Colleen Lyons - Manchester, NH

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York, 1984
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude

• Non Legal Education

  • Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1978
    B.A.
    Honors: cum laude
  • New York University Graduate School of Business
    M.S.
    Major: Accounting

Current Employment Position(s)

• Shareholder

Classes and Seminars

• Co-Author of Chapter in MCLE Practical Guide to Organizing a Business in New Hampshire entitled “Organizing a Corporation Under the New Hampshire Business Corporation Act” (February 2014)

Pro Bono Activities

• Board member and member of Finance Committee, St. Joseph Community Services, Inc. /Meals on Wheels
• Member of Finance Committee and Audit Committee, Neighbor works Southern New Hampshire
• Member, BIA Committee, responsible for proposing revisions to New Hampshire Business Corporation Act
• Member Stakeholder Group, BIA, participating in development of Strategic Economic Plan for New Hampshire

Representative Clients

• Represented investment management firm in connection with its acquisition by national firm

• Represented Bittware, Inc., a global provider of computing systems featuring field programmable gate arrays in sale to Molex Electronic Solutions

• Represented New Hampshire based manufacturer of ink jet printer inks in sale to publicly traded office supply company

• Represented insurance company affiliate in strategic acquisition of software company and follow on securities offering to additional strategic investors.

• Represented client in strategic merger of two investment funds with an aggregate value of $245 million.

• Represented newly-formed entity in obtaining $12 million secured financing to fund acquisition of data center business.

• Represented multiple timber investment funds with financings having an aggregate value in excess $200 million.

• Represented client in spinoff of real estate holding company to its shareholders.

• Assisted with representation of NetProspex in $125 million sale to Dun & Bradstreet.

• Represented the owners of New England Wood Pellet, LLC, the largest producer of wood pellets for the U.S. heating market, in the sale of the company to Rentech, Inc., a publicly-traded wood fiber processing and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing company, for approximately $53 million.

• Represented an independent rural telephone and telecommunications holding company in obtaining $35 million of secured financing for various acquisitions of rural telephone and telecommunications companies with an aggregate value of $50 million.

• Represented owners of privately-held construction materials business with multiple entities and locations in sale of assets to a strategic buyer for approximately $35 million.

• Represented a private building supply company in obtaining debt financing of $50 million in connection with a going-private leveraged buyout of a Nasdaq-traded public company in a similar industry.

• Represented multiple New Hampshire trust companies and investment managers in connection with the formation and maintenance of well over sixty private investment funds as qualified investment companies under the New Hampshire Investment Trust Act.

Published Works

Articles

• New Hampshire Updates its Investment Trust Act
  
• Avoiding Pitfalls When Purchasing a Troubled Company
  
• SBA PPP Forgiveness Platform Scheduled to Go Live August 10, 2020
  
• PPP Loan Application Deadline Extended and Conforming Updates to Previously Issued Interim Guidance
  
• Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act Becomes Law
  
• Overview of May PPP Loan Forgiveness Regulations
• Application for PPP Loan Forgiveness Released
• Use of PPP Loan Proceeds and Forgiveness
• SBA Issues PPP Loan Guidance for Self-Employed Individuals
• SBA Issues Interim Final Rules and Final Form of Application for Paycheck Protection Program
• Paycheck Protection Program Application Process and Guidelines Established
• Paycheck Protection Program
• The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (The Cares Act)
• Benefit corporations: coming soon to New Hampshire
• New Hampshire Enacts Modernization of Business Corporation Act

Bar Admissions

• New Hampshire, 1986
• Connecticut, 1984
• New York, 1985

Specialties and Certifications

• Former Certified Public Accountant, State of NY (Inactive)

Other Affiliations

• American Association of C.P.A.'s, 1980 - Present
• New Hampshire Bar Association (Member, Corporate, Banking and Business Law Sections)
• New York Bar Association
• American Bar Association (Member, Business Law Section)
• Connecticut Bar Association