Bio

With over 25 years of experience, Todd Emmerman serves as trusted counsel to public and private companies, private equity and other investment funds, family-owned businesses, and individual entrepreneurs, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, financings, and other transactional activities. Todd has acted as the principal outside attorney on scores of M&A and financing transactions, representing buyers and sellers as well as their investors, boards of directors, management teams, and other constituents. Todd regularly acts in a general counsel capacity for his clients, including public companies, advising on securities law and other regulatory and compliance matters, day-to-day commercial arrangements and disputes, and strategic growth, capital formation, and other business initiatives. Todd’s experience spans a broad range of asset classes and industries, including infrastructure, logistics, specialty finance, business services, travel services, consumer products, energy, real estate, and Great Lakes shipping, and includes distressed, cross-border, and contested transaction situations. Todd also has significant experience representing special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), their target operating companies and other SPAC transaction participants and investors. From inception of the SPAC product in 2004, and through all market cycles since, Todd has represented SPACs in their IPOs, business combination (de-SPAC) transactions, PIPEs and other financing activities and related SEC compliance. He is intimately familiar with both the opportunities and risks of sponsoring, investing in, or transacting with, SPACs. Todd’s SPAC related representations include sponsor group arrangements, stand-by financing arrangements, target company representations, management teams, and on-going public company compliance. Todd seeks to provide practical, business-oriented legal solutions that help his clients, and their businesses, grow and prosper at every stage of the business life cycle. Todd's clients appreciate his ability to understand their business needs and goals, to assess and address the legal risks of the particular business endeavor, and to clearly communicate value-added advice.