Margaret T. Ahern

Prior to joining Calfee in 2022, Maggie served as a legal extern to Justice Michael P. Donnelly of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

She previously served as a law clerk for a Cleveland law firm.

Maggie earned her J.D., summa cum laude, from the Cleveland State University College of Law, where she was a Dean’s Leadership Fellow and Executive Editor of the Journal of Law and Health, with an article selected for publication in the Fall 2021 issue. In addition, Maggie gained experience as a research assistant to Dean Lee Fisher at CSU College of Law. She earned her B.S. in Psychology, magna cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago.

Honors & Recognitions

• Ohio Super Lawyers, Ohio Rising Stars, Business/Corporate (2025)
• Dean’s Leadership Fellow, Cleveland State University College of Law
• CALI Excellence for the Future Award for “High A” in Legal Writing, Fall 2019 and Spring 2020

Education

J.D., summa cum laude, Cleveland State University College of Law, Dean’s Leadership Fellow, Journal of Law and Health Executive Editor, 2022

B.S., magna cum laude, Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, 2017

Experience

Corporate Transactions

• Calfee served as sole corporate legal counsel to a publicly traded, Fortune 1000 company and coordinated input from employment specialists on post-closing restrictive covenants in a matter involving the client's acquisitions of 100% of the outstanding equity interests of a privately held company located on the East Coast. In addition to negotiating the stock purchase agreement, the transaction involved negotiating numerous post-closing covenants and agreements to maximize the ongoing value of the 2023 transaction for Calfee’s client.
• Calfee served as lead and sole legal counsel to a manufacturing portfolio company of a private equity firm in its 2023 acquisition of a woman-owned, California-based manufacturing business.
• Calfee acted as corporate counsel to a West Coast design-build multifamily residential construction subcontractor in connection with the 2023 sale of the Company to a middle-market private equity firm based in the East Coast with $2+ billion in assets under management.
• Calfee served as sole corporate legal counsel to a publicly traded, Fortune 1000 company and coordinated input from employment specialists on post-closing restrictive covenants. Calfee advised the client in its 2022 acquisition of 100% of the outstanding equity interests of three related East Coast construction products installation companies. In addition to negotiating the stock purchase agreement, the transaction involved negotiating numerous post-closing covenants and agreements to maximize the ongoing value of the transaction for Calfee's client.
• Calfee served as sole corporate legal counsel to a publicly traded, Fortune 1000 company and coordinated input from employment specialists on post-closing restrictive covenants. Calfee advised the client in its 2022 acquisitions of substantially all of the assets of a Pennsylvania-based company. In addition to negotiating the purchase agreement, the transaction involved negotiating numerous post-closing covenants and agreements to maximize the ongoing value of the transaction for the client.
• Calfee is serving as exclusive counsel to a publicly traded, multi-billion-dollar multinational holding company in its 2023 sale of all of the equity interests of a provider of extended warranty programs and services. This sale allowed the client company to realize value from the divestiture of a non-core asset of its business.

ESOP Representations

• Calfee served as special ESOP and corporate legal counsel to a privately held Ohio corporation and its shareholders. Calfee advised the client and its wholly owned subsidiaries on all aspects of planning for and implementing the terms of a 2023 sale of all of the company’s outstanding equity to a newly formed Employee Stock Ownership Plan, including reorganizing the consolidated group of companies, designing the ESOP, negotiating the terms of the sale of the client equity to the ESOP, designing and implementing ongoing incentive deferred compensation for different classes of employees and securing and negotiating bank financing. The transaction was important to the selling shareholders because it enabled the client company and its subsidiaries to maintain their culture, provide additional long-term benefits to their employees, and do estate planning for themselves.