Biography

Edmund H. Carroll joined Lane & Waterman in 1986 and has 33 years of legal experience. He is admitted to practice in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Ed practices in Corporate & Transactional Law, dealing primarily with:

• preparation and review of complex contracts (e.g., agreements involving master services and supply chain, corporate financings and loans, guarantees, indemnification, hold harmless and limitation of liability, non-compete, buy-sell, licenses, releases, employment, employment terminations and independent contractors)
• negotiating mergers and acquisitions (e.g., agreements involving letters of intent, due diligence, confidentiality and non-disclosure)
• formation of partnerships, joint ventures and limited liability companies and their governance
• securities offerings, reporting and compliance
• intellectual property
• commercial real estate transactions and
• pension and profit sharing law.

Examples of representative transactions include:

• Significant roles in a $562,500,000 sale of a broadcast business involving two public companies, a $749,000,000 purchase of a media company involving a private and public company and a $1,460,000,000 purchase of a media company involving two public companies. Primary responsibility for Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification submissions for these transactions to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.
• Acquisition or sales of well over 150 small and mid-size businesses across various industries.
• Representation of publicly-held companies involving federal securities law compliance, Exchange Act reporting and corporate governance, with primary responsibility for preparation of Securities and Exchange Commission filings disclosing a $840,000,000 debt financing of a public company and a $993,760,000 debt restructuring through a prepackaged Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
• Primary responsibility for preparation of a Securities and Exchange Commission shelf registration statement in connection with the resale of common stock received by warrant holders.
• Negotiation of almost 350 real estate leases for a leading wireless communications company and its legacy companies.
• Negotiation of supply chain contracts with several of the largest Fortune 500 companies and several other large international companies that are expected to reach in the aggregate many billion dollars in volume.
• Representation of a major employee-owned international service firm in corporate governance matters involving stock valuation methods and seeking approval of the changes by the firm’s large number of employee owners.

Ed has been recognized by Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers in the fields of corporate law and mergers & acquisitions. Best Lawyers has again chosen Ed Carroll to be recognized in the 26^th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for his high caliber of work in the practice areas of Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law. Ed Carroll has been recognized by his peers since 2010.

From 1985 to 1986, Ed served as a counsel for U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee. In 2007, the Scott County Family YMCA awarded Ed the Visionary Leadership Award.

Ed is active in the Quad Cities, currently serving the following community organizations:

• Board of Trustees of St. Ambrose University and Chair of its Nominating and Governance Committee
• Member, YMCA of the USA National Committee on Membership Standards Region II Subcommittee
• Board of Directors of the Scott County YMCA and past Chair
• Board of Directors of the Genesis Health Services Foundation
• Board of Directors of Genesis Philanthropy (Chair, 2016-2018)

For over 21 years, Ed served as the Iowa Chair for the Georgetown University Alumni Admissions Program. Also, for at least 20 years, Ed served as the Chair at the Assumption High School Foundation (Davenport, IA).

Ed received his B.A., in History, with distinction, from Georgetown University and his Juris Doctor from Marquette University Law School. He resides, with his wife Molly, in Bettendorf, IA. They have three adult children, working in San Francisco, New York City, and Columbus, OH.

Practice Areas

• Commercial Real Estate
• Corporate
• Finance
• Media Law
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Pension & Profit Sharing
• Securities
• Securities Exchange Compliance
• Wills, Trusts & Estates