About Lyle G. Ganske
Practice Areas
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Corporate Law
- Energy, Oil & Gas Law
- Consumer Law
- Financial
- Natural Resources Law
Education
- The Ohio State University College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, 1984J.D.
- Honors: With Honors 1984
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Bowling Green State University, 1981B.S.B.A.
- Honors: summa cum laude
Representative Cases
- A. Schulman defends against proxy solicitation by Barington Capital
- A. Schulman, Inc. executes merger agreement with ICO for $191.4 million (2010)
- Acme-Cleveland Corp defends against $201 million unsolicited tender offer by Danaher Corp (2009)
- Albertson's acquired by consortium of investors for $17.4 billion (2009)
- Alderwoods adopts shareholders' rights plan
- Alderwoods defends against lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and hostile work environment brought by former employee (2009)
- Alderwoods Group acquired by Service Corporation International for $1.2 billion (2009)
- Allen Telecom acquired by Andrew Corp.
- Alliant Techsystems adopts shareholders' rights plan
- American Greetings acquires Gibson Greetings (2009)
- American Greetings acquires Papyrus trademark and wholesale business (2009)
- Atlas Energy merges with Atlas America (2009)
- Brush Engineered Materials adopts shareholders' rights plan
- CIPSCO merges with Union Electric, creating Ameren Corporation (2009)
- Cleveland-Cliffs adopts shareholders' rights plan
- Cleveland-Cliffs defends proxy solicitation by David F. Bolger
- Cleveland-Cliffs defends proxy solicitation by Tiger Management
- Cliffs Natural Resources proposes to acquire Alpha Natural Resources for $10 billion (2009)
- Cole National adopts shareholders' rights plan
- CTG Resources merges with Energy East Corporation in $554 million stock-for-stock merger (2009)
- CTS Corp adopts shareholders' rights plan
- DDR sells minority stake to Otto family for $112.5 million (2009)
- Diebold acquires Global Election Systems (2009)
- Diebold acquires Sersi Italia (2009)
- Diebold acquires TFE Technology (2009)
- Diebold adopts shareholders' rights plan
- Diebold establishes contract manufacturing agreement with Tata Infotech (2009)
- Diebold implements stock repurchase program (2009)
- Diebold purchases Mosler assets (2009)
- Diebold sell campus card systems business (2009)
- Diebold successfully defends against $2.2 billion hostile bid by United Technologies Corp. (2009)
- DTE Energy adopts shareholders' rights plan
- Elder-Beerman Stores adopt shareholders' rights plan
- EnPro Industries adopts shareholders' rights plan
- Federated Department Stores' $17 billion acquisition of May Department Stores is largest U.S. retail deal to date (2009)
- Federated Department Stores acquires Liberty House
- Federated Department Stores adopts shareholders' rights plan
- Federated Department Stores implement stock repurchase program
- Federated sells Lord & Taylor division to NRDC Equity Partners (2009)
- Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. defends against $1.86 billion cash tender offer
- Flowers Industries adopts shareholders' rights plan
- Galileo International adopts shareholders' rights plan
- GenCorp completes spin-off of public polymer products businesses (2009)
- GenCorp defends against a $1.2 billion unsolicited takeover bid by Steel Partners (2009)
- GenCorp defends against proxy solicitation by Pirate Capital's Jolly Roger hedge fund (2009)
- GenCorp successfully defends against $2.2 billion unsolicited cash tender offer (2009)
- Gliatech adopts shareholders' rights plan (2009)
- Goldman Sachs acts as financial advisor to FTD Group, Inc. in its acquisition by United Online, Inc.
