBA Report, June 2006
• "Mergers & Acquisitions" · Doing Business in and with the United States, Thompson Hine LLP, 1999
• "Going Global" Article Series · Cincinnati Business Courier, 1995-1998
• "Terms of Trade" Newsletter, Huntington Bank, 1998
• "Contract Drafting and Forms" · Counsel's Ohio Form Book, 1997

• "Buying or Selling a Company", Speaker on Legal Beat segment of Business Beat television program on CET, January 25, 2008
• "Private Company and Nonprofit Governance" , Roundtable Participant, November 2006
• "Issues in Private Company Governance", Thompson Hine Client Briefing (Moderator), October 2006
• "China Company Law Revisions", Thompson Hine Women Going Global Series, Spring 2006
• "Doing Business in and with the United States" (presentations to correspondent law firms in Beijing and Shanghai, China), Fall 2005
• "Legal Issues in Doing Business in China" (presentation to Greater Cincinnati Regional Chamber Delegation in Beijing, China), Fall 2005
• “Rechtsfragen zum Vertrieb und Niederlassungsaufbau in den USA” (“Legal Issues in Product Distribution and Subsidiary Operations in the USA”) , joint presentation of the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Stuttgart, Germany, November 2003
• Business Entity Selection, Lorman Education Services, Sept./Nov. 2003
• Corporate Growth Strategies, Thompson Hine LLP Client Briefing, Spring 2003
• Update on Doing Business in China, Joint program of Thompson Hine LLP and Deloitte & Touche, February 2003
• International Business Transactions, Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law, January 2003
• "New Developments in Corporate Responsibility,", Cincinnati Bar Association, Environmental Law Committee, November 2002
• Corporate Growth Strategies, Thompson Hine LLP Client Briefing, Fall 2002
• Midwest International Law Conference, Cincinnati Bar Association (Chair), March 2002
• "Buying and Selling a Business in Ohio", Lorman Education Services, July 2000
• "Enforcement of Judgments Across Borders", Cincinnati Bar Association, International Law Committee, April 2000
• Mergers and Acquisitions, Cincinnati Bar Association, Corporate Counsel Committee, 1998
• Client Briefing on Foreign Corrupt Practices, Thompson Hine LLP, 1997

• Recognized as a BTI Client Service MVP, 2011
• Recognized as a BTI Client Service All-Star, 2010

• German