Kaufman & Canoles provided employee benefits acquisition support to the nation's largest building supplies distributor, supporting over 20 acquisitions totaling approximately $1.5 billion in transaction value across two fiscal years.
Kaufman & Canoles serves as ongoing legal counsel for an $83 million ESOP, executing a $14 million stock redemption transaction and refinancing nearly $20 million in outstanding exempt loans in 2023.
K&C provides comprehensive ongoing employee benefits counsel to a publicly traded bank and financial services firm with over $1.5 billion market cap, advising on complex retirement and welfare plans covering 3,000+ participants and $200+ million in assets.
K&C represented seller parties in a $100+ million cardiology practice sale to a physician-led organization backed by multiple private equity sponsors, featuring complex F reorganization structuring and buy-side insurance coverage that eliminated seller indemnity obligations.
Kaufman & Canoles guided the complex integration of an independent medical school into a public university system, securing $60 million in additional annual state support through a statutory merger that created a new health sciences division.
Kaufman & Canoles successfully negotiated a 25-year extension of a Management Services Agreement covering over $100 million in annual revenue, managing the complex shareholder approval process involving 40 oncologists in a transaction valued at $260 million.
Kaufman & Canoles represented the seller in a $100+ million sale of a nationwide trade school network to a private equity-backed buyer, which included complex restructuring and enabled one of the largest charitable donations to a Virginia museum in state history.
K&C represented an electrical contractor and its shareholders in a $40 million sale to a publicly traded construction company, involving complex corporate restructuring and sophisticated earn-out provisions.
K&C represented a regional healthcare provider in negotiating a $50 million hospital construction contract with a national construction company through a nearly year-long process involving comprehensive revisions to standard AIA terms.
Kaufman & Canoles represented a minor league baseball club in a $47 million sale of their franchise to a private equity firm, navigating complex regulatory approvals from Minor League Baseball along with significant real estate, intellectual property, employment, and tax considerations.
K&C secured a decisive $8 million arbitration award for a regional mechanical contractor in a federal hospital construction dispute, where the client faced potential $13 million in adverse judgments, but the arbitrator completely vindicated the client's position and rejected all opposing counterclaims.