Cezar M. Froelich

Cid is a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent-Rated lawyer who helps clients resolve corporate finance and securities, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance with a heavy emphasis on gaming-related matters. Cid often draws from his extensive experience working in the boardrooms as a director of various mid-market and large privately-held and publicly traded companies, including several gaming companies, when advising his clients.

• Represents a large real estate services firm with international operations in connection with its sale to a strategic buyer with global offices.
• Represents several portfolio gaming companies of private equity funds in corporate matters and sales transactions.
• Assisted Board of Director members (including Audit Committee members) of two large NYSE and NASDAQ publicly-traded companies in connection with corporate governance and securities matters, the establishment of internal controls and procedures, conducting internal investigations and other corporate matters.
• Represented the State of New York in connection with the selection and issuance of four gaming licenses.
• Represented an NYSE-listed entity in connection with a going private transaction and oversaw the settlement of class action litigation in connection with the transaction.
• Represented a large institutional investor in connection with reorganizing the capital structure of an entity owning casinos in multiple jurisdictions in Canada.
• Assists several large gaming companies and institutional investors in connection with the acquisition, regulatory, and other gaming matters.
• Represents cities in Massachusetts in connection with gaming matters.
• Represents gaming companies, suppliers, investors, and institutional lenders in gaming matters.

Referenced, “Lightfoot now holds all the cards on Chicago’s big casino deal,” Crain’s Chicago Business, Nov. 5, 2021.

Quoted, Rockford Register Star article, “Hard Rock Casino Rockford Faces Key Hurdle,”  Jan. 27, 2021.

Co-author, “Summary of Illinois Historic Gaming Expansion Bill – Updated,” Taft Law Bulletin, July 1, 2019.