Colleen Lyons

Colleen has represented a wide assortment of public and private companies. However, the primary focus of her practice involves the representation of small- and medium-sized entities concerning matters ranging from entity selection, formation and structuring to counseling regarding ongoing operational and governance matters. She has a broad-based transactional practice with particular emphasis in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, commercial contracts and commercial lending. In addition, she frequently has acted as local counsel in multi-jurisdictional transactions and provides legal advice to foreign companies with respect to their business affiliates in the United States. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Colleen Lyons included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Best Lawyers in America®, Corporate Law Best Lawyers in America® 2024 Manchester Lawyer of the Year, Business Organizations Chambers USA, Corporate/Commercial Martindale- Hubbell Peer Rated New England Super Lawyer®, Business/Corporate Other Sources of Feedback About Colleen Lyons Included on the 2025New England Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2024 New England Super Lawyers list 2023 New England Super Lawyers list 2022 New England Super Lawyers list 2021 New England Super Lawyers list 2020 New England Super Lawyers list 2019 New England Super Lawyers list

• Shareholder

• Co-Author of Chapter in MCLE Practical Guide to Organizing a Business in New Hampshire entitled “Organizing a Corporation Under the New Hampshire Business Corporation Act” (February 2014)

• Board member and member of Finance Committee, St. Joseph Community Services, Inc. /Meals on Wheels
• Member of Finance Committee and Audit Committee, Neighbor works Southern New Hampshire
• Member, BIA Committee, responsible for proposing revisions to New Hampshire Business Corporation Act
• Member Stakeholder Group, BIA, participating in development of Strategic Economic Plan for New Hampshire
• Representative Clients
• Represented investment management firm in connection with its acquisition by national firm
• Represented Bittware, Inc., a global provider of computing systems featuring field programmable gate arrays in sale to Molex Electronic Solutions
• Represented New Hampshire based manufacturer of ink jet printer inks in sale to publicly traded office supply company
• Represented insurance company affiliate in strategic acquisition of software company and follow on securities offering to additional strategic investors.
• Represented client in strategic merger of two investment funds with an aggregate value of $245 million.
• Represented newly-formed entity in obtaining $12 million secured financing to fund acquisition of data center business.
• Represented multiple timber investment funds with financings having an aggregate value in excess $200 million.
• Represented client in spinoff of real estate holding company to its shareholders.
• Assisted with representation of NetProspex in $125 million sale to Dun & Bradstreet.
• Represented the owners of New England Wood Pellet, LLC, the largest producer of wood pellets for the U.S. heating market, in the sale of the company to Rentech, Inc., a publicly-traded wood fiber processing and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing company, for approximately $53 million.
• Represented an independent rural telephone and telecommunications holding company in obtaining $35 million of secured financing for various acquisitions of rural telephone and telecommunications companies with an aggregate value of $50 million.
• Represented owners of privately-held construction materials business with multiple entities and locations in sale of assets to a strategic buyer for approximately $35 million.
• Represented a private building supply company in obtaining debt financing of $50 million in connection with a going-private leveraged buyout of a Nasdaq-traded public company in a similar industry.
• Represented multiple New Hampshire trust companies and investment managers in connection with the formation and maintenance of well over sixty private investment funds as qualified investment companies under the New Hampshire Investment Trust Act.

• New Hampshire, 1986
• Connecticut, 1984
• New York, 1985
• Specialties and Certifications
• Former Certified Public Accountant, State of NY (Inactive)

• American Association of C.P.A.'s, 1980 - Present
• New Hampshire Bar Association (Member, Corporate, Banking and Business Law Sections)
• New York Bar Association
• American Bar Association (Member, Business Law Section)
• Connecticut Bar Association