Adam J. August

Adam J. August is a partner in Holland & Knight's Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group.Mr. August counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. He has been actively involved in merger, acquisition and disposition transactions with a combined value more than $1 billion, and financing/investment transactions and securities offerings worth more than $600 million. Other commercial and corporate transactions he regularly works on relate to corporate governance; corporate reorganizations; development, production, and distribution of technology goods and services; employment and stock-related issues; and transactions with distressed entities and business bankruptcy.Recent M&A transactions include:represented management in complicated tax-driven $15 million buyout of government contractorrepresented public company purchaser of government contractor in $12.5 million merger acquisitionrepresented acquiror of software and hardware developer in equity swaprepresented public company purchaser of government contractor and its subsidiaries in $100 million stock acquisitionrepresented seller of software company in $4 million stock salerepresented seller of manufacturing business in $6 million asset sale and debt assumptionrepresented seller of continuing care retirement community in the District of Columbia in $10 million equity interests and assets dispositionrepresented seller of medical transcription company with five classes of preferred stock to private equity purchaser in $75 million merger salerepresented seller of telecommunications equipment developer to public company buyer in $53 million stock salerepresented private “acquiror” of public company government contractor in $500 million market capitalization reverse triangular mergerRecent representative financing transactions include:represented lead investor in $12 million bridge loan with convertible notes and warrantsrepresented issuer in $320 million high-yield debt (144A notes/warrants) offeringrepresented issuer in $5 million private offering of LLC membership units and warrantsrepresented issuer in debt conversion into $3 million Series D Preferred Stock issuancerepresented borrower in negotiations with Fifth Third Bank for $3 million line of creditrepresented issuer in $37 million Series A, $50 million Series B and $50 million Series C Preferred Stock private placement offeringsrepresented borrower and sub-lender in $6 million line of credit that issued subsequent $1 million line of credit to joint venturerepresented government contracts capital fund in formation and closing of $15 million private offeringrepresented issuer in $37 million PIPE transaction with investors including Pequot Private Equity, General Electric Pension Trust and New York Life Investment Managementrepresented equal partner in complex tax-driven real estate $18 million joint venture, including multiple level LLC, partnership and corporation structurerepresented developer/issuer in connection with $6 million private placement for condominium developmentrepresented issuer in complex formation and $800,000 private offering of interests in a Commodity Pool Operator (i.e., fund) investing in futures contractsAs a law clerk for The Honorable Steven A. Felsenthal in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Dallas, Texas, Mr. August was responsible for corresponding with counsel, briefing pleadings for hearings and trials, researching issues of federal and state law, and drafting and editing legal opinions for publication.

Adam J. August is a partner in Holland & Knight's Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group.Mr. August counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. He has been actively involved in merger, acquisition and disposition transactions with a combined value more than $1 billion, and financing/investment transactions and securities offerings worth more than $600 million. Other commercial and corporate transactions he regularly works on relate to corporate governance; corporate reorganizations; development, production, and distribution of technology goods and services; employment and stock-related issues; and transactions with distressed entities and business bankruptcy.Recent M&A transactions include:represented management in complicated tax-driven $15 million buyout of government contractorrepresented public company purchaser of government contractor in $12.5 million merger acquisitionrepresented acquiror of software and hardware developer in equity swaprepresented public company purchaser of government contractor and its subsidiaries in $100 million stock acquisitionrepresented seller of software company in $4 million stock salerepresented seller of manufacturing business in $6 million asset sale and debt assumptionrepresented seller of continuing care retirement community in the District of Columbia in $10 million equity interests and assets dispositionrepresented seller of medical transcription company with five classes of preferred stock to private equity purchaser in $75 million merger salerepresented seller of telecommunications equipment developer to public company buyer in $53 million stock salerepresented private “acquiror” of public company government contractor in $500 million market capitalization reverse triangular mergerRecent representative financing transactions include:represented lead investor in $12 million bridge loan with convertible notes and warrantsrepresented issuer in $320 million high-yield debt (144A notes/warrants) offeringrepresented issuer in $5 million private offering of LLC membership units and warrantsrepresented issuer in debt conversion into $3 million Series D Preferred Stock issuancerepresented borrower in negotiations with Fifth Third Bank for $3 million line of creditrepresented issuer in $37 million Series A, $50 million Series B and $50 million Series C Preferred Stock private placement offeringsrepresented borrower and sub-lender in $6 million line of credit that issued subsequent $1 million line of credit to joint venturerepresented government contracts capital fund in formation and closing of $15 million private offeringrepresented issuer in $37 million PIPE transaction with investors including Pequot Private Equity, General Electric Pension Trust and New York Life Investment Managementrepresented equal partner in complex tax-driven real estate $18 million joint venture, including multiple level LLC, partnership and corporation structurerepresented developer/issuer in connection with $6 million private placement for condominium developmentrepresented issuer in complex formation and $800,000 private offering of interests in a Commodity Pool Operator (i.e., fund) investing in futures contractsAs a law clerk for The Honorable Steven A. Felsenthal in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Dallas, Texas, Mr. August was responsible for corresponding with counsel, briefing pleadings for hearings and trials, researching issues of federal and state law, and drafting and editing legal opinions for publication.

Adam J. August is a partner in Holland & Knight's Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group.

Mr. August counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. He has been actively involved in merger, acquisition and disposition transactions with a combined value more than $1 billion, and financing/investment transactions and securities offerings worth more than $600 million. Other commercial and corporate transactions he regularly works on relate to corporate governance; corporate reorganizations; development, production, and distribution of technology goods and services; employment and stock-related issues; and transactions with distressed entities and business bankruptcy.

Recent M&A transactions include:

Recent representative financing transactions include:

As a law clerk for The Honorable Steven A. Felsenthal in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Dallas, Texas, Mr. August was responsible for corresponding with counsel, briefing pleadings for hearings and trials, researching issues of federal and state law, and drafting and editing legal opinions for publication.