Michelle Hodges is a partner in the Orange County office of Gibson Dunn. Ms. Hodges has significant experience representing both buyers and sellers in mergers, acquisitions and strategic investments, and issuers in public equity and debt offerings, private financings and debt restructuring. Ms. Hodges also advises public and private companies, and their boards, with respect to general corporate matters, including securities law advice.
Selected M&A Experience:
sTec, Inc. – sale to Western Digital Corporation
Quidel Corporation – acquisition of privately held BioHelix Corp.
Tucson Padres – sale of minor league baseball team
Bausch + Lomb Surgical – acquisition of Technolas Perfect Vision
Emulex Corporation – acquisition of privately held ServerEngines Corporation
Quidel Corporation – acquisition of privately held Diagnostic Hybrids, Inc.
The First American Corporation – acquisition of its publicly traded subsidiary, First Advantage Corporation
InterDigital Communications – exploration of strategic alternatives
Emulex Corporation – defense against attempted hostile takeover by Broadcom Corporation
Endocare, Inc. – acquisition by HealthTronics, Inc.
Allergan, Inc. – $3.2 billion acquisition of publicly traded Inamed Corporation
Eclipsys Corporation – acquisition of multiple privately held companies providing clinical management software
Selected Securities Offerings Experience:
Quidel Corporation – common stock offering
Standard Pacific Corp. – multiple offerings, including common stock offerings, public and Rule 144A senior and senior subordinated note offerings; debt tenders; convertible note offering and concurrent share lending arrangement; secondary offerings by shareholder; rights offerings; and note redemptions
Qwest Communications International Inc. – multiple note offerings and exchange offers
Selected Strategic Investments Experience:
Standard Pacific Corp. – preferred stock issuance to MatlinPatterson affiliate and concurrent rights offering
Ascendant MDx – strategic investment
Emulex Corporation – strategic investment
Ms. Hodges earned her law degree and Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned a bachelor of Horticultural Science degree with honors from Massey University, New Zealand.
