James Lindsay Palenchar

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Founding Partner

  Firm Name

  Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Engagements: Johnson Controls Inc.'s acquisition of Saft Groupe S.A.'s 49% interest in the Johnson Controls-Saft Advanced Power Solutions LLC ($145 million)
  Acquisition by Trico Marine Services, Inc . of DeepOcean ASA, a Norwegian provider of subsea services to the energy industry ($810 million). Sale of Aquilex Corporation (a First Reserve Corporation portfolio company) to Harvest Partners, LLC. Sale of ScissorTail Energy, LLC, an Oklahoma based natural gas midstream operation, to Copano Energy, LLC ($500 million). Acquisition by Foundation Coal Corporation (a portfolio company of First Reserve Corporation
  Blackstone Capital Partners) of RAG American Coal Holding (Illinois, Wyoming, Pennsylvania
  West Virginia coal operations) from RAG Coal International AG ($1 billion). Sale by NaPro Bio Therapeutics (now known as Tapestry Pharmaceuticals) of its worldwide generic injectable paclitaxel business to Mayne Group Limited ($71 million). EchoStar Communications Corporation 's acquisition of the United States direct broadcast satellite business of The News Corporation Limited
  MCI WorldCom. Inc. ($1.5 billion). E.I. du Pont de Nemours
  Company 's acquisition of Merck & Co., Inc.'s 50% interest in the DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company ($2.6 billion). Sale of Tejas Gas Corporation to Shell Oil Company
  related post-closing management arrangements ($1.45 billion). Intrepid Potash, Inc. , initial public offering ($1.1 billion), counsel to twenty-percent stockholder, Platte River Ventures I. L.P. Trico Marine Services, Inc . PIPES offering of Senior Convertible Debentures ($300 million). Alpha Natural Resources, Inc . initial public offering ($645 million). Representation of General Motors Corporation in connection with activism by Kirk Kerkorian. Successful defense of Federal Signal Corporation against proxy contest initiated by Warren B. K
  ers. Successful defense of Trico Marine Services, Inc. against proxy contest initiated by Kistefos AS. Successful defense of Trico Marine Services, Inc. against proxy contest initiated by Newcastle Partners, L.P. Successful defense of Colorado MEDTech, Inc. to hostile takeover attempt by HEI, Inc. DuPont Pharmaceutical Company 's strategic alliance with Barr Laboratories, Inc. NaPro BioTherapeutics, Inc. 's (now known as Tapestry Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) strategic alliance with Abbott Laboratories for the development of Paclitaxel formulations, including equity investment, development funding,
  product development
  sales milestones ($68 million). Partitioning of The Harold C. Simmons Family Trust in connection with the settlement of fiduciary litigation (corpus valued at approximately $1 billion). Representation of management of Community Health Systems in connection with the leveraged buyout by Forstmann Little & Co. ($1.3 billion).