Jeffrey M. Koewler

Partner

Assistant:
Emily Laufman
elaufman@delfinomadden.com
916.661.5691

Practice Areas

Jeff Koewler supports clients throughout the United States with general business counsel and representation in significant transactions. Jeff serves as outside general counsel to over 50 companies ranging from small, innovative start-up companies to major institutional investors. In this role, Jeff helps businesses navigate routine business matters as well as more complex legal conflicts, shaping solutions based on decades of relevant experience.

In addition, Jeff represents clients in transaction matters. These include mergers and acquisitions, equity financing (start-up and follow-on financing), loan transactions (borrower and lender clients) and joint ventures. Jeff has represented clients on both sides of over 200 transactions. He takes pride in devising client-favorable solutions to the wide range of issues that transactions inevitably entail.

Jeff has served on numerous community-based boards over the past 25 years. He is dedicated to providing his time and expertise to nonprofit organizations whose missions make the Sacramento region a better place to live and work.

Representative Experience

Represented a manufacturer in a sale of asset transaction with a value of over $250,000,000.
Represented a food processor in a sale of stock transaction with a value of over $200,000,000.
Represented a service provider in a loan transaction of over $80,000,000.
Represented a manufacturer in a loan transaction with a value of over $80,000,000.
Represented an investor in over 15 hedge fund transactions with an average fund size of over $300,000,000.
Represented landowner in 250 acre joint venture development project.
Represented an insurance company in a land development joint venture.
Represented a venture capital fund in a preferred stock purchase of $47,000,000.
Represented a national bank in a $24,000,000 loan transaction.
Represented a service company in a series of acquisitions designed to provide growth and diversity.
Represented a manufacturer in a $20,000,000 joint venture involving the building of a manufacturing facility.
Represented a landowner in $250,000,000 land development joint venture.
Represented a consulting company in a $25,000,000 stock buy-out and debt restructure.

Professional Affiliations

Professional, Community and Pro Bono Involvement

Member, State Bar of California
Member, Sacramento County Bar Association
Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization (SACTO), President, July 2006 – June 2008
Member, SACTO, Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Former General Counsel
Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors
Former Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Executive Committee Member and General Counsel
Advisory Board, Comstock’s Magazine
Advisory Board, U.S. Bank
Former Member Board of Directors, Sacramento Zoological Society
Former Member Board of Directors, The Sutter Club

Honors and Rankings

AV® Preeminent™” Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, 2000 – present
Best Lawyers in America, 2008 – present

Education

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1986
B.S., cum laude, University of California at Berkeley, 1981

Bar Admissions

California, 1986

Court Admissions

United States District Court Eastern District of California

News and Publications

In the News

2013
Law partners work more and play less on their road to retirement
Sacramento Business Journal

2011
Law: Outlook improves slightly, but deals are smaller, fewer than in 2007
Sacramento Business Journal

2010
Bad economy means more litigation work for local law firms
Sacramento Business Journal

2009
Tech Industry Holding Steady: Roundtable sees job creation, cash availability as keys
Sacramento Business Journal

Usual increase in law firm billing rates not happening this year
Sacramento Business Journal

2008
Law firms chase shiny new space on Capitol Mall
Sacramento Business Journal

Power Partners – Law firms find cash–and cachet–in the undefined world of clean energy
Sacramento Business Journal