Meera R. Modi

Profile

Meera R. Modi is a leading M&A attorney and trusted advisor to founders, executives and businesses, guiding them through mergers, acquisitions, sales and other strategic ventures. She leverages her deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced by businesses to serve as a sophisticated legal partner to her clients.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

In the M&A community, Meera is regarded as a dealmaker and closer who is skilled at managing transactions while keeping her clients’ business goals and objectives at the forefront. Her solutions-based negotiating style is often recognized for being a key driver in getting deals across the finish line.

Over her career, Meera has created a niche practice of advising founders on strategic exit and liquidity options, whether to strategic buyers or financial buyers, including private equity firms and other institutional investors. She has extensive experience with deals involving representation and warranty insurance and helps sellers significantly minimize their post-sale transaction liability. In addition, Meera represents buyers in roll-up transactions and advises on post-transaction integration matters.

Corporate governance

Meera has served as outside general counsel to numerous companies, including family-owned businesses. She leverages her experience advising companies on fiduciary duties, contract issues, compliance concerns and general corporate reviews. She collaborates closely with business teams to develop and implement effective legal strategies by negotiating and documenting arrangements involving customers, vendors, strategic partners, employees and owners. Her prior board service with Orrstown Financial Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: ORRF), and its principal subsidiary, Orrstown Bank, gives her unique insight into the challenges and opportunities that public companies encounter.

Representative experience

• Represented a waste processing and disposal company in the sale to a private equity platform company
• Represented a number of HVAC equipment sales and service providers in their sales to a PE-backed operators in several roll-up acquisitions
• Represented manufacturer of commercial-grade hardware products, including locks, in the sale to a private equity purchaser, which included roll-over
• Represented comprehensive general services contractor in the sale of its pavement marking services and high friction treatment services divisions
• Represented private equity (PE)-backed school bus operator in its acquisition of another school bus operator
• Represented a manufacturer in the acquisition of its component supplier, which included an indirect purchase of its “maquiladora” subsidiary
• Served as lead M&A counsel to Ritter Insurance Marketing in connection with the sale to Dallas, Texas-based Integrity Marketing Group
• Served as lead M&A counsel to a private equity backed home remodeling company in connection with buy-side rollup transactions
• Served as lead M&A counsel to an automotive software company with groundbreaking pricing software in the sale of its assets to a publicly traded company
• Served as lead M&A counsel to a multi-state applied behavior analysis company in the sale of its assets to a private equity backed platform company
• Served as lead M&A counsel to three separate wireless key companies that sold their businesses to a private equity backed platform company
• Served as lead M&A counsel to a founder in the sale of its lubricants business to a private equity backed platform company
• Represented a family-owned and -operated infrastructure and maintenance contracting services company in the sale of one of its divisions, working closely with its executive and ownership teams and leading the transaction to a successful closing