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Overview
With a focus on a client’s overall business objectives, Shaun McGaughey brings to bear more than 30 years’ of experience as a business counselor. He guides clients with all entity matters, including formation, governance and ownership management, business contracts, antitrust matters, and handles mergers and acquisitions.
Shaun’s entity and governance experience includes advising companies, senior management, boards of directors and committees on governance, organizational structure, fiduciary duties, and financial reporting. He ensures that effective governance documents and policies are in place and utilized in order to help the company as intended.
Shaun regularly helps clients with business contract matters, including in determining product distribution strategies, including pricing, to assure compliance with the multitude of antitrust and other industry-specific laws and regulations that impact their business.
Through his M&A practice, Shaun advises his clients on all aspects of business transactions including transaction structure, tax planning, due diligence investigation, negotiation of deal terms, closing of the transaction and post-closing matters. He has provided legal representation on approximately 200 completed business transactions ranging in value, to over $300 million.
As part of his antitrust practice, Shaun also counsels clients on compliance with antitrust and competition laws, including the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, and assists clients with HSR filings needed in connection with M&A transactions.
Shaun has been named among the The Best Lawyers in America® for his work in Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Law. He was named the Best Lawyers® 2018 Mergers and Acquisitions “Lawyer of the Year” in Omaha, is AV Preeminent® Rated in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and was selected as a 2019 Top Rated Lawyer by American Lawyer Media and Martindale Hubbell. Shaun has also been listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (Chambers & Partners Publishing).
