Lawyers

Experience

Business and Corporate Law

• Ms. Diehl is an experienced corporate lawyer and co-chair of the firm's Business Department; she also co-chairs the firm's Life Sciences Industry Group
  

Emerging Business and Venture Capital

• Representation of numerous early-stage technology and life science companies in corporate formation, early stage funding and biotech tax credits
• Series B venture round of financing for software company
• Representation of cancer vaccine company in Series B venture round
• Outside general counsel to University-based tech incubator

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Representation of large international supplier of mobile and modular office and storage space in numerous mergers and acquisitions
• Representation of regional petroleum wholesaler in syndicated bank financing of an $80 million acquisition
• Sale of privately held equipment financing company to financial institution for over $50 million
• Representation of publicly held utility in acquisition of privately held energy company
• Representation of information technology company in sale to publicly held industry leader

Life Sciences

• Representation of start-up life sciences companies in corporate formation, early stage funding and biotech tax credits
• Representation of management buy-out of shareholders in unfriendly transaction

Minority, Woman and Veteran Owned Businesses

• Representation of women-owned business entity, including structuring transactions to maintain WBE status

Public Finance, Real Estate Finance, Bonds & Tax-Exempt Financing

• Representation of several non-profit retirement communities in complex restructurings of publicly held and bank debt
• Representation of national network of nonprofit retirement communities in tax-exempt financings
• Representation of multi-hospital health care system in financing expansions and refinancing existing debt
• Representation of affiliated nonprofit retirement communities in Pennsylvania and Maryland in $200 million refinancing and corporate restructuring
• Representation of museum in financing construction projects
• Representation of numerous non-profit institutions in interest rate swaps and other hedging transactions

Project Finance

• Multi-year representation of large regional water and wastewater system in financing of system improvements
• Representation of public and private institutions of higher education, as well as private secondary schools, in financing and refinancing construction projects
• Multi-year representation of multi-hospital health care system in financing expansions and refinancing existing debt aggregating $180 million
• Representation of numerous non-profit institutions in interest rate swaps and other hedging transactions
• Representation of national network of nonprofit retirement communities in tax-exempt financings
• Representation of affiliated nonprofit retirement communities in Pennsylvania and Maryland in $200 million refinancing and corporate restructuring
• Restructuring of over $100 million in publicly held debt in troubled nonprofit organizations

Tax-Exempt Organizations

• Representation of nonprofit organizations, particularly in connection with financings and corporate restructurings

Business Succession Planning

• Ms. Diehl is an experienced business lawyer who has represented many business owners in preparing for and selling their businesses as a result of succession planning efforts.  Many of the merger and acquisition matters listed represent this type of work.

General Information

• AV Peer Review Rated - Martindale Hubbell
• Co-Chair: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston's Business Department
• Member: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Executive Board
• Board of Governors, Maryland State Bar Association (2009-2011)
• Advisory Board, UMBC Tech Center (2005 to date)
• Board of Directors (2008 to date) and Executive Committee, United Way of Central Maryland (2010 to date)
• Board Member, Sellinger School of Business & Management, Loyola University (2011 to date)
• Member:  Business Law Section Council, Maryland State Bar Association (Chair, 2002-2003)
• Recognized by Who's Who in America and related publications
• Participant, Leadership Maryland, 1997
• Member:  National Association of Bond Lawyers
• Speaker:  "Fundamentals of a Corporate Transaction - Structuring the Deal"; Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers
• Speaker:  "Where, Oh Where, Has My Tenant Gone? Assignment Clauses in the Age of Chameleon Entities"; American Bar Association Annual Meeting
• Speaker:  "Limited Liability Companies"; Women's Bar Association of Maryland
• Author:  "Successor Corporation Liability: Traps for the Unwary in Asset Acquisitions"; Maryland Bar Journal
• Speaker:  "Fraudulent Conveyances"; Client Seminar
• Speaker:  "Corporate Ethics"; Executive Women's Network
• Co-Author:  "Is Mandatory Disclosure of Professional Liability Insurance Coverage Coming to Maryland?" Business Law, Volume Nine, No. One (2005).
• Listed in Maryland Super Lawyers, 2007-2011
• Listed in Woodward's White's Best Lawyers in America, 2008-present
  

Education

• Syracuse University College of Law (J.D. 1976)
• St. Lawrence University (B.A. 1973)