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Larry A. Koch 
Partner

p 612.672.8322
f612.642.8322
larry.koch@maslon.com

3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402

Larry Koch has more than 30 years of experience in a wide variety of legal and business issues. He concentrates his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, intellectual property, employee benefit and retirement plans, executive compensation and stock options, as well as the taxation of acquisitions, partnerships, estates and gifts. Larry represents a wide variety of clients, ranging from single sales representatives to multinational corporations. His clients include individuals, professional service organizations, computer software and other high tech companies, manufacturing and testing companies, restaurants and real estate developers, both public and private corporations, and others. In addition to acting as general counsel to clients, Larry negotiates and closes acquisitions. He has represented many of his clients for more than ten years.

Areas of Practice
  • Business & Securities
  • Business Counseling
  • Closely Held Businesses
  • Growth Businesses
  • Employee Benefits
  • Executive Compensation & Agreements
  • Intellectual Property Counseling
  • Management and Leveraged Buyouts
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Private Placements
  • Public Offerings
  • Tax
  • Estate Planning
  • Wills & Trusts
  • Estate and Gift Tax Planning
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Asset Protection Planning
  • Retirement Benefit Planning
  • Antenuptual and Postnuptial Agreements
  • Real Estate
  • Acquisitions, Sales and Exchanges
  • Purchase and Sale Transactions
  • Commercial Leasing
Education
  • New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1982
    LL.M.
    Major: Taxation
  • University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1977
    J.D.
    Honors:  with Distinction
    Honors:  West Publishers Award for Highest Grade in Business Planning
  • North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, 1974
    B.S.
    Honors:  Sigma Pi Sigma
    Honors:  Phi Kappa Phi
    Major: Physics
Bar Admissions
  • Minnesota, 1986
  • North Dakota, 1977
  • Oklahoma, 1984
  • U.S. Tax Court, 1982
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 1981
Representative Clients
  • Individuals
  • Professional Service Organizations
  • Computer Software Companies
  • Other High Tech Companies
  • Telecommunications Companies
  • Manufacturing and Testing Companies
  • Restaurants
  • Real Estate Developers
  • Private Corporations
  • Public Corporations
Professional Associations and Memberships
  • American Bar Association - Member; Business, Tax, Intellectual Property Section - Member; Real Property Probate and Trust Section - Member
  • Minnesota State Bar Association - Member
  • Hennepin County Bar Association - Member
  • Oklahoma Bar Association - Member
  • State Bar Association of North Dakota - Member
Pro Bono Activities:
  • Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, 2007 Senior Legal Fair - Presenter
Classes Taught
  • “Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later. How Will IRC §409A Final Regulations Impact Executive Compensation?”, Maslon Speaker Series, 2007
  • “Advanced Employee Benefits Workshop”, Minnesota CLE, 1990
Honors and Awards
  • Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Business Planning

Experience

  • Represented Osmonics, Inc. (a New York Stock Exchange company and manufacturer of water processing equipment) in connection with its acquisition by General Electric Company for more than $270 million. 
  • Represented management in connection with the acquisition of PaR Systems (a manufacturer of robotic equipment) by outside investors and management. 
  • Represented Miller Pasta, LLC in connection with the acquisition of the pasta division of Hershey Foods Corporation for more than $450 million by a private investment group led by his client. 
  • Represented the shareholders of Aerosim Technologies, Inc. (an aerospace software and simulator developer) in connection with the sale of a majority interest in the company to a private investment group.
  • Represented several closely held manufacturing companies in the spin-off depressed assets to take advantage low tax rates, saving shareholders substantial income and estate taxes.
  • Structured a reverse stock split and redemption of fractional shares of minority shareholders of Cold Spring Granite Company in process that avoided dissenters' rights. The process was approved by the Minnesota Supreme Court in U.S. Bank, N.A. v. Cold Spring Granite Co., 802 N.W.2d 363 (Minn. 2011).
  • Represented the shareholders in the sale of Miller Milling Company (the largest durum milling company in the U.S.), and its affiliates, Miller Trading Company and its Miller Milling Company Limited Partnership, to an affiliate of Nisshin Seifun Group Inc. of Japan, for more than $122 million.
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