Barbara Lano Rummel

Partner She / Her / Hers

Minneapolis

Tel 612.371.3940
Fax 612.371.3207

Barbara Rummel serves as co-leader of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions practice group and serves on the firm's Expanded and Elected Boards. She has completed numerous M&A transactions involving public and privately held businesses, with deals ranging in size from under $10 million to more than $1 billion. Her experience covers a range of industries, with a particular emphasis on the life sciences, including medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies. She has recently completed acquisition transactions in the water and safety solutions, communications technology, hospitality and financial services industries.

She also serves as outside general counsel to several companies, working directly with business leaders or supplementing in-house legal capabilities to meet a variety of transactional needs. In these roles, she negotiates key governance, joint venture, licensing, manufacturing, distribution and transition services agreements for clients of all sizes, including domestic and international arrangements.

Services

Experience

Representative Matters

Led team in representing a publicly-traded client in a series of strategic transformative transactions over the course of 2021 and 2022, including an acquisition by merger, change of corporate name and trading symbol on Nasdaq, a 1-for-4 reverse stock split, a PIPE offering of Series A preferred stock and warrants to institutional investors, the issuance of a special pre-closing cash dividend of proceeds from the sale of its key legacy operating business, and the issuance to legacy shareholders of non-transferable contingent value rights (CVRs) that will entitle them to receive future distribution proceeds from the sale of company pre-merger assets.
Represented a public company in the communications infrastructure industry with disposition of its key business line as part of a transformative strategy plan
Managed an engagement for a major U.S. fashion brand for contract review of commercial, marketing, licensing, and e-commerce agreements, including contracts with factories and suppliers outside of the United States

Represented a global leader in water, shelter and safety solutions in the acquisition of safety and protection material technology and negotiation of a long-term manufacturing agreement
Represented the owners of a long-standing improvisational theater in their sale to a non-profit theater group focused on sustaining the arts in Minneapolis
Represented leader in water purification technology in acquisition of innovative water solution technology
Represented Greystone in acquisition of special loan servicing portfolio of C-III Asset Management
Led M&A team in acquisition of general partner of a publicly traded partnership that provides financing for multifamily residential properties
Represented Upsher-Smith Laboratories in the acquisition of assets of two branded pharmaceutical products for the treatment of migraines
Led M&A transaction for client in sale of a late-stage anti-epilepsy drug development program to a global biopharmaceutical company for an up-front cash payment of $150 million and contingent payments of up to $220 million based on certain regulatory approval and sales-based milestones.
Represented Upsher-Smith Laboratories in the sale of its generic pharmaceuticals business to Sawai America, Inc. for $1.1 billion
Represented FINNEGANS Brew Co. and FINNovation Lab LLC in structuring and negotiating the development of the FINNEGANS House project in Downtown East Minneapolis, which includes a brewery, taproom and hotel as well as a social entrepreneurship venture and workspace
Served as local counsel to consumer goods private equity firm in financing for acquisition of maker of wearable infant blankets
Provided local counsel to buyer in $178 million acquisition of publicly-held transportation software company
Represented telehealth service provider in $200 million sale to a major medical device company
Represented publicly held medical device manufacturer in sale of product line to health and fitness company
Local counsel for buyer (a subsidiary of a global healthcare company) in $360 million tender offer of publicly-held medical device company
Counseled independent grocer in acquisition of seven store locations from national grocery chain
Represented independent insurance agency in sale to industry leader building a national platform
Counsel to publicly held medical device manufacturer in $100 million tender offer sale to industrial technology company
Represented biomedical manufacturer in license of technology platform from major US research institution
Sale of UK research facility and early-stage drug development programs to UK buyer

Professional Highlights

Professional Activities

American Bar Association, Member

Minnesota State Bar Association, Member

Hennepin County Bar Association, Member

Minnesota Women Lawyers, Member

Recognition & Accomplishments

The Best Lawyers in America, mergers and acquisitions law, corporate law, 2019-2023

Named "Notable Practitioner" by IFLR 1000 for banking/financial services, 2018-2022

LMG Life Sciences Awards, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2022

Minnesota Super Lawyers, 2003, 2004, 2006-2008, 2015, 2016; Top Women Attorneys in Minnesota, 2016; Rising Star, 2004

Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal – Top Woman in Business, 2014; "Forty Under 40," 2004

Finance & Commerce – Top Woman in Finance, 2013

Speaking Engagements

Presenter, "Understanding the SPAC Exit Path," Minnesota Association for Corporate Growth, October 2021

Presenter, "On to 2021: What Lies Ahead for Mergers and Acquisitions?" Minnesota Association of Corporate Counsel, December 2020

Presenter, "Best Law Firms for Women - Policies, Practices, and Initiatives that Work," Minnesota CLE (also 2013), January, 2014

Board Memberships & Community Service

FINNEGANS Community Fund, Volunteer Attorney

Publications

Co-author, "Ballard Spahr Gears Up for a Busy 2019," M&A Magazine, January 2019

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Credentials

Education

Drake University Law School (J.D. 1990, with honors)

Winona State University (B.S., cum laude, 1986)

Admissions

Minnesota