Maureen Easton is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. She has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity and venture capital transactions in a variety of industries including insurance, manufacturing, and financial technologies. Maureen also advises companies in connection with general corporate and governance matters. She works as her clients’ trusted partner to advance their business interests and avoid potential problems through active listening, creative negotiation, and precise drafting of documents. She is a member of the Transactions and Insurance Practice Groups; the Manufacturing and Innovative Technology Sectors; and the Food & Beverage Industry Team, where she leads the firm’s Craft Beer practice.
Maureen’s insurance industry experience includes representation of life and property/casualty insurers in mergers and acquisitions; venture capital investments by insurers in insurtech and fintech companies; mutual insurance holding company mergers and conversions; governance advice; new company formation; and strategic partnership transactions.
Repräsentative Erfahrung
- Represented American Family Insurance in its $1.7B sale of The General® non-standard auto insurance companies to Sentry Insurance
- Represented CUNA Mutual Group in its $1.35B acquisition of Assurant’s global preneed business
- Represent CUNA Mutual Group in its venture capital investments, particularly in the financial technology industry
- Represented National Guardian Life Insurance Company in its acquisition of Everplans, a digital life and estate planning company
- Represented CUNA Mutual Group in its acquisition of ForeverCar and its mechanical repair coverage digital platform and marketing capabilities
- Represented Teel Plastics in its recapitalization with Morgenthaler Private Equity
- Represented National Guardian Life Insurance Company in its strategic partnership with Insurance Capital Group to jointly develop and launch a national dental and vision insurance business
- Represented American Family Insurance in its $1B acquisition of Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance
- Represented American Family Insurance in its mutual holding company merger with Main Street America Group
- Represented American Family Mutual Insurance Company in its conversion to a mutual holding company structure
- Represented American Family Insurance in its $660 million acquisition of Homesite Group, Inc. and its various insurance subsidiaries
- Represented American Family Insurance in its $239 million acquisition of PGC Holdings Corp. and its various insurance subsidiaries
Auszeichnungen und Anerkennungen
- Named to BTI Consulting’s M&A Client Service All-Stars list (2021)
- Selected by Business Magazine’s “40 Under 40” Up-and-Coming Business Leaders in the greater Madison area (2017)
Zugehörigkeiten
- Member, Audit Committee and Governance Committee, Board of Directors of Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company
- Member, Board of Directors, Business Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin
- Member, United Way of Dane County Tocqueville Cabinet
Präsentationen und Veröffentlichungen
- Co-author, Insurance M&A Activity Rebounds, ThinkAdvisor (2021)
- Quoted, Trov’s Evolution: From Barba Streisand to Embedded Insurance, Carrier Management (2021)
- Quoted, Foley & Lardner to add craft beer practice group, Milwaukee Business Journal (2016)
- Quoted, Executive Q&A: Maureen Easton navigates the legalities of brewing, Wisconsin State Journal (2016)
Foley vertritt American Family Insurance beim 1,7 Milliarden Dollar schweren Verkauf von The General an Sentry Insurance
Foley & Lardner LLP war Rechtsberater der American Family Insurance bei der Unterzeichnung einer endgültigen Vereinbarung mit Sentry Insurance über den Verkauf von The General, einer Tochtergesellschaft der American Family Insurance mit Sitz in Nashville, TN.
Foley vertritt SixSibs Capital bei Wachstumskapitalinvestition in Green Light Distribution
Foley & Lardner LLP hat SixSibs Capital kürzlich bei einer Minderheitsbeteiligung an Green Light Distribution beraten, einem führenden Distributor von Wein- und Craft-Spirituosenmarken mit Sitz in Dallas, Texas.
Foley vertritt erfolgreich die City Brewing Company und die Wisconsin Brewing Company in einem Antrag zur Bestätigung der Auftragsfertigung von Spirituosen in Wisconsin
Am 11. Mai 2023 erließ das Finanzministerium von Wisconsin eine Feststellungsentscheidung, in der es zu dem Schluss kam, dass Vertragsfertigung (Co-Packing) und wechselnde Eigentumsverhältnisse zwischen ordnungsgemäß zugelassenen Parteien im Bundesstaat Wisconsin legal sind.
Foley fungiert als Rechtsberater für A1 Garage bei der Wachstumskapitalpartnerschaft mit der Cortec Group
Foley & Lardner LLP fungierte als Rechtsberater für A1 Garage Door Service Holdings, Inc. (A1), einem Marktführer im Bereich der direkten Reparatur- und Austauschdienstleistungen für Garagentore für Privathaushalte, bei dessen Wachstumskapitalpartnerschaft mit einer verbundenen Investmentgruppe unter der Leitung von Cortec Group Fund VII, L.P., einem Investmentportfolio der Cortec Group.
ACC-WI CLE Program and Networking
Please join Foley and ACC-WI for an afternoon of CLE, followed by an outdoor Oktoberfest reception with traditional Bavarian fare and beverages, festive music, and fun.
Foley vertritt TRICOR Insurance bei strategischer Investition von J.C. Flowers
Foley & Lardner LLP vertrat TRICOR Insurance, eine führende unabhängige Versicherungsagentur für Unternehmensversicherungen, Mitarbeiterleistungen, Privatversicherungen sowie individuelle Lebens- und Krankenversicherungen, bei einer strategischen Investition von J.C. Flowers & Co., LLC („J.C. Flowers“), einer führenden privaten Investmentgesellschaft, die sich auf weltweite Investitionen in der Finanzdienstleistungsbranche spezialisiert hat.