Practices:

• Corporate
  • Financing and Lending
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity, Hedge Funds and Venture Capital

Industries

• Distressed Transactions, Workouts and Bankruptcy
• Financial Services

Experience

Allix J. Magaziner’s practice focuses on representing clients in a broad range of matters including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, and commercial contracts.  She works extensively with private equity, hedge funds and venture capital firms in their fund formation activities, their portfolio investments and their corporate finance matters.  Ms. Magaziner also advises public company clients and institutional shareholders on SEC reporting and disclosure requirements, corporate governance issues, and other corporate and securities matters.

Additionally, her experience includes secured and unsecured credit facilities, reorganizations and workouts, acquisition, recapitalization and other leveraged financings.  She has substantial knowledge on first lien/second lien, mezzanine and subordinated debt facilities, and asset-based financings.

Ms. Magaziner currently serves as General Counsel to First Step Staffing, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to providing benefits and employment opportunities to individuals who are in transition or who were formerly homeless. 

Representative Matters

• Representation of US Airways Group, Inc. (NYSE:LCC) in its securities reporting.
• Representation of Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX / TSE:OTC) in numerous merger and acquisition transactions of private and public targets, including acquisition of Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAPA) and acquisition of Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN).
• Representation of Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIR) in numerous merger and acquisition transactions and collaboration arrangements, including sale of Osteocel Product Division to NuVasive Inc. (NASDAQ:NUVA), and exclusive collaboration and license agreement with Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ:GENZ).
• Representation of Millennium Technology Venture Funds in debt and equity investments in secondary transactions.
• Representation of Nancy Creek Capital in debt and equity investments in growth companies and in the formation of its private equity funds.
• Representation of SunTrust Bank (NYSE:STI) in connection with senior credit facilities.

Education

• J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2007
• B.A., University of Colorado Boulder, with distinction, 2003

Admitted

• Georgia