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We assisted the owners of OrthoLite in a successful recapitalization involving the sale of equity interests to a private equity firm and the rollover by management of a significant continuing equity position. Headquartered in Amherst, MA, with offices in Portland, OR and Hong Kong, and manufacturing facilities in China and Vietnam, OrthoLite is the world's leading supplier of comfort insoles. OrthoLite sells more than 140 million pairs of insoles annually, for use in footwear brands by Adidas, ASICS, New Balance, Merrell, Nike, Puma, Vans and Timberland.
Representation of Sunlight Capital Partners in connection with acquisition, disposition and financing of their portfolio of 200 MW of small scale solar projects located in southern California.
We represented a Maine-based manufacturing company in a supply agreement with a key parts supplier and a related $2.5 million subordinated secured loan with equity conversion features to the supplier.
Pierce Atwood serves as counsel for the New England Ocean Cluster House - a place for entrepreneurs to come together, collaborate, and grow their businesses, which are all focused on the commercialization of new ocean-related products. Located in Portland, Maine, the New England Cluster House is the result of a combined effort between The Icelandic Ocean Cluster, North Atlantic Assets & Soli DG, Inc. of Maine and MENADO, an initiative of the Maine International Trade Center.
We successfully closed a $12.5 million SEC-registered common stock offering for our client, The First Bancorp, Inc., a $1.4 billion asset bank holding company headquartered in Damariscotta, Maine. This transaction enabled the client to redeem the remaining outstanding preferred stock it had issued to the U.S. Treasury Department under the TARP program in 2009 and achieve a significantly lower cost of capital.
The Business Group's Securities team has advised The Timberland Company for several years with respect to all of its Exchange Act reporting pursuant to a fixed-fee arrangement, helping this client manage its costs while improving service levels in this area.
Pierce Atwood represented GO Lab, Inc., d/b/a TimberHP, a manufacturing company that produces wood fiber insulation products for the residential and commercial construction market, in its collaborative partnership with Saint-Gobain through that company’s building products subsidiary CertainTeed Inc. Saint-Gobain is one of the world's largest and oldest building products companies.
As part of our Catalyst program, we represent Village Internet, LLC, a 2016 winner of the UNH Social Venture Innovation Challenge, in initial formation and general corporate matters.
