In December 2022, Kegler Brown acted as exclusive legal counsel to Berardi & Partners, Inc. in connection with the sale of 100% of the company’s equity to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”) Trust, and related company reorganization with...
Kegler Brown acted as the legal advisor to System Aire Supply Company/Control Aire Supply Company, a leading East Coast-based heating, ventilation and air conditioning (“HVAC”) distributor in all aspects of its April 2022 sale to Munch’s...
In June 2022, EasyIT, an Ohio-based managed IT support and services company, sold to NetGain Technologies, a multi-state regional IT services and solutions provider. Kegler Brown acted as legal advisor to the seller in all aspects of the transaction.
The M+A team at Kegler Brown advised Schoedinger Funeral and Cremation Service and its affiliated entities in its December 2021 sale to Service Corporation International. Schoedinger Funeral Home, which is based in Columbus and owns and operates 12...
Kegler Brown acted as the legal advisor to Griffin Pavement Striping, a leading provider of road, highway and airport line striping in all aspects of its September 2020 sale to Frontline Road Safety, a portfolio company of The Sterling Group. The...
In March 2021, Air Purchases of New Hampshire, a Northeast-based heating, ventilation and air conditioning distributor, sold to Munch’s Supply, a company with more than 700 employees focused exclusively on supplying heating and cooling industry...
The M+A team at Kegler Brown advised Kent Water Sports and its related entities in its December 2020 sale to Seawall Capital. Kent Water Sports, a platform of action sports brands with products spanning personal flotation devices, wakeboards, water...
Kegler Brown Hill + Ritter assisted India-based Strides Pharma, Inc., in the acquisition of an FDA- approved manufacturing facility in Florida.Located in Riviera Beach, Florida, it is the only FDA-approved facility in the U.S. to have...
Our client, an Ohio-based fitness technology company that creates fitness challenges for businesses and schools utilizing wearable devices, sought our advice throughout 2015 in a tax-free merger with an out-of-state provider of healthcare...
Our client, a food safety consulting and research business, sought our advice for its sale to a private-equity fund in 2017, and we provided them with assistance from letter of intent to closing, as well as post-closing personal and estate...
Ohio salon owners were frustrated that they had never had an organized voice in the public policy landscape. So, in 2013, we successfully allied salon owners throughout the state and established the Ohio Salon Association to give a voice to the...
A client with operations in all 50 states discovered that a bill that would put its company out of business in Indiana was on that state’s General Assembly’s fast track for passage. The client asked Steve Tugend, a Kegler attorney with...
Ohio receives Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding from the federal government to provide assistance to low and moderate income families to subsidize their home energy expenses. Federal law permits states to set aside a...
A major motorcycle and ATV manufacturer designed a new type of vehicle that looks like a motorcycle, but drives like a car, and wanted to change the type of driver’s license required to operate it. Ohio law would have required its drivers to...
The General Assembly, in an attempt to thwart the rise of illegal casinos, authorized the Casino Control Commission to regulate skill-based amusement games. Because of the broad scope of games captured by the new law, the CCC’s rules regulated...
After a change of law opened up to allow for-profit entities to assist in combating Ohio’s opioid crisis, we worked with the State regulators and our client, an operator of outpatient substance abuse treatment clinics, to incorporate best...
In 2017, we represented a subcontractor who has been in business for over 100 years in a dispute involving the work of its sub-subcontractor. Concerning caisson work from 2014 performed in the riverbed of the Scioto River in downtown Columbus,...