Serving a wide range of companies, funds, investors and advisors, Olshan lawyers regularly advise clients on the formation, operation and regulation of private funds.
With a deep understanding of market trends and dynamics, Olshan offers innovative and strategic guidance to clients in structuring, negotiating and executing private equity and venture capital transactions.
Recognized Leaders in the Field
Our team has a proven record of successfully closing some of the most impressive deals in recent years, including a “Private Equity Deal of the Year” award from M&A Advisor.
Representing Investors and Issuers
We advise both issuer and investor clients engaging in equity financings and acquisitions at all stages of a company’s lifecycle, from series seed at formation to rollup transactions, leveraged buyouts of publicly traded companies and loan-to-own strategies. Recent transactions have included the following across a wide array of industries globally:
- Privately negotiated asset and company acquisitions for both buyers and sellers
- Leveraged buyouts
- Management-led buyouts
- Rollups
- Minority investments
- Early and late-stage venture investments
- Restructurings, including loan-to-own transactions
- Recapitalizations
- Going-private transactions
- PIPE transactions
- Spinoffs
- Divestitures
- Equity rollovers
- Implementation of management incentive plans
Cross-Disciplinary Experience and an Integrated Team
Our private equity team is a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary group of lawyers who offer sound solutions and first-rate representation tailored to meet each client’s business objectives.
We work closely with lawyers from our Employment Practices, Employee Benefits, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax & Personal Planning, and Intellectual Property Groups, who provide valuable insight to ensure issues are considered and potential problems are avoided, resulting in a seamless experience for our clients.
- Represented sellers in the sale of their shares of 7 Brew to Blackstone Inc.
- Represented Chatham Asset Management in its successful acquisition of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company following its unsolicited bid to acquire the company.
- Represented Success Foods Management Group, LLC (d/b/a Torchy’s Tacos) in a significant minority private equity investment by General Atlantic. Following this transaction, he represented the founders of Torchy’s Tacos in the $325 million sale of their membership interests to affiliates of T. Rowe Price, D1 Capital Partners, Lone Pine Capital, and XN Capital.
- Represented Landry’s, Inc. in its acquisition of B.R. Guest Holdings, which owns and operates restaurant concepts including Atlantic Grill, Bill's Bar and Burger, Blue Water Grill, Dos Caminos, Isabella’s and Strip House, from an affiliate of Starwood Capital Group.
- Represented leading national consumer-facing franchise business in preferred unite equity raise and recapitalization transaction with global private equity fund.
- Represented public company subsidiary in numerous preferred equity control investments in a variety of healthcare companies.
- Represented a world-renowned academic research institution in structuring equity rights in dozens of cutting-edge life science companies.
- Represented Kaufman Astoria Studios in its sale to the joint venture of Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management. The transaction was later named a winner in the 21st Annual M&A Advisor Awards in the category “Private Equity Deal of the Year (between $500MM - $1B).
- Represented Alleghany Capital Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alleghany Corporation, in the acquisition by its subsidiary Precision Cutting Technologies of a majority interest in Coastal Industrial Distributors, LLC, dba CID Performance Tooling.
- Represented Alleghany Capital Corporation subsidiary, R.C. Tway Company, LLC (dba Kentucky Trailer) in its acquisition of a majority interest in CEI Equipment Company LLC.
- Represented Clarion Events, one of the world’s leading event organizers, in the acquisition of PennWell Corporation, a privately-held events and business-to-business media and marketing services company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Clarion is owned by funds managed by Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms.
- Represented Mindful Foods, Inc., manufacturer of grain-free, paleo and non-GMO backed goods, in connection with its initial round of institutional financing.
- Represent a venture capital fund in connection with its formation and investment activity. The fund specializes in the identification, capitalization and development of breakthrough and disruptive opportunities in the ophthalmic space.
- Represented Caymus Equity Partners in partnering in the acquisition of, and securing senior and mezzanine financing for, a controlling interest in Excel Orthopedic Rehabilitation, a premier provider of sports and orthopedic physical therapy and rehabilitation services through 8 physical therapy centers in northern New Jersey.
- Represented leading fitness club franchisee in equity investment from market-leading private equity fund.
- Representing private equity backed, publishing business acquisition platform in formation, capital raising and publishing company acquisition.
- Represented hybrid private equity/hedge fund in acquisitions of numerous portfolio companies in the energy industry.
- Represented private equity fund as guarantor and sponsor of various project financings, corporate term loans and revolvers.
- Represented private equity fund in connection with ring fencing of assets for global portfolio company’s financing and international tax restructuring.
- Represented Bourn & Koch, Inc., a subsidiary of Alleghany Capital Corporation, in acquisition of Diamond Technology Innovations, Inc., a leading manufacturer of waterjet orifices and nozzles as well as related products.
- Represented Omni New York, LLC in connection with a majority equity investment by Stone Point Capital LLC, a private equity firm.
- Represented Argentum Capital Partners III, L.P. in a $5.75 million investment in ITS Compliance, Inc.
- Represented Argentum Capital Partners III, L.P. in connection with its investment in Transformative Pharmaceutical Solutions LLC.
- Represented Firebirds International, LLC, which owns and operates 18 Firebirds Wood Fired Grill locations nationwide, in its acquisition by Angelo, Gordon & Co.'s Private Equity Group.
- Represented NuCO2 Inc., a Nasdaq-listed company, in its $487 million acquisition by Aurora Capital Group, a private equity firm.
- Represented Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, Inc., owner of the high-end Del Frisco Double Eagle Steakhouse restaurants, in its $600 million acquisition by Lone Star Funds, a private equity firm.
- Represented Taste It Presents in its sale of LLC interests to AUA Private Equity Partners, LLC, a private equity firm.
- Represented Caymus Equity Partners LLC, a private equity firm, in the acquisition and related financing of FST Technical Services LLC.
- Represented Royal News Corp. in its acquisition of ACW from Axio.
- Represented Block Vision Holdings Corporation in a successful $45 million sale of itself to Superior Vision Holdings, Inc., a managed vision care provider controlled by private equity firm Nautic Partners.
- Represented Ness Technologies, Inc., a global provider of IT services and solutions, from its formation in 1999, including its venture capital financings, numerous acquisitions in the United States and in Eastern Europe and its $160 million initial public offering and listing on the NASDAQ Stock Market, and through its acquisition in 2011 by Citi Venture Capital International, a global private equity investment fund.
- Represented Prime Hospitality Corp., a NYSE listed company, in an $800 million transaction with Blackstone Inc.
- Represented an Icelandic prosthetics manufacturer in the acquisition of a prosthetics and orthotic device manufacturing portfolio company from a private equity firm for $216 million.
- Represented a private equity firm in the acquisition of an integrated information management company in a transaction valued at approximately $30 million.
- Represented an industrial products provider in connection with a $300 million leveraged buyout of its stockholders by a private equity fund.
