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Barry L. Fischer

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Barry  practices in Thompson Coburn’s Business/Transactional area. His practice includes mergers and acquisitions, securities-related transactions, and general corporate work, often with international aspects.  Barry guides clients through the myriad of issues of purchasing and selling a business, including organizing due diligence reviews for sellers and buyers, structuring efficient sales and acquisition models, interacting with various banking, finance, and accounting persons, and drafting and negotiating of term sheets, letters of intent and definitive documents.

Barry assists clients in a wide array of financing mechanisms for private and public companies, including IPOs, venture capital financings, private equity recapitalizations and financings, private placements, and management equity incentives for private and public companies.

Barry regularly creates sophisticated joint ventures, drafts and advises on employment and equity agreements for executives, and negotiates and counsels on outsourcing, supply and licensing agreements.

Chicago Bar Association
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce – Technology Growth Committee
Represented a 75-office automobile insurance brokerage agency in its sale of substantially all of its assets to a subsidiary.
Represented a privately held designer, manufacturer and distributor of heads-up display units to a Canadian-based military contractor. Major issues included structuring a transaction under which founders/management, a foreign venture capital investor and approximately 100 other shareholders received differing types of consideration, as well as government contracting issues.
Represented the Special Committee of a publicly traded hotel real estate investment trust in connection with its sales for approximately $900 million, including analysis of possible alternate transaction structures, and review and drafting of related Proxy and Information Statement.
Represented client in the formation a joint venture to manufacture Germanium crystals for solar cells, including drafting of Operating Agreements, loan agreements (and subsequent restructuring of those loan agreements) and working with patent counsel on freedom to practice issues regarding the technology.
Represented several foreign private issuers with Rule 144A/Regulation S global note offering in Europe and North America (including restructuring the company into a Dutch corporation), ranging from $150-$300 million, and the subsequent related SEC-registered exchange offers for notes and registration of associated warrants, and securities compliance (including review of Forms 20-F and 6 K).
Changing Aspects And Challenges of Today's Due Diligence Process in Domestic and Foreign Deals (Chapter) Inside the Minds -- Business Due Diligence Strategies (Thompson Reuters) (2011 Edition)
Barry L. Fischer
University of Michigan Law School
J.D., Certificate of Merit, International Law Society, Environmental Law Society (1993)
Northwestern University
B.A., Four-Year National Merit Scholarship Winner (1990)
University of Sussex
Studied History and International Relations (1989)
part of Northwestern University exchange program
Thompson Coburn LLP
Partner (2003-present)
Illinois (1993)