• Lanoga Corporation, through its United Building Centers division and its subsidiary, Lumbermen's of Washington, Inc., in 17 acquisitions of building materials stores and chains of stores and truss plants.
  
  
• A national gift products manufacturing company in connection with multiple acquisitions of companies manufacturing similar products.
  
  
• A privately held nationally recognized media company in connection with the company's reorganization and sale, $24,000,000.
  
  
• A publicly traded printing and graphics company in connection with the acquisition of a privately held competitor, $50,000,000.
  
  
• Alaska Power and Telephone Company in connection with nine acquisitions of various telecommunications companies and power companies.
  
  
• Apex Inc. in connection with the partial redemption of shares from its founder, the simultaneous sale of a significant equity interest to outside investors, and the company's subsequent public offering.
  
  
• Aviation Methods, Inc.'s purchase of assets of Regent Jack Manufacturing Ltd., an airplane equipment company.
  
  
• Bank of America and Seafirst, as sellers, in connection with disposing of approximately 40 bank properties in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, $20,000,000.
  
  
• Buckner News Alliance's purchase of Ogden Newspapers, in Minot, North Dakota, Tiffin, Ohio and Lewistown, Pennsylvania, $40,000,000.
  
  
• C.R. Bard, Inc. in its merger with C.R. Bard of Bainbridge Sciences, a medical diagnostics company.
  
  
• Centennial Holdings, Ltd. in their acquisition of First American State Bank (FASB) through stock and cash merger of FASB into Centennial Bank, approximately $5,400,000.
  
  
• CliniShare in its acquisition of five home health agencies, $3,000,000.
  
  
• Cogent Data Technologies, Inc. in their acquisition by Adaptec, Inc. through publicly registered stock-for-stock merger, approximately $68,000,000.
  
  
• Delrina Corporation in its acquisition by merger of Amaze, Inc., a software company.
  
  
• Dynacare Health Group, Inc. in its acquisition of Skagit Valley Laboratories, Inc., a pathology laboratory, approximately $15,000,000.
  
  
• Fluke Corporation in its acquisition by merger of Forté Networks, Inc. General Electric Capital Corporation in the potential acquisition of a significant equity interest in a company providing a branded discount prescription drug purchase and payment system.
  
  
• Gensoft, Inc. in its purchase of Bumblebee Software, Inc.'s assets and technology license. GenSoft, Inc. in its sale of assets and technology license acquired from Bumblebee Software, Inc. to Computer Associates.
  
  
• Global Water Industries, Inc. in its merger with EC Systems, Inc. in stock-for-stock consolidation, approximately $5,300,000.
  
  
• Icy Waters International, Inc. in its acquisition of fish farms on Indian reservation, $1,000,000.
  
  
• Kidder International, Inc. in its sale of its water ski business assets to Esmark, Inc., approximately $8,000,000.
  
  
• Management in the leveraged management buyout of an international grass seed developer and distributor.
  
  
• Minami Sports Co., Ltd. in acquiring all of the stock of Local Motion, Inc., a retail clothing store.
  
  
• Minority shareholders in acquiring control of the largest egg producer in Oregon, and consolidating its principal supplier.
  
  
• Optimas Corporation in its acquisition by FLIR Systems, Inc., through publicly registered stock-for-stock merger, approximately $5,500,000.
  
  
• Penwest's purchase of assets of Great Western Malting.
  
  
• Quality Plastics Co., Inc. in the sale of its business assets and its real property, approximately $8,000,000.
  
  
• Representation of a public company which was the target company in $78,000,000 negotiated tender offer from another public company.
  
  
• Representation of a public company in the $12,500,000 stock sale of a wholly owned subsidiary, including negotiation of letter of intent and stock purchase agreement and advising regarding SEC disclosure requirements.
  
  
• Representation of a financial institution which financed the purchase of a manufacturer and distributor of farm equipment, in excess of $300,000,000.
  
  
• Representation of a financial institution which financed the purchase of a manufacturer and distributor of heating and air conditioning units, in excess of $200,000,000.
  
  
• Representation of an NBA basketball team in obtaining financing to purchase an NBA franchise.
  
  
• Representation of the purchaser of more than 50 Taco Bell restaurants in the Midwest.
  
  
• Representation of Craig McCaw telecommunications companies in more than a dozen substantial acquisitions and divestitures.
  
  
• Representation of a major West Coast ship repair company in the sale of all stock, $5,000,000.
  
  
• Resource Group International in its contested acquisition by merger of Banyan Mortgage Investment Fund.
  
  
• Sale of stock of Christian Brothers and separate asset sale of tradename/trademarks.
  
  
• The Seattle Times Company in various publishing industry acquisitions.
  
  
• Smith Brothers Farms, Inc., parent company of Smith Tractor and Equipment, Inc., in a stock redemption (after completion of sale of Smith Tractor's assets) of minority shareholders, $7,000,000. Smith Tractor and Equipment, Inc. in its sale of substantially all its assets, $70,000,000. Teleres (a Dow Jones/Aegon joint venture) in the acquisitions of the electronic division of Black's Guide, Inc. and the licensing of various real estate data bases from various data providers.
  
  
• The shareholders of an injection molding plastics company in connection with the sale of the company, $8,000,000.
  
  
• Toucan Software, Inc. in its sale of software asset to Banyan Systems, Inc., $1,000,000.
  
  
• Trionics Technology, Ltd. acquisition by stock purchase of Comptec, Inc., an electronics company. TSA International Limited in its acquisition of real property assets located in Hawaii, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Paris, $700,000,000.
  
  
• Van Halteren Metal B.V.'s stock purchase of T&W Forge, Inc., a metal forging company, $15,000,000.

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