Christopher M. Bartoli provides advice on corporate and securities matters to clients in various industries including biotechnology, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, travel and consumer products. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Public Company Acquisitions, the Executives’ Club of Chicago, the Illinois Bar Association and the New Jersey Bar Association. Mr. Bartoli also serves on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Legal Aid Bureau.

Practice Focus

Mr. Bartoli counsels NYSE and NASDAQ-listed companies, foreign private issuers and their boards of directors on offerings of debt and equity securities, negotiated and contested mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. He also advises public companies on SEC reporting obligations, Sarbanes-Oxley matters and corporate governance issues. 
 

Representative Legal Matters

• Represented an NYSE-listed company in a $165 million multijurisdictional stock option exchange offer.
• Represented a foreign private issuer in a $1.6 billion acquisition of a NYSE-listed company.
• Represented a NYSE-listed manufacturing company in a $734 million acquisition of a NYSE-listed manufacturing company.
• Represented a NASDAQ-listed company in the energy industry in a $375 million underwritten public offering of common stock.
• Represented a foreign private issuer in the metal recycling industry in a $400 million equity offering.
• Represented a US public company in the Internet search industry in a $175 million acquisition of a UK company with operations in ten European jurisdictions.

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association - Business Law Section
• New Jersey Bar Association
• Illinois State Bar Association
• The Executives' Club of Chicago
• Chicago Legal Aid Bureau

Admission

Illinois~United States (2000)
New Jersey~United States (1996)

Education

University of Notre Dame Law School  (J.D.) (1996)
University of Notre Dame  (B.S. Mechanical Engineering) (1993)