Gregory R. Hall

Partner

Emailgreg.hall@us.dlapiper.com

About

Greg Hall is a corporate and securities lawyer with more than 30 years of experience advising publicly-traded and privately-held clients across a range of industries. His practice is focused on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, strategic transactions, securities offerings and other financings, going private transactions, restructurings, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

With a commitment to forging long-term relationships that have spanned decades with a myriad of sophisticated clients, Greg has facilitated more than 60 M&A transactions for a single client. With deals that are valued into the hundreds of millions of dollars, Greg guides clients from across the country and around the world through domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; capital markets transactions, including public and private offerings of equity and debt securities; tender offers and exchange offers; domestic and international joint ventures; venture capital and private equity transactions; bank financings; and debt restructurings.

Greg has successfully negotiated and closed numerous initial public offerings (IPOs) and follow-on securities offerings for technology, manufacturing, airline and transportation, national retail chain and business services companies, as well as advises on high-yield and investment grade note offerings and private investment in public equity (PIPE) transactions for issuers. He has also closed M&A deals for a global transportation company, a national equipment rental company, an international manufacturing company and a national retail chain, among many others. Notably, Greg represents high-tech companies in acquiring and divesting related high-tech companies and subsidiaries.

Moreover, Greg has served as lead counsel to businesses involved in billions of dollars of restructuring transactions on behalf of airlines, gaming organizations and logistics companies. In addition, Greg advises on corporate, securities and business-related matters that impact corporate policy and strategy such as securities law disclosure and compliance, equity incentive plans and executive employment agreements. He has negotiated numerous employment agreements on behalf of CEOs and other executives, as well as represents both Delaware and Nevada corporations in implementing anti-takeover defenses.

Areas of FocusConsumer Goods, Food and Retail Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Capital Markets and Public Company Advisory

Bar admissionsArizonaColorado

CourtsArizona Supreme CourtUnited States District Court for the District of Arizona

EXPERIENCE

Representative Clients

AMERCO (U-Haul International)
Amtech Systems
Axway
Dragados, S.A.
Inventure Foods
Mesa Air Group
Mobile Mini
Sunstate Equipment Co.
SuperShuttle International
Transdev North America
Transdev On Demand
Water Movers

Representative Transactions

Securities Offerings

Mesa Air Group US$125 million initial public offering of common stock
Mobile Mini US$200 million 144A note offering coupled with a tender offer and consent solicitation
Amerco US$300 million shelf offering
Numerous IPOs and follow-on securities offerings, including offerings for technology, manufacturing, airline and transportation, national retail chain and business services companies
Numerous high-yield and investment grade note offerings, ranging from US$100 million to US$300 million, including note offerings of mining, national retail chain, airline, equipment rental company and financial services companies
Numerous PIPE transactions for issuers, including transactions involving equipment rental, airline, software and other technology companies

Mergers and Acquisitions

Inventure Foods sale pursuant to a negotiated tender offer with Utz Quality Foods
Representation of Spanish conglomerate in its acquisition of a large US construction firm
Representation of a Canadian-based technology company in its acquisition of technology companies based in California and Arizona
Representation of an Australian-based company in its acquisition of a US-based company engaged in data center design and build processes
Representation of a US airline in its establishment of a joint venture in Hawaii
Numerous M&A transactions for a national transportation company
Numerous M&A transactions for a national equipment rental company
Numerous M&A transactions for an international manufacturing company
Representation of high tech companies in the acquisition and disposition of related high tech companies and subsidiaries
Numerous M&A transactions for a national retail chain

Restructuring Transactions

Gregory has played an active role on the corporate side of billions of dollars of restructuring transactions, including the following matters:

Lead corporate counsel to a US airline in its successful emergence from Chapter 11 proceedings
Restructuring of US$170 million of senior convertible notes for a regional airline (including successful tender offer and exchange offer transactions)
Restructuring of US$1.4 billion in debt for a Southwest-based airline
Representation of senior convertible notes for a public company in the gaming industry
Restructuring of approximately US$2.2 billion in debt for the largest trucking and self-storage business in North America (lead corporate counsel on US$500 million senior credit facility secured by US$2 billion in real estate and assets located throughout the US and Canada)
Restructuring of US$1 billion in debt for a nonprofit organization
Restructuring of US$1.2 billion in debt for a Canada-based drug store chain

Selected Other Matters

Lead counsel for a US-based equipment rental company in its sale of a minority interest to an Asia-based investor
Lead counsel for a US airline in the first ever joint venture in China between a US airline and a Chinese airline
Lead counsel for the world's largest auctioneer of classic cars in its sale of a minority interest to a private equity investor
Special Committee representation in a US$64 million going private transaction
Several billion dollars in credit facilities, including US$500 million senior secured credit facility for the largest trucking and self-storage company in North America
Leveraged recapitalization of a national equipment rental company
Leveraged recapitalization of the world's largest wholesale rental company
Numerous venture capital financings involving software, technology and business services companies
Negotiation of numerous employment agreements on behalf of CEOs and other executives, including the president of the Phoenix Suns
Implementation of anti-takeover defenses for Delaware and Nevada corporations

Awards

Education

J.D., University of Arizona James D. Rogers College of Law
cum laude

B.S., University of Kansas

Harvard Business School Executive Education, DLA Piper Leadership Program

Bylines

Co-author "Corporation Law: Arizona – A Q&A Guide to Corporation Law in Arizona," Practical Law Company, Inc., November 2012

Seminars

Panelist, "UK Opportunities Post-EU Referendum"
Speaker, "Trends in Corporate Governance," BDO USA Leadership Conference, (2013)
Speaker, "Capital Markets/IPO Workshop," Deloitte & Touché
Speaker, Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals
Speaker, "Update on Changes in Securities Laws," Arizona State Bar Convention
Speaker, "Securities Offering Reform," Arizona State Bar Convention
Panelist, "Doing Business in the US," Tech De Monterrey, Monterey, Mexico
Panelist, "Chinese business leaders on accessing the US capital markets," Executive MBA Program, Arizona State University W.P. Carey School of Business

Media Mentions