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Laura D. Nemeth
Partner
Laura Nemeth is a partner in our global Corporate Practice Group and a former member of our Global Board. With over 35 years of experience, she has built a reputation as a trusted adviser to public companies and privately held businesses, advising on a wide range of commercial and general business matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and securities law and commercial real estate transactions. In addition, Laura frequently represents clients in the event ticketing, information technology, sports and entertainment, and renewable energy industries. As part of her comprehensive corporate practice, Laura also assists clients with pre- and post-acquisition restructurings, as well as reorganizations designed to optimize business efficiencies.
She has extensive experience helping clients expand their operations across borders, including representing clients in complex, multijurisdictional acquisition and divestiture transactions. Laura regularly represents non-US clients expanding their operations to the US.
Laura is a leading subject matter expert in the ticketing industry and represents providers of online ticketing solutions and services, global online advertising platforms and digital media companies. She advises clients in their commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and their compliance with the ever-evolving industry regulations at the federal, state and local levels.
Laura’s work also spans the information technology, sports and entertainment, and renewable energy sectors. She advises early-stage and mature information technology companies on formation, financing, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, and data security matters. She also advises sports and entertainment industry clients in various commercial transactions, and real estate transactions. In the renewable energy sector, Laura works with companies driving innovation in biofuels, solar power and power generation, helping them structure operations, secure funding and execute critical transactions.
- Advising GB Group plc in its US$301 million acquisition by merger of IDology, Inc., an Atlanta, Georgia-based provider of identity verification, fraud prevention and location intelligence solutions.
- Advising ICF Incorporated, L.L.C. in its US$220 million acquisition of SemanticBits, LLC, a provider of scalable digital modernization services and software solutions in the healthcare industry.
- Advising Manchester Airports Holdings Limited in its US$67.5 million acquisition of AirportParkingReservations.com, ParkSleepFly.com and ShuttleFinder.com.
- Advising Preferred Mortgage Services, LLC, a financial technology company, in its US$60.3 million sale to a private equity buyer.
- Advising LADbible Group in its acquisition of Betches Media, LLC for US$54 million.
- Advising MotoMateHD, LLC, a provider of digital solutions for powersports dealers, in its sale to private equity.
- Advising a Sweden-based global information company on its US$90 million acquisition of OpenWave Mobility, a Silicon Valley provider of solutions to mobile operators for video traffic management and cloud data management.
- Advising a European information technology company in its disposition via a tender offer valued at US$2 billion.
- Advising a publicly traded Canadian fruit juice and beverage manufacturer in its entrance to the US market through a US$390 million merger with a US beverage manufacturer and the financing of that transaction.
- Advising Fraport USA in regard to entity formation, corporate governance and US restructuring matters.
- Advising Essentra International Limited in the US aspects of its global reorganization across the US, the UK and Japan.
- Advising Reward Gateway (UK) Limited in the US aspects of its global reorganization across the UK, Australia and the US.
- Advising NCC Group plc in the US aspects of its global reorganization of companies across the US, the UK, Spain and the Netherlands.
- Advising an online provider of primary and secondary marketplace ticketing solutions and services in its commercial transactions with customers and partners and in regulatory matters.
Education
- The Ohio State University, J.D., 1989
- The Ohio State University, B.S., 1986
Admissions
- Ohio, 1989
Memberships & Affiliations
- Served as a member of the Global Board of Squire Patton Boggs, January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2017
- Served on the Medina County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Board, 1998 to 2020
- Served as a member of the Medina Community Recreation Center Advisory Board, 2001 to 2020
- Served on the 2002 to 2003 Medina, Ohio City Charter Review Commission
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, an honor based on an exhaustive peer-review process
- Recognized by InterContinental Finance Magazine as one of the top 500 lawyers in the world in 2013
- Listed as an Ohio Super Lawyer
- Named to Crain’s Cleveland Business 40 Under 40 list, a showcase of the area’s finest young professionals
- Listed in Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
- Global M&A Network’s Americas M&A Atlas Award for Food and Beverage Deal of the Year 2011