Christal Contini

Mergers and acquisitions | Healthcare | Distressed M&A | Search funds | Business counseling | Family and closely held business counseling | Private equity | Franchising, licensing, and distribution

Christal is a member, serving as Vice Chair of the Business Law Department and Chair of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. She is also on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Her practice is focused on representing physician practice groups, medical laboratories, behavioral health facilities, search funds and both strategic buyers and sellers in various types of transactions, including complex mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, distressed acquisitions and dispositions, financings, and investments. Christal also provides general corporate counseling to a variety of middle market businesses, business owners, boards of directors, management teams and investors on matters relating to corporate governance, commercial contracts, compliance and operational issues. Her industry experience covers a wide array of industries such as healthcare, quick-service and full-service franchise restaurants, polymers and manufacturing. Christal has also served in an in-house counsel capacity for a pathology laboratory, a software service provider, a polymer manufacturer and an international manufacturer and distributor of household and commercial products.

Christal earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Cleveland State University College of Law in 2008 and served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law and Health. She received a B.A., cum laude, from Ashland University in 2003.