Timothy R. Damschroder, Partner
ANN ARBOR OFFICE
734-930-0230
734-930-2494 FAX
TDAMSCHRODER@BODMANLLP.COM
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Expertise
- Corporate Law
- Business Law
- Commercial Law
- Securities Law
- Intellectual Property Law
Bar Admissions
Education
- A.B., University of Michigan, 1984
- J.D., University of Detroit School of Law, 1988
Professional Affiliations
- State Bar of Michigan (Past Chair, Business Law Section; International Law Section)
- American Bar Association (Business Law and International Law Practice Sections)
- Washtenaw County Bar Association
- Member, Business Law Advisory Board, Institute for Continuing Legal Education
- Lecturer, Institute for Continuing Legal Education
- Lecturer, Washtenaw Community College
- Admitted to practice before the United States Court of International Trade
Civic and Community Involvement
- Member, Major Gifts Committee, Saint Joseph Mercy Health System (Ann Arbor)
- Member, Advisory Group, Ann Arbor Angels
- Member, Zion Lutheran Church
- Past President, Board of Directors, Peace Neighborhood Center
- Past Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Nonprofit Enterprise At Work
Honors
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2008, Corporate Law
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2008 , Mergers & Acquisitions Law
- Listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2008, Corporate/M&A
- Listed in Michigan Super Lawyers 2007, Business/Corporate
- AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Biography
Mr. Damschroder advises clients in business, corporate finance, securities, tax and intellectual property law. His business work includes early stage enterprises, corporate finance, advising on matters regarding business transactions (domestic and international), business formation (corporation, limited liability company and partnership), corporate governance, and merger, acquisition and joint venture work from pre-letter of intent negotiations to final closing.
Mr. Damschroder specializes in dealing with hi-tech companies from start up, to transactions involving intellectual property, to venture capital financing, to eventual sale or IPO. His corporate finance work includes debt and equity financing (venture capital and angel investments), and derivative transactions including ISDA documentation, master agreements, interest rate swaps, currency swaps and other foreign exchange transactions (FX transactions), and options.
Significant representative matters in which Mr. Damschroder has been counsel of record include the following:
- Negotiated and closed 27 separate corporate finance transactions since June 2006 totaling in excess of $150 million including seed and follow-on funding, venture capital funding, mezzanine financing, funding from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), raising funds for a private investment entity, and investing in a large institutional fund.
- Represented Seneca Partners, a private equity, investment banking and merchant banking firm, in the simultaneous purchase of two separate companies, Adesso Solutions and Gelco Trade Management, creating the market’s largest mid-market Trade Promotion Management (TPM) solution providers.
- Successfully negotiated the sale of Sysware Health Care Systems, Inc., a software company with operations in the U.S. and in India to Eclipsys Corporation, and the sale of Leade Health, a leading health coaching firm, to Ceridian Corporation.
- Represented a newly formed publishing company in a $30 million purchase of three business units from a public company. His work included assistance with raising the needed capital to fund the transaction. The transaction also included the purchase of a 170,000-square-foot complex located on a 60 acre parcel.
- Represented a private investment fund in connection with the purchase of a multimedia company with operations in London, New York and Seattle.
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