Parker Schweich helps companies, investors, lenders and investment banks navigate their most important transactions with advice centered upon innovative solutions that achieve their business and compliance goals. He represents companies at all stages, from startups to small and medium sized privately-owned businesses to large-cap public companies across a broad range of industries including life sciences, medical devices, software, internet, technology, financial services, food and beverage, apparel and consumer/retail.  Whether helping to raise capital, invest in or acquire a business, achieve a successful exit or navigate the complexities of corporate and securities laws, Parker delivers results on time and on budget.

Parker’s decades of experience and knowledge of corporate and securities laws and mergers and acquisitions enables him to anticipate challenges long before they arise and develop solutions in a cost-effective, predictable and efficient manner. In even the most time-compressed circumstances, business owners and in-house counsel depend on his practical and business-minded approach to make tough decisions and prevail in difficult negotiations.

Some highlights of Parker’s career include:

Before the sale of a publicly-traded life sciences company to another publicly-traded company, the seller had a capital structure of preferred stock and warrants that was so complicated, most suitors walked away before providing a letter of intent.  Parker anticipated what would be acceptable to all parties involved and worked with the deal team to develop an innovative and complex merger consideration structure and warrant exchange offer that achieved a successful sale.

During the acquisition of a financial services company, Parker acted as buyer’s counsel and identified a fatal problem with the chain of ownership of the target’s intellectual property that would have resulted in the buyer having no ownership rights post-closing. He was instrumental in developing a strategy for cleaning up the problem which took considerable time but ultimately saved the deal from being terminated.

When a consumer products company was on the verge of bankruptcy, Parker was instrumental in negotiating multiple forbearances of the company’s bank debt and selling the company to a strategic buyer for a price that allowed the owners to pay off all creditors and emerge with considerable sale proceeds.

Parked played an instrumental role in the $1.4 billion sale of a publicly traded SAAS company to another publicly traded company.  Parker previously helped the seller go public and grow through multiple acquisitions before its sale.

Publications & Interviews

  • "Ensure that Artful Deals are Painted with the Proper Strokes," Corporate Counsel Business Journal, (December 2019)
  • "SEC's Stance on No-Action Letters Raises Uncertainty," media commentary, Law360 (September 2019)
  • "Innovative Ways to Achieve an Exit," Orange County Business Journal (August 2019)
  • "The Up-C IPO; Strange Name, Bankable Structure," Orange County Business Journal (August 2018)
  • "Innovative Capital Raising for Innovative Orange County Companies", Orange County Business Journal (August 2017)
  • "Healthcare Companies Should Check Their Confidentiality Agreements Before the Whistle Blows", Orange County Business Journal (May 2015)
  •  "Have Credit, Will Close: Existing Credit Facilities Improve Likelihood of Simultaneous Signing and Closing", Orange County Business Journal (July 2014)
  • "SEC Playing Bigger Role In Cybersecurity", The National Law Journal (June 2014)
  • "Sellers: Keep Your Eye on the LOI", Orange County Business Journal (September 2013)
  • "Status: The SEC Just 'Liked' Using Social Media for Certain Company Announcements", Orange County Business Journal (May 2013)
  • "Negotiating Earnouts: Buyer and Seller Beware" (March 2013)

Credentials

Education
  • Boston University School of Law, J.D., 1997
  • Harvard University, B.A., cum laude, 1993
  • Association for Corporate Growth – Orange County
  • OCTANe
  • Orange County Bar Association
  • Vistage International – CEO Group
  • California