About Ted Grippo
Education:
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Practice:
Ted
represented major corporations regarding the issuance of securities in
public and private offerings, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures,
takeover defenses, corporate governance and other significant
transactions. His representation included: Tribune Corporation, Snap-On
Tools, American Hospital Supply Corporation, Signode Corporation,
Fireman’s Fund, American Express, Methode Electronics, First Illinois
Corporation, United States Gypsum, Frantz Manufacturing, Handshy
Industries, and HMO America. He also acted as underwriter’s counsel for
Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch in two public offerings. Ted had
primary responsibility for mergers and acquisitions in virtually every
commercial jurisdiction in America, and in England, France, Germany,
Belgium, Denmark, South Africa and Japan. Ted was an NASD arbitrator
and an active member of the American and Chicago Bar Associations.
Legal Writings:
First
Place Lincoln Award of the Illinois State Bar Association (1962), for:
“Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies: Need or Nuisance?” 50 Illinois
Bar Journal 494. Co-authored the following: “Corporate Stock
Repurchases and Going Private” Bureau of National Affairs, Corporate
Practice Series (2001); “Chapter 19 – Going Private” Illinois Institute
for Continuing Legal Education (1989); “In Defense of State Takeover
Laws” 8 Northern Illinois University Law Journal 273 (1988); “MITE Made
Right: The Supreme Court Gives Illinois New Hope for a Takeover Law” 76
Illinois Bar Journal 844 (1987); and authored: “Use of the Tax-Free
Triangular Merger for the Acquisition of Two Corporations with
Cross-Ownership” 14 John Marshall Law Review 33 (1980); “Rule 145: A
Rule for Business Combinations” Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal
Education (1979); and “How The New S.E.C. Rule 145 Affects Business
Combinations” 55 Chicago Bar Record 11 (1973).
Book Publication:
With Malice Aforethought: The Execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Bloomington: iUniverse, 2011.
Teaching:
John Marshall Law School – one semester – “Securities Regulation” (3 hour course). Approximately 1975-1976. (Dean Herzog).
Loyola
Law School – Business Planning “Integrating Securities, Corporate and
Tax Laws in Complex Corporate Transactions” (3 hour course), taught once
a year for four or five years, approximately 1977-1980 (Dean Charles
Murdock).