- Goodrich Corp creates spin-off of Engineered Industrial Products Division
- Goodrich merges with United Technologies for $18.4 billion (2011)
- Harman International Industries adopts shareholders' rights plan
- HNI Corp adopts shareholders' rights plan
- HQ Global Workplaces acquired by Regus Group
- International Coal Group acquires Anker Coal for $198 million (2009)
- International Coal Group acquires CoalQuest Development for $101 million (2009)
- International Steel Group merges with Ispat International (2009)
- J.M. Smucker Company adopts shareholders' rights plan
- Jefferies acts as financial advisor to Claymont Steel in acquisition by Evraz Group S.A. and Titan Acquisition Sub, Inc. (2009)
- Jefferies acts as financial advisor to Hologic in its $6.2 billion acquisition of Cytyc Corporation (2009)
- KeyBanc serves as financial advisor in Myers Industries acquisition
- KU Energy Corp merges with LG&E Corp. (2009)
- Lamson & Sessions adopts shareholders' rights plan
- Loewen completes funeral home transactions and successfully defends against hostile takeover attempt (2009)
- LTV Corporation sells integrated steel assets to WL Ross & Co. (2009)
- Lubrizol acquired by Berkshire Hathaway for $9.7 billion (2011)
- M. A. Hanna Company adopts shareholders' rights plan
- M. A. Hanna Company completes merger of equals with Geon (2009)
- McDonald & Co. Securities acquires Crossman Communities
- McDonald & Co. Securities acquires Masco Tech (2009)
- Mesa Airlines acquires America West in bankruptcy buyout (2009)
- National City acquires Allegiant Bancorp (2009)
- National City acquires First of America Bank Corp.
- National City acquires Provident Financial Group
- National City Corp sells First Franklin for $1.3 billion to Merrill Lynch (2009)
- National City issues stock to Corsair Capital (2009)
- National City merges with Fort Wayne National Corp.
- National City sells National Processing to Bank of America
- Nationwide Insurance acquires Harleysville Mutual Insurance and Harleysville Group for $840 million (2011)
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. acquires Gartmore Global Investments
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. acquires Nationwide Financial Services for $2.4 billion
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. acquires THI Holdings (2009)
- Nevada Power merges with Sierra Pacific Resources
- Nextel merges with Sprint and resolves related disputes involving put shares and branding issues (2009)
- OM Group acquires electronics business of Rockwood Holdings for $315 million (2009)
- Penton Media adopts shareholders' rights plan
- PolyOne acquires GLS (2009)
- PolyOne Corporation sells Engineered Films Business to a management investor group
- PolyOne sells Elastomers and Performance Additives business
- PolyOne sells interest in Oxy Vinyls to Occidental Chemical Corp (2009)
- RMI Titanium Company adopts shareholders' right plan (2009)
- Rubbermaid adopts shareholders' rights plan (2009)
- Rubbermaid merges with Newell Companies
- Safeguard Properties to acquire Bank of America's field servicing business (2012)
- Seneca Investments acquires AGENCY.com (2009)
- Sherwin-Williams adopts a shareholders' rights plan (2009)
- Sky Financial Group acquires Union Federal Bank for $330 million (2009)
- Special Committee of Board of Directors of EXCO Resources advised in proposed $4.4 billion offer from Douglas H. Miller to purchase outstanding shares of stock (2011)
- Special Committee of Board of Directors of Hawk Corporation advised in $413 million acquisition by Carlisle Companies (2010)
- Spectrum adds Russell Hobbs to its portfolio to create $3 billion global consumer products company (2010)
- Timken acquires EXTEX (2009)
- Timken Company acquires aircraft component manufacturer The Purdy Corp. (2009)
- Timken Company acquires Torrington Division of Ingersoll-Rand Company (2009)
- Timken Company adopts shareholders' rights plan (2009)
- Timken Company forms joint venture with Japan's Sanyo Special Steel Co. Ltd. and Showa Seiko Co. Ltd
- Timken Company sells stake in NSK Torrington Co. (2009)
- Timken sells needle roller bearings business to JTEKT (2009)
- Transtar Industries acquired and recapitalized by Linsalata Capital Partners (2009)
- Triarc Companies acquires Wendy's International for $2.3 billion (2009)
- TRW Inc. adopts shareholders' rights plan
- Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation merges with Valero Energy (2009)
- United States Shoe Corp. defends against $1.4 billion solicited tender offer by Luxottica Group (2009)
- Universal Electronics and Maxim purchase Zilog universal remote control and secure transaction businesses (2009)
- USG Corp rights offering for $1.8 billion (2009)
- Washington Group International adopts shareholders' rights plan (2009)
- Wasserstein Perella & Co. acts as financial advisor in the acquisition of BHC Communications
- WL Ross leads buyout of Horizon Natural Resources (2009)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
Past Positions
- Judge Craig Wright, Ohio Supreme Court, Law Clerk, - 1985
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