Elizabeth Cully Chase

Elizabeth Cully Chase is an associate in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group in the firm’s Dallas office.

Areas of Practice

Elizabeth’s practice encompasses general corporate and securities matters, with an emphasis on investment funds and other investment vehicles, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. 

Investment Management 

Elizabeth also represents clients on the formation, structuring, and management of private investment funds, including real estate funds, debt and credit funds, entertainment funds, and other private investment fund strategies.

Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances

Elizabeth counsels family offices, investment funds, and other institutional clients in a wide variety of transactions involving the acquisition, disposition, development, and financing of real estate projects, with a particular focus on joint venture investments in multi-family and commercial developments.  She is experienced in drafting and negotiating complex partnership and LLC agreements.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Elizabeth also counsels public and privately held companies, investors, and entrepreneurs in complex corporate and securities transactions, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions.  In these transactions Elizabeth represents clients across a broad range of industries, including technology, security, manufacturing, transportation, life sciences, and fashion, apparel, and beauty.

Experience

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Represented Allied Universal in its acquisition of Phoenix Systems & Service, Inc.
• Represented Allied Universal in its acquisition of Advent Systems.
• Represented Allied Universal in its acquisition of Cypress Private Security.
• Represented the Audax Group in its bolt-on acquisition by portfolio company, MNX Global Logistics, of Global First.
• Represented Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB) in its acquisition of Gridsmart Technologies, Inc., a market-leading, technology-driven business with a differentiated video tracking offering in the Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) market.
• Represented adidas in sale of TaylorMade to KPS Capital Partners for $425 million.

Venture Financing

• Represented Cameo in its Series Seed, Series A, and Series B financing rounds.

Articles

 Corporate & Securities Law Blog Posts

• "Rule 504 Becomes Useful Tool for Smaller Capital Raising and M&A Transactions," November 28, 2016