Overview
Seth Huffstetler is a corporate attorney who focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance and general corporate matters.
He has represented:
- ONE Brands in its $397 million acquisition by the Hershey Company.
- A private company in multiple acquisitions in the wholesale insurance brokerage industry.
- A family office in the buyout of joint venture partners in a food processing and packaging business.
- A private gift and loyalty card supplier in its sale to a private equity fund.
- A private equity fund in its acquisition of a company that operates a money market fund portal.
- A private textile company in its acquisition by the company's employee stock ownership plan.
- A private holding company in the tax-free split-off of a manufacturing business to a group of the holding company's shareholders.
Experience
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Represented a commercial real estate developer in the disposition of a $650 million portfolio of projects through one integrated corporate transaction.
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Represented a private company in its financed acquisition of a closed loop card manufacturer.
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Represented High Point Bank Corp. in its merger with BNC Bancorp.
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Represented the special committee of the board of directors of First Citizens Bancorporation in the company's merger into First Citizens BancShares.
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Represented a private company in connection with a $2.3 billion recapitalization involving an investment by a Canadian pension fund and an amendment to existing credit facilities.
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Represented a private construction insurance broker in its joint venture with a publicly traded retail insurance broker.
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Represented a private country club in its acquisition by a private owner and operator of golf clubs.
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Represented an operator of retirement communities in the sale of eight communities to National Health Investors Inc. for $476 million.
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Represented a hospital authority in a joint venture with an unaffiliated 501(c)(3) entity to develop, own and lease a new, approximately 177,000-square-foot facility that will house a 40-bed long-term acute care hospital and a 29-bed rehabilitation hospital.
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Represented the shareholders of a private North Carolina company in requesting a special meeting and conducting a proxy contest to replace the incumbent board of directors.
Affiliations
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Taxation Section
- North Carolina Bar Association, Business Law Section, Tax Section
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Education
New York University, LL.M., Taxation, 2005; Graduate Editor, Tax Law Review
Duke University, J.D., 2003
Duke University, B.A., cum laude, 1998
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina