Kara L MacCullough

Practice Areas

Corporate

Mergers & Acquisitions

Capital Markets

Corporate Governance & Compliance

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)

Career

Kara L. MacCullough focuses her practice on advising public and private companies on corporate and securities law issues surrounding corporate finance transactions and mergers and acquisitions. She has served as issuer's counsel in connection with over $10 billion in equity and debt offerings and debt tender offers by public companies in the past three years and has experience with international business transactions including cross-border tender offers.

Kara's clients have included companies in the telecommunications, retail, restaurant, transportation, life sciences, financial services, media and entertainment, utilities and information technology industries.

Concentrations:

Private and public securities offerings (IPOs, follow-on and secondary offerings, convertible notes offerings, PIPEs, high-yield and investment grade debt and Regulation S/offshore offerings

Exchange/tender offers, asset and stock purchases and other commercial transactions

Corporate governance, executive compensation, director responsibilities and fiduciary duties

Public company mergers, private company acquisitions and dispositions, strategic investments, going private transactions and special committee representation

International and cross border transactions

International practices

Professional Memberships

Member, The Florida Bar; Business Law Section; International Section.

Member, American Bar Association.

Member, The District of Columbia Bar.

Publications

Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Finance - Capital Markets: high-yield debt offerings, 2022

-"Other Key Lawyer," 2022

Listed, Lawdragon 500, "Leading Dealmakers in America," 2021

Listed, IFLR1000, "Notable Practitioner," Capital Markets: Debt, Capital Markets: Equity, M&A, 2019-2022

Listed, South Florida Legal Guide, "Top Lawyer," 2020-2021

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America

-Lawyer of the Year" in Corporate Law, Fort Lauderdale, 2023

-"Lawyer of the Year" in Securities/ Capital Markets Law, Fort Lauderdale, 2021-2023

-Corporate Law, 2012-2023

-Corporate Compliance Law, 2014-2023

-Securities/ Capital Markets Law, 2019-2023

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2006-2022

-Selected, Fort Lauderdale Illustrated, "Top Lawyers," 2020-2022

-Corporate Law, 2020-2022

-Securities/Capital Markets Law, 2020-2022

-Corporate Governance and Complaints Law, 2021

Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Florida Super Lawyers, 2010, 2014-2015, 2021-2022

Selected, Daily Business Review, “Top Dealmaker of the Year – Land Category,” 2015

Member, Winning Team, ACG New York Champion’s Awards, Deal of the Year (over $500mm); Cross-border Transaction of the Year (over $250mm) for $1.8 billion Acquisition of MacDermid, Inc. by Platform Acquisition Holdings Limited, 2014

Recipient, “Best in Corporate Governance,” American Women in Business Law Awards, IFLR/Euromoney, 2014

Member, Winning Team, “M&A Deal of the Year (Over $1 Billion to $5 Billion)” for Platform Specialty Products Corporation (f/k/a Platform Acquisition Holdings Limited) acquisition of MacDermid, Incorporated and related entities, The M&A Advisor’s 6th Annual International M&A Awards, 2014

Team Member, Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting Inc., one of “America’s Best Corporate Law Firms,” 13th Annual Legal Industry Study, 2013

Selected, Daily Business Review, “Top Dealmaker of the Year,” Corporate Finance Category, 2013

Personal

J.D., magna cum laude, University of Miami School of Law; University of Miami Law Review; Order of the Coif

B.A., cum laude, Wellesley College