Contributors

KMK Corporate & Securities Blog Contributors:

Margaret G. Kubicki, Of Counsel, Private Client Services
Margaret Kubicki practices in the firm's Private Client Services Group in the areas of estate planning, probate administration, trust administration and taxation.  She has experience advising clients regarding subchapter S income tax matters and LLCs including drafting of operating agreements and buy-sell agreements.  Margaret has represented individuals regarding sophisticated estate planning including drafting and implementation of marital trusts, generation skipping trusts, GRATS, charitable trusts and domestic asset protection trusts.  Margaret also practices in the area of corporate law and has experience with structuring and implementing transactions to facilitate mergers and acquisitions.  Margaret has significant experience in corporate, income, and estate tax research.
mkubicki@kmklaw.com

Robert C. Lesan, III, Partner, Business Representation & Transactions
Rob Lesan practices in the firm's Business Representation & Transactions Group. His practice is concentrated in the corporate and finance areas where he has experience in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures representing both public and closely-held corporations. Rob's corporate practice also includes representing clients in various business transactions including, entity formation, contracting, strategic alliances, distributorships and technology licensing.  In addition to his corporate practice, Rob advises both franchisors and franchisees regarding state and federal franchise law matters.  He is fluent in Cantonese.
rlesan@kmklaw.com

Michael J. Moeddel, Partner, Business Representation & Transactions
Mike Moeddel has a breadth of experience in structuring and negotiating complex business transactions and representing businesses on a continuing basis. He has represented both publicly held and private companies in acquisitions and divestures of existing businesses. Transactions on which Mike has worked include cross-border acquisitions by publicly held companies; the sale of large family-owned enterprises to private equity firms and other sophisticated purchasers; international joint ventures; and strategic alliances. In addition, Mike has worked with a number of distressed businesses and investors in distressed business in structuring investments in and sales of their operations.  In the negotiation of acquisitions, he represents clients in all aspects of the transactions, including structuring the transactions, negotiating financing terms and documentation to transitioning the business into a company’s existing structure. Mike regularly represents investors in structuring and negotiating private placements of securities, including venture capital and private equity transactions. He has represented angel investors, venture capital firms, private equity investors and mezzanine lenders in structuring investments in start-up and existing businesses. Mike has also worked with investee companies in negotiations corporate governance, and operational matters. Mike has worked with clients in public securities offerings and other complex financing transactions. His experience includes the representation of public companies regarding a wide variety of securities issues particular to public companies, including corporate governance matters and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He has also represented shareholders in situations where they are adverse to management. Mike is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and speaks on matters related to corporate and limited liability company law.
mmoeddel@kmklaw.com

F. Mark Reuter, Partner, Business Representation & Transactions
Mark Reuter practices in the firm's Business Representation and Transactions Group.  The focus of his practice is corporate and securities law where he has extensive experience in securities regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions and public and private offerings of debt and equity securities. He is part of the team at Keating Muething & Klekamp that has overseen hundreds of corporate and securities transactions in recent years with an aggregate value in the billions of dollars.  His experience includes public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, investment grade and convertible debt offerings, private placements and proxy solicitations.
freuter@kmklaw.com

Mark E. Sims, Partner, Business Representation & Transactions
Mark Sims works primarily in the federal income tax, business planning, and health care areas. His federal tax practice involves individual, corporate, S corporation, and partnership tax planning, including executive compensation and like kind exchanges. He has been involved in numerous mergers and acquisitions, focusing primarily on tax analysis and disclosure of tax considerations. Additionally, Mark has significant experience focusing on tax issues related to the formation and operation of tax exempt organizations. Mark's business practice involves representing closely held businesses and family businesses regarding organizational, operational, and succession issues. His healthcare practice concentrates on the business and tax aspects of healthcare law, involving the representation of physician practices and other healthcare providers.
msims@kmklaw.com

James C. Kennedy, Of Counsel, Business Representation & Transactions
Jim Kennedy practices in the business representation & transactions practice group.  The focus of his practice is corporate, securities, and financing law, where he has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures representing public corporations, their subsidiaries, and other entities.  In his more than 34 years as an attorney for American Financial Group, Inc, its subsidiaries, and affiliates ("AFG"), he has overseen many acquisition and divestiture transactions in recent years with an aggregate transaction value in the billions of dollars.  He has significant experience in initial and follow-on public offerings of securities and in representing issuers and investors in private placements of securities.  He regularly advised AFG on corporate governance, financing, compliance and litigation matters.  After the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, he consolidated and managed the AFG Internal Audit and Investigative Services department.
jkennedy@kmklaw.com

Christopher S. Brinkman, Associate, Business Representation & Transactions
Chris Brinkman practices in the firm's Business Representation & Transactions Group with a concentration on mergers and acquisitions, private equity/venture capital, business formation, and business planning for entrepreneurs.
cbrinkman@kmklaw.com

Samantha M. Caspar, Associate, Business Representation and Transactions
Samantha Caspar practices in the firm's Business Representation & Transactions Group. Before joining KMK Law, Samantha was a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at The University of Alabama College of Business where she taught management courses for undergraduate students. She worked as a summer associate at KMK Law in 2015.
scaspar@kmklaw.com

Mark E. Musekamp, Associate, Business Representation and Transactions
Mark Musekamp practices in the firm's Business Representation and Transactions Practice Group with a focus on intellectual property law.  He has experience advising clients on intellectual property issues relating to trademark, copyright, and trade secrets.
mmusekamp@kmklaw.com 

Allison A. Westfall, Associate, Business Representation & Transactions
Allison Westfall practices in the firm's business representation & transactions group concentrating in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and business planning.  Allison also has experience with SEC reporting and compliance for publicly-held companies.
awestfall@kmklaw.com