Focus Areas
Representative merger/acquisition transactions in which Dave has represented clients include:
- Principal transaction counsel in the $2.5 billion sale of a NYSE listed manufacturing company
- Principal transaction counsel in the $600 million acquisition of a NYSE listed oil field equipment manufacturer
- Principal transaction counsel for the acquisition by a public company of a $525 million marketing services company
- Principal transaction counsel in both the purchase and the sale of manufacturing businesses for a very large Swiss-based industrial equipment manufacturer
- Principal transaction counsel for the $200 million sale of a family-owned international industrial services company
- Principal outside counsel in the acquisition or divestiture of nearly 20 businesses by a large international legal services provider
- Representation of a large, family-owned construction and real estate investment company in a restructuring/spinoff to resolve family disagreement
- “Whose Privilege Is It? The Attorney-Client Privilege in M&A Transactions,” Thompson Hine Business Law Update, Summer 2019
- “SEC Addresses Exemption for Sales of Securities to Employees,” Thompson Hine Business Law Update, Fall 2018
- “Ohio Changes Duty Requirements for Limited Liability Companies,” Thompson Hine Business Law Update, Fall 2016
- “New Ohio Corporation Law Provisions Define Officers’ Fiduciary Duty, Limit Liability,” Thompson Hine Corporate Law Update, July 2016
- “‘Fix’ May Be on the Way for Controversial Ohio Limited Liability Company Act Provision,” Thompson Hine Business Law Update, Winter 2016
- “Supreme Court: Defendants May Rebut Basic, Inc. Presumption of Reliance Before Class Certification,” Thompson Hine Corporate Law Update, June 23, 2014
- Selected as an Acritas Star, a “client-nominated, stand-out lawyer”
- AV® Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Named in Legal 500 United States (Middle-Market M&A), 2015 to 2018
- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© since 1997 for Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Securities/Capital markets Law
- Named the Best Lawyers® 2012 Corporate Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Dayton
- Selected to the Ohio Super Lawyers list, 2005 to 2008 and 2010 to 2012
- Dayton Business Journal’s Best of the Bar, 2005
Professional Associations
- Ohio State Bar Association
- Dayton Bar Association
Community Activities
- American Veterans Heritage Center, trustee and secretary
- Dayton Area League of Women Voters, counsel
- Tecumseh Land Trust, secretary and executive committee
- Yellow Springs Historical Society, president and trustee
Education
- The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, J.D., 1979, summa cum laude,
Order of the Coif
- Miami University, B.A., 1976, cum laude,
Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
- Business Law Update – Summer 2019,
Thompson Hine Newsletter
, August 14, 2019