Alan E. Davis

Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

• Representation of selling family LLC whose members have diverse economic and tax interests in valuable income property taking back purchase money mortgage, requiring complex estate planning and tax issues including a tax-deferred §1031 like kind exchange.
• Representation of remaining shareholders related to the liquidation and dissolution of their corporation which had previously merged with a leading New York firm servicing the financial services industry. GRSD handled the original merger and was retained to complete the transaction’s last important step.
• Representation of a client contemplating the sale of real estate and the liquidation and dissolution of a thoroughbred racing stable, breeding, training and boarding operation organized as two pass-through entities and valued at $5 million.
• Representation of an automobile dealership in the sale of its operating business and income real estate valued at over $16 million.
• Representation of a client in its $4 million acquisition of a dual automobile dealership franchise and the real estate on which both dealerships are located in a complex transaction involving numerous real estate, environmental, factory approval, zoning, formation and financing issues. The deal, based in a Southern state, called for coordination with local counsel to close the transaction, which required extensive negotiations with a seller who operated the business for many years. The real estate included a Confederate Army cemetery.
• Representation of a privately held New Jersey-based manufacturer of high performance specialty lubricants in its late 2013 acquisition by a publicly traded company based in Indiana for an undisclosed purchase price. Legal services included participation in valuation of the company, negotiation of price, and drafting of stock purchase and asset purchase agreements, and ancillary documents and environmental concerns as well as family differences.
• Representation of a technology company in a corporate reorganization to fund redemption of its founder’s membership interest in the company.
• Representation of a trade association of approximately 1500 automobile dealers in the liquidation and dissolution of the organization’s assets.
• Representation of the debtor in a workout of a $4.5 million site improvement loan to a multi-make automobile dealership terminated by GM as part of its bankruptcy plan of reorganization.
• Advisor and principal negotiator for multi-family ownership of large middle-market retail auto dealership in its sale to large privately held retail auto group.
• Representation of a privately held specialty manufacturing company in the sale of certain product lines (but with retention of other product lines) coupled with a Toll Manufacturing Agreement. The buyer was a large privately held family office.
• Representation of an 80 year old family distribution business in the purchase of certain assets of a competitor in extensive negotiations over an extended period of time involving many complex issues including human resources, labor and ERISA concerns.