Gregory R. Hall

Representative Clients

• AMERCO (U-Haul International)
• American Dental Companies
• Amtech Systems
• Axway
• Barminco Mining Services USA
• Café Valley
• Capital Pump & Equipment 
• Crystal Creamery
• Dragados, S.A. and Dragados USA
• Foster Dairy Farms
• Harkness Capital Partners
• Inventure Foods
• Mesa Air Group
• Mobile Mini
• Pulice Construction
• Sunstate Equipment Co.
• SuperShuttle International
• Transdev North America
• Water Movers

• Watts Investments

• Wilscott Mobile Mini Holding Corp.

Representative Transactions

Securities Offerings

• Joint S-1/S-4 filing for Mesa Air Group in connection with its merger with Republic Airways Holdings
• Mesa Air Group US$125 million initial public offering of common stock
• Amtech Systems US$50,000,000 shelf offering
• Mobile Mini US$200 million 144A note offering coupled with a tender offer and consent solicitation
• Numerous shelf offerings for U-Haul
• 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

• Representation of Mesa Air Group in connection with its merger with Republic Airways Holdings
• Representation of Sunstate Equipment Co. in connection with numerous acquisitions of equipment rental and trench shoring companies
• Representation of numerous equipment rental, trench and pump equipment companies throughout the U.S. and Canada in sale-side transactions with national equipment rental companies and PE firms, including Herc Rentals, Sunbelt Rentals, and United Rentals
• Representation of Amtech Systems in connection in its acquisition of a private company engaged in chemical mechanical polishing and wafer cleaning
• Representation of American Dental Companies in connection with its sale of a majority interest to a PE firm
• Representation of Inventure Foods in connection with its sale to Utz Quality Foods pursuant to a negotiated tender offer
• Representation of SuperShuttle and its parent, Transdev North America, in connection with numerous acquisitions and divestitures of transportation companies throughout the U.S.
• 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 the U.S.
• 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 U.S. airline in its establishment of a joint venture in Hawaii
• 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

The Legal 500 United States

• Recommended, Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Managers, (2019)
• Recommended, Capital Markets: Debt Offerings – Advice to Issuers, (2017)

Chambers USA

• Band 3, Arizona Corporate/M&A, (2012, 2023 – 2024)
• Band 2, Colorado Corporate/M&A, (2021)
• Band 2, Arizona Corporate/M&A, (2013 – 2019)

Additional Recognitions

• Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Best Lawyers, (2020 – 2022)
• The Guide to America's Leading Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers
• Securities and Corporate Finance, Southwest Super Lawyers
• Top Lawyers List, Securities and Corporate Finance, AZ Business Magazine