The attorneys in Gombos Leyton’s business law practice provide comprehensive legal services. We offer strategic advice, diverse professional experience, and extensive relationships to help our clients achieve their business goals.

Whether you are looking to sell your small or midsized business or seeking guidance about complying with a complicated maze of regulatory, antitrust, or securities law issues, it will be as important to us as it is to you.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Our mergers and acquisitions lawyers will guide you through the entire process from the letter of intent to closing—contributing at each step an in-depth understanding of complex legal matters and industry-specific issues.  When other skills are needed, our M&A team draws from other firm resources to provide the employment, regulatory, and litigation components that a successful transaction sometimes requires. 

Representative Matters:

• Represented seller in $128 million sale of third-party payment processing company to publicly owned company.
• Advised seller in developing strategic plan for auction purchase of medical laboratory, resulting in $8 million sale to national medical laboratory.
• Represented seller in $350 million asset sale of foreign medical school to publicly traded company.
• Represented seller in $50 million asset sale of a manufacturing company to private equity group.
• Represented seller in $185 million asset sale of private, for-profit educational institutions to nonprofit company.
• Represented nonprofit buyer in $29 million purchase of career college.

Banking and Finance

The Firm’s transactional attorneys also have experience in a variety of corporate and private lending scenarios, having represented lenders and borrowers in a variety of commercial loan transactions, including structuring, negotiating, documenting, and closing commercial loans secured by or based on all forms of real estate and personal property.

Our experience includes assisting clients with public and private debt offerings and providing strategic advice regarding various debt instruments and vehicles, including term and revolving credit loans, secured and unsecured loans, working capital and acquisition loans, single-lender and syndicated loans, single and multiple currency loans, asset-based loans, corporate or cash flow loans, subordinated debt and other mezzanine financings, aircraft and equipment financing, project finance loans, loan sales and participations, accounts receivable securitization transactions, and letter of credit and other credit and liquidity support devices.

• Represented issuer in $200 million public debt offering.
• Represented issuer in $20 million private placement of bank notes.
• Represented lender in $50 million agricultural loan.
• Represented lender in $100 million syndicated revolving line of credit loan.

Bankruptcy Debtor /Creditor Rights

Gombos Leyton’s transactional attorneys also represent clients in bankruptcy and financial reorganization situations, including Chapter 11 reorganizations. We routinely represent both creditors and debtors in situations where a bankruptcy filing may be necessary to preserve their respective rights in restructuring, bankruptcy, and reorganization scenarios.   

As experienced litigators and skilled negotiators, we are prepared to work within the court process that underlies the bankruptcy system.  Our bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights lawyers have decades of experience in business and commercial law, which enable them to understand the nuances of distressed business situations.