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| Phone: (312) 857-7080 |
Fax: (312) 857-7095 |
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| Susan Greenspon's clients range from start-up entities to publicly traded corporations. Her clients include software developers, Internet entities, commercial and resort real estate developers as well as manufacturers, publishers, and distributors of products ranging from home decorating products, to power transmission components to organic children's products. |
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Representative Experience:
Financing
Susan helps clients secure funding – from angel investments to pre-IPO mezzanine financing – as well as more traditional bank financing. Numerous companies, including Internet and tech companies, have continued to rely on her expertise as they built their success after early-stage funding is secured. Susan also represents funds themselves in both distressed debt situations and in the raising of venture capital.
Mergers & Acquisitions
She has had extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures. Ms. Greenspon has recently helped companies buy or sell companies or assets ranging in size from $4 million to $85 million, both within the U.S. and internationally. Her experience includes sales to both strategic and financial purchasers, foreign and domestic, as well as with privately held and publicly traded entities.
Corporate Law
Many of Susan's clients in the U.S. and internationally rely on her as outside general counsel. In this role she negotiates and documents senior management agreements, handles corporate form documentation (i.e., confidentiality and non competition agreements, employment agreements, independent contractor agreements), and forges third party and joint venture agreements. In addition, Susan counsels these clients on the formation and documentation of stock option vehicles, stock repurchase agreements and redemption arrangements.
Diverse Expertise in a Range of Industries
Susan's clients include companies that have developed Internet sites for the entertainment, marketing and social networking spaces, as well as companies that have developed voice-activated software, shipping logistical software and customized software programs for product assembly and repair. In addition, she represents such green-tech clients as Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, Inc., a Canadian/U.S. entity with technologies on the cutting-edge for the improvement of land and water worldwide.
Susan also has extensive experience in the commercial and resort development area of law with a niche expertise in advising U.S. clients seeking to develop properties in the Caribbean. Her clients include well-known commercial developers in the Midwest as well as property developers throughout the Bahamas, with projects ranging from the mixed-use real estate to the most exclusive private resorts in the Bahamas. |
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Bar Admission:
Illinois, 1989
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| Education:
Loyola University of Chicago, JD, 1989
University of Wisconsin, BA, 1986
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Office Location:
333 West Wacker Drive
26th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
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