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David A.Neuhardt

Partner
Dayton

O 937.443.6775

David A.Neuhardt

Partner
Dayton

O 937.443.6775

Dave is a partner in the firm's Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group. He focuses his practice on acquisitions/divestitures, corporate governance, securities law compliance and corporate finance.

He works primarily with public and private companies in a variety of manufacturing and service businesses, including companies in the paper and packaging, software, media, public utility, distribution and light manufacturing industries.

Acritas Star
Best Lawyers 2025

Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for 25 years or longer.

Focus Areas

Representative merger/acquisition transactions in which Dave has represented clients include:

  • Principal transaction counsel in the $2.5 billion sale of a NYSE listed manufacturing company
  • Principal transaction counsel in the $600 million acquisition of a NYSE listed oil field equipment manufacturer
  • Principal transaction counsel for the acquisition by a public company of a $525 million marketing services company
  • Principal transaction counsel in both the purchase and the sale of manufacturing businesses for a very large Swiss-based industrial equipment manufacturer
  • Principal transaction counsel for the $200 million sale of a family-owned international industrial services company
  • Principal outside counsel in the acquisition or divestiture of nearly 20 businesses by a large international legal services provider
  • Representation of a large, family-owned construction and real estate investment company in a restructuring/spinoff to resolve family disagreement
  • “Whose Privilege Is It? The Attorney-Client Privilege in M&A Transactions,” Thompson Hine Business Law Update, Summer 2019
  • “SEC Addresses Exemption for Sales of Securities to Employees,” Thompson Hine Business Law Update, Fall 2018
  • “Ohio Changes Duty Requirements for Limited Liability Companies,” Thompson Hine Business Law Update, Fall 2016
  • “New Ohio Corporation Law Provisions Define Officers’ Fiduciary Duty, Limit Liability,” Thompson Hine Corporate Law Update, July 2016
  • “‘Fix’ May Be on the Way for Controversial Ohio Limited Liability Company Act Provision,” Thompson Hine Business Law Update, Winter 2016
  • “Supreme Court: Defendants May Rebut Basic, Inc. Presumption of Reliance Before Class Certification,” Thompson Hine Corporate Law Update, June 23, 2014
  • Selected as an Acritas Star, a “client-nominated, stand-out lawyer”
  • AV® Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Named in Legal 500 United States (Middle-Market M&A), 2015 to 2018
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® since 1997 for Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Securities/Capital markets Law
  • Named the Best Lawyers® 2012 Corporate Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Dayton
  • Selected to the Ohio Super Lawyers list, 2005 to 2008 and 2010 to 2012
  • Dayton Business Journal’s Best of the Bar, 2005

Professional Associations

  • Ohio State Bar Association
  • Dayton Bar Association

Community Activities

  • American Veterans Heritage Center, trustee and secretary
  • Dayton Area League of Women Voters, counsel
  • Tecumseh Land Trust, secretary and executive committee
  • Yellow Springs Historical Society, president and trustee

Education

  • The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, J.D., 1979,
    summa cum laude
    ,

    Order of the Coif

  • Miami University, B.A., 1976,
    cum laude
    ,

    Phi Beta Kappa

Bar Admissions

  • Ohio