Jeffrey Damon Ashcraft

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Transactions

  Representative Transactions: Significant Experience; Representing private equity funds, and public and private companies in merger and acquisition transactions and joint ventures, including transactions involving industrial manufacturing, telecommunications, energy and commercial retail; Advising various companies in private placement transactions and in federal and state securities laws; Assisting start-up and mature companies in entity formation and corporate/ organizational governance, including limited liability companies, partnerships, and buy-sell agreements; Representing various clients in the negotiation and preparation of various types of commercial contracts, including agreements for supply/distribution, technology license, outsourcing service contracts, and other general commercial agreements; Advising various commercial banks and private lenders in secured lending transactions and corporate financings; Assisting in preparing and negotiating buy-sell agreements, structuring management buy-outs, and resolving shareholder/management disputes; Advising in the formation, organization and governance of non-profit organizations and related matters; Selected Recent Transactions; Transaction counsel to a Utah professional corporation in the sale of its medical services business to a strategic buyer; Counsel to purchaser in recent 90 million asset acquisition of an industry competitor; Counsel to a Utah-based agriculture company in the sale of its business to an industry competitor; Counsel to leading manufacturer and supplier of wheel rims in a variety of joint venture, development agreements and other commercial transactions, including in a recent acquisition of an industry competitor and divesture of its drive-axle business; Counsel to management group in compensation/equity roll-over in the sale of a Utah-based manufacturing company to private equity buyer; Counsel to a public company in the recent sale of its farm equipment division to a strategic buyer; Counsel to manufacturer and supplier of seating components for trucks in the sale of its business to a strategic buyer; Counsel to commercial retail in the partial divesture of its business to an industry competitor; Counsel to a private equity investor of its acquisition of a specialty metals company; Counsel for private equity investor in providing secured and unsecured loans to portfolio companies, including acquisition/development loans; Counsel to stockholders in their sale of equity interest in a colocation business to an industry competitor; Represented a Caribbean-based telecommunications operator in its sale to a large international telecommunications provider; Primary counsel to first aid supply company in the sale of its business to an international conglomerate; Served as counsel to various private equity groups in providing secured financings of emerging growth companies; Counsel to a Utah non-profit organization that provides access to musical instruments in high-risk areas of Salt Lake City; advised client in forming, obtaining tax exempt status and non-profit governance