Experience

Food & Agribusiness

• Represented an international private equity fund in its cross-border majority equity investment in a Pacific Northwest-based orchards company group.
• Represented Label Technology, Inc., a manufacturer of flexible packaging and preformed pouches for consumer products, in connection with its sale to Fortis Solutions Group.
• Represented an East Asia-based strategic acquiror in connection with a proposed acquisition of a U.S. privately held food processing business.
• Represented a vertically integrated U.S. agribusiness, processing and retail business in its cross-border public strategic transaction with an international special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

Healthcare

• Represented a market leader in care management and health improvement, in a private equity recapitalization.
• Represented a Southwest-based ophthalmology practice group in connection with a private equity sponsored management service organization (MSO) roll-up transaction.
• Represented a Southwest-based ophthalmology practice group with retina specialty in its sale to an MSO.
• Represented a multistate dental service organization (DSO) supporting 40+ locations in a recapitalization by a private equity fund.
• Represented a private equity fund in a control investment in an East Coast-based multi-state dental practice group.
• Represented a West Coast-based multi-location orthodontic practice group in connection with a private equity sponsored DSO roll-up transaction.
• Represented a DSO in an acquisition of statewide 10-practice locations of another DSO.
• Represented a California-based DSO in connection with formation, private offering, regulatory compliance and expansions into 10+ U.S. states.
• Represented various regional dental and orthodontic practice groups and DSOs in the Midwest and Southeast in sale transactions with national DSO buyers.
• Represented various dental, orthodontic and oral surgery practice groups and DSOs based in California, Texas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York in connection with DSO formation, restructuring and add-on practice acquisitions and DSO-to-DSO acquisitions.

Technology

• Represented an East Asia-based wireless IoT manufacturing company in connection with its sale of Asian and European operating subsidiaries to a U.S. publicly traded strategic buyer.
• Represented a publicly traded lawn and gardening industry leader in its strategic acquisition of a hydroponics technology company.
• Represented a privately held software company in its strategic acquisitions of real estate SaaS companies based in Texas and Florida.
• Represented a Southwest-based fluidization technology company group in a restructuring and venture capital equity issuance.
• Represented Midwest-based SaaS and biotech startups with formation, bridge financing and venture capital raise transactions.

Other Industries

• Represented an industry leading insurance plans and employee benefits management group in a recapitalization by a national insurance brokerage group.
• Represented a Midwest-based private equity firm and its portfolio companies in strategic acquisitions of a fire suppression company and an electrical construction company.

Honors & Activities

• Included in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America (Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law), 2022