Olshan Law: Attorney Profiles: Jonathan H. Deblinger

JONATHAN H. DEBLINGER
Associate / New York

Jonathan H. Deblinger practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities law and general corporate matters. Mr. Deblinger represents both publicly-traded and privately-held companies in a wide range of industries. His principal experience includes representing buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions with operating companies and private equity firms. He also assists public companies with the preparation and filing of 1933 Act registration statements and 1934 Act reports and registration statements, including, in connection with ongoing SEC compliance, rights offerings, secondary offerings, registered direct offerings, PIPEs and tender offers, and various related issues including going private, compliance with Section 16 of the 1934 Act, Rule 144 of the 1933 Act, deregistration and blue sky.

Mr. Deblinger also has experience in general business matters, including representing hedge funds, venture capital funds and other startup companies in their formation, capital raising and investments, executive compensation matters, compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other strategic business relationships.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Represented NYSE-listed company in an $800 million merger with a private equity firm

• Represented Nasdaq-listed company in a $600 million merger with a private equity firm

• Represented Nasdaq-listed company in a $220 million merger with a New York Stock Exchange listed company

• Represented a financial information company in the purchase of numerous U.S. and international subsidiaries

• Represented an international financial information company in the multiple purchases of U.S. subsidiaries and the divesture of its U.S. operations

• Represented a Nasdaq-listed company in four separate sales of its operating units during 2010

• Represented a private restaurant company in its sale to a private equity firm and its founders

• Represented a former Nasdaq-listed company in the sale of various assets through bankruptcy auctions

Securities

• Represented a Nasdaq-listed company, in multiple Registered Direct Offerings valued in the aggregate in excess of $100 million

• Represented numerous listed companies (Nasdaq, NYSE, Amex and OTCBB) in self tender offers (including dutch self tender offers) of shares of their common stock valued in the aggregate in excess of $125 million

• Represented numerous listed companies (Nasdaq and OTCBB) in Rights Offerings

• Represented numerous listed companies (Nasdaq and OTCBB) in PIPE Offerings

• Represented a Nasdaq-listed company in its capital restructuring and $20 million underwritten public offering

• Represented numerous companies in Regulation D offerings

• Represented a private company in a Regulation A offering

Funds/Startups/Restructurings

• Represented Internet media company in its formation, private placement financings, PIPE financings, reverse merger, a $47 million leveraged debt financing and a $52 million acquisition

• Represented various start-up companies, including hedge funds and operating companies, in their formation and initial private placements

• Represented numerous venture capital funds in follow-on investments in portfolio companies

• Represented numerous private companies in restructurings of debt and equity and sales of preferred stock

• Represented a private company in a restructuring to avoid bankruptcy

BAR ADMISSIONS
2004, New York