Jane A. Meyer

Jane A. Meyer is a Partner and a member of the Corporate practice. Her primary practice area is Mergers and Acquisitions, with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance.

Her practice focuses on advising buyers, sellers and professional investors in connection with their acquisition, disposition and investment activities, primarily in the private equity middle markets, including negotiating and drafting senior, mezzanine and equity financing documents; joint venture agreements among partnering funds; and investment, acquisition and disposition agreements. A large part of her work is on cross-border transactions, working closely with Dentons colleagues around the globe.

As outside general counsel for a number of companies, she assists with the management of a range of legal issues, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances; licensing agreements and other IP-related contractual documents; employment and separation agreements; equity incentive plans; corporate governance matters; and supply and distribution agreements.

She has represented clients across a variety of industry sectors, including construction and building supplies; cosmetics; travel; telecommunications (internet, wireless, radio and cable television); newspaper and other print media; e-commerce; video editing software; health care and pharmaceuticals; and manufacturing and distribution. Her clients range in size and sophistication from large multinational corporations to early-stage ventures.

Her private equity and SBIC fund practice focuses on portfolio company structure and management, growth equity, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts and recapitalisations.

Her representative experience includes acting for the seller in relation to the sale of all the issued and outstanding shares of MaxBounty, ULC to German-based fund Mrge; representing The Blackstone Group and its portfolio Schenck Process Group of companies in respect of the acquisition of the Raymond Bartlett Snow business from the ARVOS Group, a portfolio of the Triton Private Equity Group; and representing BlueArc Capital Partners LLC and their investment partner Merit Capital in the acquisitions of Choice Brands Adhesives, LTD. and Slocum Adhesives Corporation.

She also represented Spire Capital Partners in connection with its acquisition of Veraction, a transportation-spend management and freight audit solutions provider; represented a privately held medical managed care service provider in connection with its $110 million acquisition of a competitor and its $300 million disposition to a US subsidiary of a Canadian private equity company; and represented a sports marketing company in its $100 million sale to a publicly traded UK media company.

Other matters include representing a privately held software development company in connection with its $38 million senior credit facility; representing a privately held multinational video effects company in connection with its reorganisation and $150 million financing and subsequent $30 million senior credit facility; representing The Valence Group on its acquisition by Piper Sandler Companies; and representing ANI Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of four NDAs and US rights to market ATACAND®, ATACAND HCT®, ARIMIDEX® and CASODEX® from AstraZeneca AB and AstraZeneca UK Limited, with a purchase price consisting of US$46.6 million in cash, certain sales-based milestones and a royalty under a licence agreement, along with a five-year US$125 million senior secured credit facility with Citizens Bank, N.A.

She also represented Autonomous Research LLP in connection with its sale to AllianceBernstein; represented family-owned French dairy Lactalis Group in its purchase of The Icelandic Milk and Skyr Corporation, maker of Siggi's Yogurt, via a cash merger; and represented BW Canada Holdco ULC/Brett West in connection with the acquisition of the assets of Max Bounty, a digital advertising company in the affiliate marketing space located in Ottawa, Canada, with senior and mezzanine financing provided by The Royal Bank of Canada and BDC Capital.

She holds a JD from New York University School of Law (1993) and a BA in Economics, cum laude, from Wellesley College (1988).