Christopher J. Bellavia

Represented The SEER Group LLC in a series of acquisitions of companies in California, Oregon, and Washington providing heating and air conditioning equipment and related products and services. Seattle, Washington-headquartered SEER is a provider of home services that include heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical, and plumbing.

Represented ProbablyMonsters Inc. in the sale of its subsidiary, Firewalk Studios LLC, to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC. Firewalk Studios is developing an original AAA multiplayer game for Sony Playstation®5 and PCs.

Represented The SEER Group LLC in its sale to Genstar Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity group. SEER is a Seattle-based multi-state provider of home services that include heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical, and plumbing.

Represented the parent company of several independent companies in the transportation, mining, shipbuilding, and construction industries in consortium deal to acquire a leading global asset management company focused on infrastructure assets in the maritime and energy sectors, in a US$10.9 billion going-private transaction.

Represented global supplier of equipment and technologies for the wood processing industry, USNR, LLC, in its acquisition of Arkansas-based provider of custom engineering equipment, controls, and optimization systems and services, Timber Automation, LLC.

Represented Beijing-based Dalian Wanda Group in Legendary Entertainment’s recapitalization and US$760 million preferred equity interest investment by Apollo Global Management.

Represented healthcare technology company, Office Ally, Inc. in its sale to Francisco Partners.

Represented global supplier of equipment and technologies for the wood processing industry, USNR, LLC, in its sale to One Equity Partners.

Represent Seattle-based investment fund in a series of venture capital investments in early stage technology companies.

Represent Florida-based investment fund in a series of acquisitions of e-commerce consumer businesses.

Represented Seattle-based publicly-held broadcast-media company in its US$375 million sale to a strategic buyer.

Represented Seattle-based publicly-held broadcast-media company in its acquisition of NBC television affiliate in Oregon, sale of multi-station Montana radio group, and sale and leaseback of multi-building commercial and office complex in Seattle, WA for US$160 million.

Represented Fortune 100 financial institution in its acquisition of a credit card issuer for US$6.5 billion, acquisition of a consumer bank for US$983 million, and sale of mortgage servicing rights to strategic buyer for US$2.8 billion.

Represented Seattle-based maritime company in the sale its U.S. shipping and logistics operations to strategic buyer.

Represented Fortune 100 financial services company in US$7.2 billion private equity financing, US$3 billion registered convertible preferred stock offering, and US$500 million registered preferred stock offering.

Represented publicly-held internet software service provider in its US$2.7 billion strategic merger.

Represented companies in a variety of industries on SEC, NYSE, and NASDAQ regulatory compliance matters.

Advised public broadcast media company in its defense against activist hedge fund proxy contest and hostile takeover attempt.

Represented underwriters for medical device company's IPO.

Represented CPG company in US$40 million Series C and US$19 million Series B financings.

Represented ethernet products and solutions provider in US$26 million Series B financing.