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Christopher G. Terris

Associate

Christopher G. Terris

Associate

Chris Terris is an associate and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. Chris practices primarily in the areas of corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, securities law, capital markets and corporate governance. He is a member of the firm’s Transactions Practice and Capital Markets & Public Company Advisory Practice.

Chris regularly represents buyers and sellers in public and private mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, dispositions, reorganizations and recapitalizations. Chris also advises clients regarding state and federal securities law compliance, and represents issuers in securities transactions, including public and private offerings of equity and debt securities. Chris serves as outside general counsel to a number of companies, including private equity portfolio companies, advising on all matters of corporate and securities law.

During law school, Chris worked for Judge Rudolph T. Randa of the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the Counterterrorism Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He also served on the Executive Board of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics. Prior to entering law school, Chris worked for Congressman Paul Ryan (WI-01) and Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (WI-05).

 

Representative Experience

  • Advised Ara Partners in connection with its acquisition of Path Environmental Technology.
  • Advised Ara Partners in connection with its acquisition of Earth Energy Renewables.
  • Advised Blue Run Spirits in connection with its sale to Molson Coors Beverage Company.
  • Advised EMC Insurance Group in connection with its going private transaction.
  • Advised Generation Growth Capital in connection with its acquisition of 3rd Dimension Industrial 3D Printing.
  • Advised Lee Container in connection with its sale to Greif Packaging.
  • Advised Neostella in connection with its sale to Hampton Roads Capital.
  • Advised Northern Lakes Capital in connection with its acquisition of E.A. Quinn Landscape Contracting.
  • Advised Northern Lakes Capital in connection with its acquisition of North East Irrigation.
  • Advised Source Logistics in connection with its sale to Palladium Equity Partners.
17 January 2024 Deals and Wins

Foley Represents Barnes Group in Sale of Associated Spring™ and Hänggi™ Businesses

Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor to Barnes Group Inc., a global provider of highly engineered products, differentiated industrial technologies, and innovative solutions, in its entering into a definitive agreement to sell its Associated Spring™ and Hänggi™ businesses to One Equity Partners.
10 November 2023 Deals and Wins

Foley Advises Source Logistics in Acquisition by Palladium Equity

Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor to Source Logistics, a provider of value-added warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment third-party logistics services to the consumer goods sector with a focus on Hispanic food and beverage brands, as private equity firm Palladium Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in the company.
09 August 2023 Deals and Wins

Foley Represents Blue Run Spirits in Acquisition by Molson Coors Beverage Company

Foley & Lardner LLP represented Blue Run Spirits, an award-winning producer of finely crafted bourbon and rye whiskies, in its agreement to be acquired by Molson Coors Beverage Company.
24 August 2020 Press Releases

Foley Represents Ara Partners in Path Environmental Technology Capitalization

Foley & Lardner represented private equity firm Ara Partners in its investment in Path Environmental Technology, LLC, an industrial services provider headquartered in Houston.
01 April 2019 Newsletters

SEC Modernizes and Simplifies Disclosure Requirements

On March 20, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it had adopted a series of amendments to improve the readability and navigability of company disclosures, and to discourage the disclosure of immaterial or repetitive information.