Represented Meadow Wind Associates, L.P. in the FHA/HUD LEAN Program financing in the amount of $1,575,000 for a skilled nursing facility located in Massillon, Ohio.

Represented FirstMerit Bank, N.A. in a $5,775,000 financing of skilled nursing facilities located in Painesville, Ohio.

Represented a nursing care provider in multiple financing projects, including $8,000,000 construction financing of a skilled nursing facility located in Beavercreek, Ohio and $8,630,000 construction financing of a skilled nursing facility located in Colerain, Ohio.

This transaction involved a corporate reorganization of Seed Restaurant Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries followed by the sale of substantially all of the assets of the company and its subsidiaries to an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Inc.  Our firm's experience negotiating business acquisition transactions in the context of multiple bidding parties enabled the client to maximize shareholder value and consummate the transaction within the desired time-frame.

Baseball is about as “American” as you can get, and USA Baseball has been the national governing body for amateur baseball since 1978, including representing the United States as a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee and internationally as a member of the World Baseball Softball Confederation.  

“Our first interaction with Dinsmore was in the area of IP and trademark protection, but as our organization and needs have changed, our counsel has not,” said Paul Seiler, Executive Director/CEO of USA Baseball.

“That’s due to the fact Dinsmore is a full service team that provides for all of our legal needs, from contract work to real estate guidance to sponsor relations. This allows USA Baseball to be connected across all of our business units with a common and knowledgeable firm that understands who we are, in all facets of our operations,” he added.  

Dinsmore serves as USA Baseball’s outside general counsel and handles all legal issues for the organization, including intellectual property, data protection, corporate, litigation, employment and finance.  Among recent work, Dinsmore provided legal support to USA Baseball’s efforts to develop and implement a performance standard for non-wood bats used in youth baseball.  This work began several years ago and, ultimately, reached a variety of legal areas including intellectual property, corporate, licensing, insurance and agreement work.  The performance standard was announced on August 7, 2015, and on January 1, 2018, USA Baseball’s National Member Organizations will require non-wood youth bats meet the performance standard, which will be indicated by the USA Baseball trademark on bats that have passed performance testing.  

“One of our former board members had a saying, ‘You do business with your friends.’  And while perhaps not always literal or possible in business, in this case it is,” Seiler said.  “Our decision to have Dinsmore represent USA Baseball is based on the relationship we have, as well as for the quality counsel provided on a daily basis.”  

As the national governing body of amateur baseball, USA Baseball engages with nearly every major national amateur baseball organization in America, which equates to millions of amateur players in ballparks and playgrounds across the country. The organization also promotes and develops the game on a grassroots level nationally and internationally.  Dinsmore attorneys have assisted the organization with finance and real estate work related to further development of USA Baseball’s National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina.

“The great thing about our relationship with Dinsmore is that we know our best interests are always being looked out for.  We never feel like we are just a client.  For that matter, I don’t think we even use that word (client) when referencing our partnership,” Seiler said.  “Dinsmore is an impactful brand in the legal world, yet it would be hard to argue that we have a more personal relationship with anyone we do business with.”

We represented a national life insurance company on all aspects of loan documentation, negotiation, and closing for nearly 100 loans in 2016 and 2017. The loans ranged from less than $1 million to more than $20 million and were secured by a wide range of commercial real property, including retail centers, warehouses, apartment complexes, and hotels. Dinsmore worked closely with the client, borrower’s counsel, title companies, surveyors, and other third-party providers to resolve loan documentation, real estate, tenant, and borrower organizational structure issues and all other issues necessary to close various loans in a cost-effective and collaborative manner.

Represented US Bank as arranging bank in syndicated loan of $120 million to AGNL Blimp L.L.C. as borrower for construction of new Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company global headquarters. Worked with Royal Bank of Scotland as participating bank in loan process. The borrower will purchase port authority bonds with proceeds from the loan as well as numerous sources of public and private funding and pledge the bonds as collateral to the bank. This transaction required a detailed and thorough understanding of bond finance law, including creative structuring to ensure the lender was fully secured ahead of all other sources of funding. Additionally, because borrower closed on the bond transaction before the loan transaction, Dinsmore had to retro-fit the loan document provisions to match the bond documents and work to assign the borrower’s rights to the bank in case of a default to mitigate client’s risk and exposure.