Meera R. Modi

Overview

Meera represents founders, executives, and businesses in mergers, acquisitions, sales, and other strategic ventures. She advises clients in business transactions, focusing on practical legal guidance for growth opportunities and deal-related challenges.

In the M&A community, Meera is regarded as a dealmaker and closer, skilled at managing transactions while keeping her clients’ business goals and objectives at the forefront. Her solutions-based negotiating style is often recognized as a key driver in getting deals across the finish line.

Over her career, Meera has built a niche practice advising founders on strategic exit and liquidity options, whether to strategic or financial buyers, including private equity firms and other institutional investors. She has extensive experience with deals involving representation and warranty insurance and helps sellers significantly minimize their post-sale transaction liability. Meera also represents buyers in roll-up transactions and advises on post-transaction integration matters.

Meera has served as outside general counsel to numerous companies, including family-owned businesses. She leverages her experience advising companies on fiduciary duties, contract issues, compliance concerns, and general corporate reviews to support clients beyond the transaction. She collaborates closely with business teams to develop and implement effective legal strategies by negotiating and documenting arrangements involving customers, vendors, strategic partners, employees, and owners. Her prior board service with Orrstown Financial Services, Inc., and its principal subsidiary, Orrstown Bank, provides her with unique insight into the challenges and opportunities public companies face.