Danae Vansickle Grace

About Danae Vansickle Grace

Danae Grace is a transactional lawyer known for her representation of her clients’ interests in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations, and general corporate matters. Her clients come from a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, real estate, financial services, software, food manufacturing and distribution, and retail. She excels at identifying the key issues requiring the attention of her clients while being able to effectively manage complex transactions and utilize the expertise of others within the firm to provide highly integrated legal solutions for her clients. Danae is particularly regarded for her responsiveness and deep respect of her client’s needs, such as quickly returning their calls, taking the time to deeply understand their businesses, and working efficiently while maximizing their results.

Experience

1. Shareholder

   McAfee & Taft

   Aug 2011 — Present · Oklahoma City, OK, US

   Recognized as an extremely hard worker, her primary focus is representing private and public companies in mergers and stock and asset acquisitions and sales of all sizes. Over the course of her career, she has represented buyers and sellers, private equity investors, and companies raising capital from investors in the form of preferred equity, convertible debt, and other structures. A large portion of Danae’s practice is also dedicated to counseling businesses and assisting them with day-to-day general corporate governance and transactional matters. In addition to being well versed in formation and structuring of corporations, LLCs, and partnerships, she also regularly assists clients in reviewing various types of contracts and agreements with a keen eye for identifying potential pitfalls and limiting liability and risks.Together with her M&A experience, Danae often counsels clients in real estate and commercial lending transactions.Experience- Represented The Charles Machine Works, Inc, parent company of Ditch Witch, American Augers, and other leading brands in the underground construction market, in the sale of the privately held company to The Toro Company (NYSE: TTC)- Represented Tyson Foods, Inc, the nation’s largest protein-focused food company, and its subsidiaries in their acquisition of the poultry rendering and blending assets of American Proteins, Inc. and AMPRO Products for approximately $850 million- Represented Virgo Capital in the sale of its investment in Sayers Technology, LLC, a leading provider of data center infrastructure and other IT solutions, to Mosaic Capital Partners. The transaction, which was structured as an asset and membership interest sale, resulted in the restructuring of the ownership of Sayers Technology as an ESOP- Represented an 87-store grocery chain in corporate matters, acquisitions, sales, and leasing transactions.

Education

• University of Oklahoma College of Law

  Juris Doctor

  2009 — 2011

• Oklahoma Baptist University

  Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

  2003 — 2007