PRACTICE FOCUS
Business Law; Mergers & Acquisitions; Complex Commercial Transactions

BIOGRAPHY

Susan E. LoGiudice has practiced with Preti Flaherty since 1985 and has successfully orchestrated complex commercial transactions for some of northern New England’s largest businesses. As former Chair of the firm’s Business Law Practice Group, her practice includes business organizations and financings, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate law.

Susan is proud to serve a solid base of business clients as general counsel, and in several cases has served as such for nearly twenty years. She has counseled clients in most stages of the business "life cycle," from inception through dissolution. Whether assisting a healthy, growing company or a bankruptcy survivor, she strives to give the level of service requested, from regular attendance at board meetings to occasional telephone consultations with management.

Susan lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with her teenage sons.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions across a wide range of industries. Transaction size ranges from purchases and sales of small businesses to multi-state transactions involving sales prices in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Her most recent acquisitions include the purchase of a mental health counseling business and a mail-order pharmacy.
  
• Served as business law lead on a multi-disciplinary transaction for Red Shield Environmental’s 2006 acquisition of Georgia-Pacific’s paper and wood chip mills. Preti Flaherty successfully led this highly-complex transaction to closing within four weeks – an extraordinarily quick turnaround that will allow Red Shield to revitalize the mill into a self-contained energy business park.
  
• Currently representing SI Development, LLC, an affiliate of Harper’s Development LLC, in the acquisition and development of Saco Island, with anticipated costs exceeding $80 million, to redevelop the island’s old mill and adjacent land into waterfront townhouses, residential condominiums and a marina.
  
• Assists Irish-based worldwide construction products company in its U.S. acquisitions, the most recent of which was a family-owned raised-access flooring company with headquarters in the Southeastern U.S. 
  
• Extensive experience in counseling and handling complex exit planning and succession planning strategies.
  
• Extensive experience in contract documentation and negotiation. Susan’s work in this area ranges from developing form contracts that clients can use with little to no help, to developing complex contracts for unusual business deals.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Recognized in the Chambers Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers
• Listed in Woodward/White’s The Best Lawyers in America^® 2008

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

• Member, Maine Bar Association, Business Law Section
• Member, American Bar Association, Business Law Section
• Leadership Maine Graduate, Zi Class, 2006-2007 
• Board Member, Center for Grieving Children – a Portland-based non-profit that provides peer-based counseling services to children and families who have suffered a loss.

Admissions
Maine

Education
J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, 1985
B.A., State University of NY at Binghamton, 1979