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"Gunster Yoakley's Securities Practice Group consistently provides the kind of legal assistance we need - fast turnaround and practical, business oriented advice. Its securities attorneys know the law, but they consider it in the context of our company. When you combine that with their responsiveness and their ability to anticipate our needs, you end up with the bottom line - Gunster Yoakley helps us to be a better company."

Robert J. DeFranco
Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Bankrate, Inc.

Whether you run a growing business or serve as in-house counsel to one, you need attorneys with the breadth of legal and business knowledge, international experience and skill necessary to advise your company from the first round of financing to the initial public offering and beyond. The attorneys of Gunster Yoakley's Securities/Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups have worked at some of the best-known Wall Street law firms; others have honed their skills as in-house counsel to Fortune 500 companies. As a result of their collective experience, Gunster Yoakely provides clients with the business orientation and quality legal counsel expected from a major money-center law firm. At the same time, Gunster Yoakley's orientation to small-and-mid cap companies embraces clients sometimes overlooked by other large law firms.

As a full-service law firm, Gunster Yoakley provides your business with a full range of corporate legal services. We are committed to providing the highest level of service and business-oriented counsel to each client at every stage of growth.

Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions Attorneys

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Michael V. Mitrione

Service Areas

  • Business Formation
  • Private Placements
  • Public Offerings
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
  • Public Company Disclosure
  • Shareholder Communication and Press Relations
  • Proxy Statements and Voting Matters
  • Executive Compensation
  • Stock Exchange/NASDAQ Listings and Compliance
  • Counseling Boards of Directors and Board Committees
  • Insider Reporting and Restricted Stock Transactions

Representative Matters

  • Handled the $165,000,000 sale of Terminix International's pest control business, which included transferring assets from over 1,000 locations in 37 states.
  • Handled the sale of a telecommunication electronics business to a multi-national conglomerate based in the United Kingdom for total consideration in excess of $25,000,000.
  • Represented CruisePath Network (formerly GoCruiseDirect.com, Inc.) in its first and second rounds of financing, including the private placement of redeemable convertible preferred stock and convertible debentures and warrants to affiliates of Sabre Inc. and The Destination Group, Inc.
  • Represented Todhunter International in its $21,000,000 purchase of a rum distillery business based in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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