Closing the deal

Peoples Bancorp Inc. has engaged us for a variety of significant projects involving M&A and regulatory matters. Notably, we partnered with Peoples on its most significant acquisition to date with our team, the purchase of Premier Financial, a $1.9 billion dollar public company with financial operations in seven states. This complex deal required a deep and broad team to handle a three-step merger, shareholder approvals, various regulatory approvals and multi-state filings. The team was heavily involved in negotiating proper allocations of risk, transaction documents and leading diligence, working hard in a compressed timeframe to get to signing.