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201 St. Charles Ave
New Orleans, LA 70170-5100
504.582.8160 tel
504.589.8160 fax


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Britton Seal is an associate in the Corporate & Securities Practice Group and practices from the firm's New Orleans office.

With broad knowledge of corporate and securities law, Mr. Seal represents clients in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; private equity transactions; business entity formation, counseling, and capitalization; and public company securities compliance. He has worked with a wide range of domestic and foreign public and privately held clients in the technology, financial, health care, manufacturing, transportation, and real estate industries.

Noteworthy

• Named a "Rising Star" in the area of Securities & Corporate Finance in the 2012 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers

Representative Matters

• Represented HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS) in connection with the sale of its surgery division to TPG Capital in a stock purchase valued at approximately $945 million.
• Represented HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS) in connection with the sale of its outpatient rehabilitation division to Select Medical Corporation in a stock purchase valued at $245 million.
• Represented numerous banks in efforts to raise capital, buy, sell, or merge with other financial institutions, including drafting of definitive acquisition agreements and drafting and coordinating regulatory filings with the FRB, FDIC, OCC, and various state banking departments.
• Represented BE&K, Inc., an engineering, construction, and maintenance services company, in its merger with KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR), a former subsidiary of Halliburton Company, in a transaction valued at $550 million.
• Represented Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC) in its acquisition of an aggregates products and recycled materials business valued at $55 million.
• Represented HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS) in connection with the sale of an inpatient rehabilitation facility to Baton Rouge General Medical Center.
• Represented an MRI imaging center in its sale to a subsidiary of Lifepoint Hospitals, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPNT).
• Represented a bank holding company in its initial public offering of securities listed on NASDAQ and subsequent acquisition of another bank holding company in a transaction valued at $40 million.
• Represented public companies in various aspects of securities compliance, including drafting and filing of initial S-1s, S-3s and S-4s, section 16 filings, 8-Ks, 10-Ks and proxy statements (DEF 14As).
• Represented an Alabama bank in a TARP transaction valued at approximately $25 million.
• Represented MedMined, Inc., a venture capital start-up company, in connection with its sale to Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH).
• Represented a venture capital biotech company in an offering of Series F preferred stock to raise capital.
• Represented Fokker Services B.V., headquartered in the Netherlands, in the acquisition of Aerotron Airpower, Inc., which specializes in the manufacture and repair of aircraft parts, in a transaction valued at $25 million.

News

• Fifty-Six Jones Walker Attorneys Named to Louisiana Super Lawyers 2012
• Britton H. Seal Joins Jones Walker's New Orleans Office

Publications

• The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Chapter 11
  Due Diligence Handbook: Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Business Planning, First Edition 2008
• "Classic Protectionism—Thin Ham Provides Thick Protection for Member State Domestic Goods at the Expense of the European Common Market"
  Consorzio Del Prosciutto Di Parma & Salumifico S. Rita Spa v. Asda Stores Ltd. & Hygrade Foods Ltd. 12 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 545, 2004

Memberships

• American Bar Association