Arnold MacEbong

Associate
About

Arnold MacEbong advises clients on a full range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, emerging growth and venture capital transactions, corporate restructurings, and corporate governance.

Arnold’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, specifically representing strategic and financial buyers and sellers in domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, investments, and joint ventures. He advises clients on all aspects of these transactions, including the drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, overseeing due diligence investigations, advising on legal and business issues, and coordinating deal teams. His emerging growth and venture capital experience includes representing emerging companies on issues through their life cycle, from initial planning and formation to exit, and venture capital and private equity firms on issues relating to financing, acquiring, or merging with those emerging growth companies. Arnold’s corporate restructuring experience includes assisting clients with complex restructuring and integration transactions, including assisting large multinationals on the planning and implementation of multi-jurisdictional transactions such as pre-acquisition planning, post-acquisition integration, acquisitions and reorganizations, divestiture restructurings and spin-offs.

Educated, licensed to practice, and experienced across several continents, Arnold brings his international background and network of contacts to bear when advising on transactions with a cross-border element. Before moving his practice to the United States, he worked at two of Africa's leading law firms where he advised on a broad spectrum of complex local and cross border transactions. He is a pioneer member of the DLA Piper US-Africa Practice.

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EXPERIENCE

Some recent transactions that Arnold has been involved in include representing:

  • Renesas Electronics Corp., a Tokyo-based publicly listed supplier of advanced semi-conductor solutions, in its $315 million acquisition of Celeno Communications, an Israel-based provider of smart Wi-Fi solutions: acted as lead associate; drafted and participated in negotiating primary and ancillary documents; managed due diligence process; coordinated specialist due diligence and review of transaction documents; managed signing and closing procedures
  • Parsec Cloud, Inc., a remote desktop and streaming technology start-up, in its $320 million all-cash sale to Unity Technologies (NYSE: U)
  • General Electric in its carveout and reorganization through spin-offs of its healthcare, energy and aviation businesses into separate publicly traded companies
  • A publicly listed manufacturing company in its $60 million acquisition of a manufacturer of pharmacy automation packaging solutions
  • A publicly listed manufacturing company in its $57 million acquisition of a machining services company
  • The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III (GAHR III) in its merger with another investment trust, and subsequent acquisition of American Healthcare Investors, one of the largest privately held healthcare real estate investment firms in the US
  • A Private equity firm with a focus on the wealth management industry in its merger with a NYSE-listed global wealth and investment management company
  • Triton Pacific Capital Partners and its portfolio company, Unio Health Partners, in its merger with inSite Digestive Healthcare, the largest independent digestive health platform in California
  • A Global aircraft leasing and specialty finance conglomerate in the acquisition of a specialty aviation and aerospace manufacturing company
    Seplat Energy Plc. (LSE: SEPL), an energy company listed on the London and Lagos Stock Exchange, in its acquisition of a 22% participating interest in an upstream asset from Shell Plc (LSE: SHEL)
  • GoShare, a Cloud-based logistics start-up, in a seed financing round led by Mark IV Capital, Cove Fund, Jason Calacanis's LAUNCH Fund and The Syndicate.
    beatBread, a music fintech start-up in its seed financing round
  • A real estate purchase solutions start-up in its $2 million bridge financing round
  • A behavioural and data analytics start-up in its UK-US flip transaction, in preparation for its Series C financing round
  • A CLIA laboratory and diagnostics testing start-up in its California-Delaware conversion, as part of its Series A financing round
  • A B2C e-commerce platform in its review and summary of its existing investor rights, in preparation for its Series D financing round
  • Multiple venture capital and private lending funds in portfolio investments, intercreditor negotiations, restructurings and exit transactions with emerging growth companies
  • Lenders managing and participating in financings for numerous professional and minor league sports teams as well as all of the major leagues
Education
  • LL.M., University of California, Berkeley School of Law
  • The Nigerian Law School
  • LL.B. (Hon.), University of Lagos, Nigeria

Seminars

  • Facilitator, "Early-Stage Financing", AVCA Transactions Masterclass, Annual AVCA Conference & VC Summit 2024, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 2024
  • Facilitator, "The ABCs of Series Funding", AVCA Transactions Masterclass, Annual AVCA Conference and VC Summit 2023, Cairo, Egypt, May 2023

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Member, International Bar Association
  • Member, Langston Bar Association
  • Member, Nigerian Bar Association (Section on Business Law)
  • Associate, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK

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