Richard M. Bolton

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Detroit Office

rbolton(at)dickinsonwright.com

Phone: 313.223.3648

Fax: 313.223.3598

Areas of Practice Emphasis

Representative Clients

  • Active Interests Media, Inc.
  • Huron Capital Partners
  • InterMedia Outdoors
  • Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Corporation
  • Long Point Capital, Inc.
  • Nantucket Multi-Managers, L.L.C.
  • Peninsula Capital Partners
  • Superior Capital Partners
  • Wind Point Partners
  • W.Y. Campbell & Company

Prominent Assignments

  • Counsel to private equity funds in numerous merger, acquisition, LBO, recapitalization, going private and divestiture transactions
  • Counsel to mezzanine funds in numerous mezzanine finance transactions
  • Counsel to numerous private equity funds regarding fund organization and administration
  • Counsel to Boards of Directors and committees thereof regarding corporate finance transactions and corporate governance issues
  • Lead counsel on wide variety of public and private corporate finance transactions, including IPOs and secondary offerings, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, tender offers, and going private transactions
  • Counsel to issuers and underwriters in numerous registered public offerings; counsel to issuers in several 144A private placements of debt followed by registered exchange offers
  • Counsel to Florists' Transworld Delivery Association in the spin-off and divestiture of its business operations and return to its core function, a trade association

Education

  • J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 1977
  • B.A. (with highest honors), Michigan State University, 1974

Admitted to Practice

  • Michigan, 1977

Professional and Community Involvement

  • Past, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Detroit Institute for Children

Acknowledgements

  • Managing Director, Private Equity Practice
  • Selected for inclusion as top ranked Corporate/M&A lawyer in Michigan by Chambers USA (2004-2007)
  • Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 12th edition (2006-2008)
  • Martindale Hubbell AV peer review rated for ethical standards and legal ability
  • Selected for inclusion in Michigan Super Lawyers 2007