Overview
Clara Seymour is a corporate attorney focusing her practice on finance, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and general corporate services.
- Represents publicly and privately held companies in debt financing, venture capital, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, business formation, corporate restructuring and other corporate matters
- Advises borrowers regarding asset-based lending, syndicated credit facilities, high-yield note offerings, FF&E financing, debt restructurings, dividend recapitalizations, subordinated and unsecured financing, convertible debt and other complex financing transactions ranging from $500,000 to $1.25 billion
- Counsels both borrowers and lenders in connection with financing and capital raising in various industries, including cannabis and gaming
- Represents corporations and institutional venture and private equity firms in their high-technology and growth-equity investment activities
- Represents private equity funds in connection with senior and mezzanine financings for acquisitions of new and add-on portfolio companies and refinancing in various industries
- Represents clients in connection with corporate restructuring issues
- Counsels clients with respect to drafting and negotiating various transactions in the information technology field
Services
Experience
Representative Matters
Financing and Capital Raising
- Represented investors in connection with domestic and cross border (US/Canada) transactions in the cannabis industry totaling over $450 million in capital raised and involving various forms of securities, including convertible debentures, convertible notes, warrants and common and preferred equity.
- Represented gaming company in $1.05 billion first lien and second lien notes
- Represented gaming company in $450 million revolving and term loan facility
- Represented Rocket Mortgage LLC in its issuance of $1.250 billion senior notes and $1.01 billion senior notes
- Represented North American Bancard, LLC in its $715.0 million senior secured revolving and term loan facility
- Represented home security system provider in its refinancing transactions in its approximately $180 million refinancing transactions involving four layers of progressively subordinated facilities
- Counsels venture capitalists and start-up and early stage businesses in connection with investments in the form of preferred stock and debt
General Corporate Services; Mergers and Acquisitions
- Advises companies with complex ownership and organizational structures in connection with company formation, corporate governance, corporate restructuring, and other organizational matters
- Counsels companies in various industries in connection with corporate governance and commercial agreements
- Advises in connection with compliance with existing agreements, including financing agreements
Information Technology
- Counsels various companies in connection with their relationships and agreements with information technology vendors and other web-based service providers
- Advises clients regarding technology due diligence and technology transfer issues in mergers and acquisitions
Credentials
Education
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, J.D.
University of Michigan, B.A.
Admissions
- Michigan
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Recognition
Awards
- Michigan Super Lawyers, Recognized as a Rising Star, 2013-2022
Professional & Community Involvement
State Bar of Michigan
- Business Law Section
- Information Technology Law Section
American Bar Association
- Business Law Section
- Science and Technology Law
- Young Lawyers Division