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Harold O. (“Hal”) Maxfield, Jr. is a shareholder and member of the Board of Directors.
Hal has 35 years of experience in all aspects of corporate and real estate business practices. Hal’s corporate experience includes contract negotiation and preparation, tax planning, mergers, acquisitions, and related transactions. He represents public and privately-held companies, individuals, and numerous non-profit organizations on a wide variety of legal issues, which include choice of entity, financing, venture capital equity investment, management buy-outs, executive compensation, and corporate succession planning.
Hal’s real estate experience includes purchases, sales, financing, zoning, construction, environmental, development, joint ventures, and like-kind exchanges. He also represents banks and borrowers in financing transactions, landlords and tenants in office, industrial, and retail transactions, and owners in all aspects of real estate law.
He is an active member in the Ohio Bar Association and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and has been named an Ohio Super Lawyer by Law & Politics. He is also included in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. For over twenty-five years, Hal has been co-editor of the Ohio Transaction Guide, published by Mathew Bender & Co. and Rabkin and Johnson Current Legal Forms.
Hal joined Cavitch in 1986 after he attained his Juris Doctor degree (cum laude) from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1986 and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Baldwin-Wallace in 1983 with a concentration in accounting. While he was attending law school, Hal was a member of the Cleveland-Marshall College Law Review.
Practice Areas
Education
- Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, Ohio
- Juris Doctor – 1986
- Honors: cum laude
- Baldwin-Wallace College
- Bachelor of Arts degree – 1983
- Major:
Accounting
Bar Admissions
- Ohio, 1986
Professional Associations
- Association for Corporate Growth in Cleveland
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- Ohio Bar Association
Published Works
- Co-Editor, Ohio Transaction Guide, Mathew Bender & Co. and Rabkin and Johnson Current Legal Forms
Pro-Bono Activities
- Exit Planning Institute of NE Ohio
- Ohio Super Lawyer by Law & Politics
- 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America
- Sale of assets of plating company as part of industry roll-up. The value was in excess of $28 million. We represented the Seller.
- Purchase of assets of fastener company. The value was in excess of $7 million.
- Over the past several years, we have represented the same Buyer in numerous asset transactions, some of which are listed below.
- Purchase of assets of manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $12 million;
- Purchase of assets of manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $3 million;
- Purchase of assets of manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $27 million;
- Purchase of assets of manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $20 million;
- Purchase of assets of manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $8.2 million;
- Purchase of assets of manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $102.5 million;
- Purchase of assets of manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $31.5 million;
- The purchase of stock of a manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $100 million;
- The purchase of assets of a manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $60 million;
- The purchase of stock of a manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $31 million;
- The purchase of stock of a manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $14.5 million, and
- The purchase of stock of a manufacturing company. The value of the transaction was in excess of $41 million.
- Purchase of assets of contract electronic manufacturing firm. The value was in excess of $3 million.
- Merger of two recycling companies into one company. The total value of the transaction was in excess of $15 million.
- Purchase of assets of scrap dealer. The value was in excess of $5 million. We represented Buyer.
- Sale of units of an oil fracking service company. The value was in excess of $150 million. We represented the Seller.
- Sale of stock of electronics manufacturing company. The value was in excess of $48 million. We represented Seller.
- Sale of assets of pet toy manufacturer. The value was in excess of $18 million. We represented the Seller.
- Sale of stock of drone manufacturer. The value was in excess of$20 million. We represented the Seller.
- Sale of market research company. The value was in excess of $11 million. We represented the Seller.
- Sale of stock of manufacturing company. The value was in excess of $25 million. We represented the Seller.
- Sale of assets of insurance services company. The value was in excess of $22 million. We represented the Seller.
- Sale of auto after-market manufacturing company. The value was in excess of $48.5 million. We represented Seller.