Stephanie Hosler concentrates her practice in the areas of business and transactional counseling. Her practice includes mergers and acquisitions, general commercial counseling, joint ventures and strategic alliances, private offerings of securities, stock-for-stock acquisitions, and acquisitions of minority interests. Ms. Hosler has experience representing public companies, closely held businesses, venture capital firms, investment partnerships, portfolio companies of venture capital and buyout firms, and financial institutions. She has experience with companies in a number of different industries, including telecommunications, consumer goods, life sciences, banking, and private equity.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Hosler was a management associate with LEK Alcar, an international consulting firm which focuses in mergers and acquisitions. She was also an associate with a law firm in Chicago, Ill.

Select Representations

Recent transactions handled by Ms. Hosler include:

• Currently representing Tekelec in its $780 million sale to a consortium led by Siris Capital Group LLC
• Represented Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. in its $545 million acquisition of Sara Lee Corporation’s North American refrigerated dough business
• Represented the Board of Directors LaBarge Inc., a publicly held electronics manufacturer, in its $340 million sale to DuCommun Incorporated
• Represented Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. in its $1.2 billion acquisition of American Italian Pasta Company, accomplished by a successful tender offer for American Italian Pasta Co.’s stock followed by a back end merger
• Represented Brown Shoe Company in its $145 million acquisition of American Sporting Goods Corporation, a footwear company
• Represented NS Group, a publicly held manufacturing company, in its $1.5 billion sale to IPSCO
• Represented Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. in its $2.6 billion acquisition of the Post cereals business from Kraft, in a “reverse Morris Trust” structured transaction, which involved operations in Canada
• Represented Tekelec in its $130 million acquisition of Camiant, a policy control company
• Represented Ixia in its $105 million acquisition of Catapult Communications, a leading provider of advanced software-based test systems to the telecom industry, accomplished by a successful tender offer for Catapult Communications followed by a back end merger
• Represented Bunge North America in connection with its joint venture with Itochu Corp. and STX Pan Ocean Co.
• Represented NuVox Communications, Inc. on various offerings and several securities and corporate governance matters
• Represented Alticor Inc. in the purchase of a majority interest in a medical foods company and joint venture arrangement
• Represented Panera Bread Company in connection with its acquisition of various franchisee operations
• Represented Monsanto Company in connection with various strategic investments
• Represented Arch Coal, Inc. in the sale of certain assets related to its Wyoming mining properties to Peabody Energy
• Represented U.S. client in its $25 million acquisition of Irish biotech company
• Represented private equity fund in the sale of a $75 million portfolio company
• Represented publicly held bank in its $100 million sale
• Assisted private equity fund in its formation and various investments in portfolio companies
• Represented telecommunications company in a going private transaction

Bar and Court Admissions

Missouri, 2000

Illinois, 1999

Education

Northwestern University, J.D., cum laude, 1999

Northwestern University, B.A., 1995

Professional Affiliations

• National Hispanic Bar Association

Civic Involvement and Honors

• St. Louis Business Journal, “Forty Under Forty” award, 2012
• Missouri Lawyers Weekly, “Up & Coming Lawyer”, 2011
• National Conference for Community and Justice of Metropolitan Saint Louis, Board of Directors
• Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure, Operations and Teams Committee
• Saint Louis Zoo, Events Committee