Linn S. Harson

Practices

• Corporate Transactions & Securities

Professional Experience

Linn is a partner in the firm's Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. In addition to other client responsibilities, Linn serves as General Counsel and Secretary of Robbins & Myers, Inc., an NYSE company. She focuses her practice on:

• SEC reporting companies with publicly-held debt or equity;
• Privately held companies with annual revenues of at least $20 million;
• Acquisitions or dispositions of companies; and
• Organization and governance of non profit entities.
  
  

Education

• University of Dayton School of Law, J.D., 1996, summa cum laude
• The Ohio State University, B.S., 1988

• Successfully led a publicly-held company in a $600 million acquisition of a publicly-held oilfield services company.
• Lead US counsel in $95 million divestiture of German-based pharmaceutical packaging division of public company.
• Successfully led a publicly-held food processing company in a $100 million acquisition of a business consisting of 4 manufacturing facilities and a $24 million acquisition.
• Successfully led a publicly-held food processing company in a $24 million acquisition.
• Represented a privately-held company in $10 million sale of technology government contracting business.
• Assisted a publicly-held company in acquisition of business with companies in 18 countries outside the United States.
• Regularly assist publicly-held clients in SEC compliance matters, such as Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K and corporate governance matters.
• Routinely handle private placement issuances of equity and implement phantom stock and stock options plans for privately-held companies.

• Author - "Succession Planning - Private Equity or Venture Capital May be the Answer", 2006
• Author - "The New SEC 8-K Rules Require Additional Executive Compensation Disclosure", 2005

• Selected for inclusion in Rising Stars Super Lawyers , 2006