Office

Grand Rapids, Metro Detroit

Phone

616/336-6429

Fax

616/336-7000

Email

pgroth@varnumlaw.com

pgroth@varnumlaw.com

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Assistant

Kathy Schreur, 616/336-6858

Kim DeBoer, 616/336-6700

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Corporate Experience

Pete’s experience is in transactional work, with a heavy focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, angel and venture capital, finance, and joint venture transactions. He provides counseling with respect to day-to-day business issues of all types, including commercial transactions, corporate structuring and succession planning. Pete is also experienced in real estate transactions and tax planning matters, including extensive work in connection with 1031 exchange transactions.

Additionally, Pete has significant experience in laws unique to cooperatives, including the Capper-Volstead Act, laws governing patronage, and relevant tax laws and regulations. He represents agricultural cooperatives as general counsel as well as for specific matters including formation/organization, governance matters, mergers and acquisitions, and collection matters.

His recent significant representations include:

Merger and Acquisition Transactions:

• Merger transaction involving the sale of an automotive supplier to a private equity fund and also involving an equity rollover by management ($415 million)
• Sale of stock of automotive supplier ($385 million)
• Sale of certain assets of a food processing company ($300 million)

Representation of Cooperatives:

• Numerous merger and acquisition transactions involving cooperatives
• General representation of boards of directors and corporate governance issues
• Contract matters of all types