Margaret B. Kushner

Margaret B. Kushner is a retired partner no longer practicing law. To connect with a corporate lawyer, please click here.

Margaret Kushner is a retired partner of the firm. Margaret’s business practice emphasized the structuring, formation and advising of business entities and their owners and the negotiation and documentation of complex transactions. Margaret has extensive experience in partnership matters, including the use, organization and operation of general and limited partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships.

Education

Harvard University Law School, J.D., 1978

Michigan State University, B.A., 1975

• Representing distributor in connection with sale of assets, 2013.
• Represented organic winery in connection with sale of brands and inventory, 2012.
• Represented limited partnership and LLC tenant-in-common in connection with separate apartment refinancings, 2012.
• Represented investment advisory firm in connection with development and documentation of management equity plan, 2011–2012.
• Represented new controlling member of manufacturing enterprise in connection with acquisition of membership interests, complex restructuring as multiple joint ventures and related buy-out of management group, 2011.
• Represented majority LLC member in connection with partial liquidation of LLC interest and restructuring of Delaware series LLC and related entities, 2010.
• Represented mezzanine lender to development project in disposition of mezzanine loan position and negotiation of participation agreement, 2010.
• Represented general partner and limited partnership in connection with partnership's purchase of limited partnership interests, conversion to LLC and negotiation with continuing and new members of LLC operating agreement, 2009.
• Represented limited partner in restructuring of governance of limited partnership and negotiation of purchase terms in pledge agreement in connection with required pledge by general partner to its lender, 2009.
• Represented corporation in connection with issuance of equity position to key employee and related agreements with corporation and majority owner, 2009.
• Represented LLC joint venture between timber companies in connection with joint venture formation, structuring and documentation, 2008.
• Represented investor in limited partnership formed to acquire public company in connection with negotiation of limited partnership agreement, 2008.
• Represented manufacturer in connection with sale of business to management group and negotiation of intercompany agreements, 2007.
• Represented manufacturer in connection with dispositions of dealerships (some operated by LLCs and some by corporations), dissolutions and modifications of joint venture LLCs with dealers, and sale of specialty vehicles division and structuring of equity participation in purchaser LLC, 2005 through 2010. 

• Named by Best Lawyers^® as Mergers & Acquisitions Law “Lawyer of the Year,” Portland, 2022
• Included in The Best Lawyers in America^® (Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law), 2007–2022
• Selected as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” (Oregon) by Chambers USA (Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions), 2007–2018