Marc is Managing Partner of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz and is engaged in a comprehensive securities, commercial finance and corporate law practice.  He represents publicly and privately-held clients in capital raising transactions, providing advice from the capitalization of start-up companies to the recapitalization or restructuring of established businesses.  Marc is actively involved in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices, having advised clients in a wide range of transactions, including technology and e-commerce, banking, health care, consumer products, logistics, manufacturing, oil and gas, and real estate.  He also advises publicly-held companies and regulated broker-dealers and investment advisors on compliance with the rapidly changing federal and state securities laws and regulations.

Some of Marc’s recent experience includes representing:

Private Equity/Venture Capital

• A private equity sponsor with the leveraged recapitalizations and consolidations of several leading privately-held clinical drug testing companies in transactions totaling $126 million
• A private equity client in the acquisition of a pet supply company
• A private equity group in a $44 million acquisition and related financing of a leading provider of airport ground handling services to the air cargo industry
• A private equity group with the $22 million leveraged recapitalization of a consumer products company located in Southeastern U.S.
• A $25 million private equity fund formed to invest in wholesale distribution and logistics organizations in the middle market
• A private equity client in the formation of a $15 million fund focused on investing in Israeli technology companies desiring to establish U.S. operations in the Great Lakes Region
• A private equity fund in the acquisition of a golf apparel and equipment company, including entering into a 30-year license for use of the trade marks
• An internet video streaming company through its early rounds of “angel” and venture capital financing totaling $13 million, development of its employee stock option plan and a strategic acquisition of a company providing complementary video streaming hardware

Securities

• A publicly-held insurance holding company in a $45 million secondary offering
• A publicly-held diverse manufacturing company in an exchange offer for $65 million of publicly-held bonds and the restructuring of $50 million of senior bank debt
• A stockholder in a hostile proxy contest for control of a publicly-held real estate investment trust and subsequent roll-up of properties controlled by the stockholder into the REIT
• A publicly-held company in establishing a subsidiary to sell its products over the internet, including the initial capital raising
• A publicly-held natural gas utility company in a $15 million rights offering
• A broker-dealer registered with the National Association of Securities Dealers in an investigation of insider trading involving a public company
• A retail eyewear company in its initial public offering, subsequent secondary offering and eventual acquisition in a public tender offer in a $65 million public tender offer

Mergers and Acquisitions

• A diverse manufacturing company in a series of transactions valued at over $175 million
• An automobile dealer group in related sales transactions with a total sale price of over $30 million
• The board of directors of a publicly-held Ohio bank holding company in a contested merger and another bank holding company
• A publicly-held medical insurance holding company to acquire additional medical insurance companies with combined assets of more than $650 million
• A publicly-held manufacturing company with net sales in excess of $300 million in the formation and strategic acquisition of businesses located in the United States and several foreign countries
• A publicly-held manufacturer in the $94 million sale of a primary business segment
• A publicly-held natural gas utility in a $37.9 million acquisition of several utilities

Technology

• A start-up company with the first ever license granted by Microsoft® to a company using a non-Windows® operating system
• A start-up telecommunications networking company in structuring a limited liability company and its initial capital raising
• A provider of business continuity, disaster avoidance and recovery services and co-location solutions and technologies
• A provider of web-based employment screening solutions, assisting in corporate formation, capitalization and customer agreements
• A start-up teleradiology services business, assisting in corporate formation, capitalization, and radiologist and customer agreements
• A start-up wireless LED lighting company, advising on corporate formation, public/private partnerships, intellectual property protection and capital raising

International

• A publicly-held company in establishing its overseas operations in China and Mexico
• A vertical acquisition by a manufacturer of one of its suppliers in China
• A distributor of technologically enhanced granite and marble in the acquisition of the product’s Italian based manufacturer and patent holder
• A purchaser of an offshore trust administration company with branches in the Bahamas, Geneva, Channel Islands and Canada

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