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  Corporate Services
  China Law
  Commercial Financial Services
  Commercial Law
  Corporate Finance/Securities
  Corporate Governance and Compliance
  Emerging Growth Companies
  International Business
  Investor Services
  Mergers & Acquisitions
  Private Equity/Venture Capital
  Privately Held Business Group
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Leonardo Loo / Partner
Professional Experience
Mr. Loo is a member of the Firm's Corporate Services and China Law Practice Groups. He practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, international transactions, venture capital investments, securities, financing, and general corporate law involving clients in a wide variety of industries.

Representative Transactions

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Represented a medical laboratory in its sale to a publicly-traded S&P 500 company in the diagnostics industry.
    • Represented various corporations in the construction industry in their sale to leading publicly-traded companies.
    • Represented automobile dealership companies in connection with their acquisition of various automobile dealerships in California and Arizona.
    • Represented an agricultural company in its recapitalization and stock sale estimated at $90 million to a private equity investment firm.
    • Represented a genome sciences company in its acquisition of a livestock cloning company.
    • Represented seller in $61 million sale of footwear and apparel business to a publicly-traded international footwear company.
    • Represented an architectural, construction management and engineering services company in various roll-up acquisitions for architectural services firms.
    • Represented a life insurance company in its $35 million acquisition of a competing insurance company.
    • Represented a mutual fund investment adviser in connection with the sale of funds under its control to a national mutual fund management company.
    • Represented a controlling shareholder group in a going-private transaction of a publicly-traded medical services corporation.

  • International
    • Represented a health-industry company in its expansion efforts across Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.
    • Represented buyer group in its purchase of a technology company based in Israel.
    • Represented a domestic company in connection with a multi-million dollar private offering for real estate developments in Mexico.
    • Represented an Israeli-based insurance group in its regulatory compliance efforts across various states.
    • Represented mining-related clients in exploration projects throughout Canada and Australia.
    • Represented Korean-based environmental services company in its acquisition of US-based competitor.
    • Represented US-based freight company in joint venture projects in Canada.
    • Represented US-based company in its restructuring of subsidiaries in Mexico and across Asia.

  • Financing; Regulatory
    • Represented clients, including major lending institutions and publicly-traded borrowers, in connection with the documentation and negotiation of a variety of loan transactions.
    • Represented multiple commercial and consumer lending institutions, as well as mortgage bankers/brokers with a host of Federal and state regulatory compliance issues.
    • Represented numerous clients in private placement financing transactions in a variety of industries.

  • Health Care
    • Represented a medical practice in its purchase and sale to a publicly-traded oncology services company.
    • Represented numerous physicians with employment and partnership issues.
    • Counseled a network of health clinics in connection with insurance-related regulatory issues.
    • Counseled a medical services management company in connection with compliance matters and in structuring its management services.
Education and Honors
  • University of Chicago (J.D., 1996)
  • Stanford University (B.A., 1993)
  • Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (1992)
    Stanford Program.
Bar Admissions
Arizona, 1997
Connecticut, 1996

Professional Recognition
Hispanic Hero, Aguila Youth Leadership Institute (2008).

Corporate Counsel Black Book (2008).

Selected as a “Forty Under 40” honoree by The Business Journal, 2005.

Professional and Civic Activities
  • State Bar of Arizona (Member).

  • Maricopa County Bar Association (Former Board of Directors).

  • State Bar of Arizona (Former Secretary, Business Law Section).

  • Arizona Asian American Bar Association (Member, Board of Directors).

  • National Asian-Pacific American Bar Association (Former Alternate Southwest Regional Governor).

  • Maricopa County Colleges Foundation (Board of Directors).

  • Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. (Treasurer, Board of Directors).

  • Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (General Counsel, Board of Directors).

  • Greater Phoenix Black Chamber of Commerce (Board of Directors).

  • The Victoria Foundation (Former Board of Directors).

  • Diversity Advisory Council for Maricopa Integrated Health System (Former Member).

  • University of Chicago Alumni Schools Committee (Member).

  • HALO/Helping Animals Live On, Inc. (Board of Directors).

  • Governor Napolitano's Asian American Advisory Council (Former Member).

  • City of Phoenix Pacific Rim Advisory Council (Former Chairperson).

  • City of Phoenix Sister Cities Commission (Former Board of Directors).
Languages
Spanish
Chinese

Selected Presentations/Publications
Trade on a Global Scale; Phoenix Forum - Business Beyond Our Borders, Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (2010).

Money - Debt Financing - Where to Get It; How to Get It, Table Talk for Business (2009).

“Protecting Your Company’s Technology,” bizAz magazine (May/June 2003).

Mergers and Acquisitions, Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (2001).