With a long history of representing privately held companies—both as outside general counsel and when they decide to sell—we have substantial experience working with private equity firms on both sides of the table.
Our strength is in mid-market transactions focused around industries where we have particular depth and experience, including financial services, media, communications, energy, health care, food processing, and maritime.
We are equally comfortable representing the buyer or seller, and our experience with each enables us to provide valuable perspective when representing the other. This insight brings parties together and gets deals done quickly and efficiently. Our goal is to create strong, lasting relationships with our clients, and to facilitate those relationships among the parties to a transaction.
We offer clients a strong M&A team backed by experienced lawyers to handle the range of transactional issues, including tax, finance, executive compensation, option plans, ERISA, environmental, intellectual property, bankruptcy, and estate planning. We help clients with acquisitions, follow-on investments, and restructurings. We also represent private equity portfolio clients in their ongoing operational and strategic needs.
Selected Experience
Private equity financing for Cascade Bancorp
Represented client in $177 million private equity financing and repurchase of trust preferred securities. (2011)
Private equity investments for Gormally Broadcasting, LLC
Initial equity contributions by common and preferred investors to refinance company debt. (2010)
Acquisition of business for GenNx360
Represented private equity firm GenNx360 Capital Partners in its acquisition of Clariant Corp.'s specialty silicones business. (2009)
Acquisition of business for Endeavour Capital
Acquisition of Little Red Services, Inc., an Alaska oil services provider. (2008)
Acquisition of stock for Winona Capital
Acquisition of Barter Optical and Dragon Optical. (2008)
Sale of business for National Frozen Foods
Sale of 95-year-old family-owned Washington agricultural foods processor to a private equity group, Endeavour Capital. (2008)
Sale of business for Giddens Industries, Inc.
Sale of aerospace parts and subassemblies manufacturer to Platte River Ventures, a Colorado-based private equity investment firm. (2008)
Private equity investment for Clearwire Corporation
Representation of Clearwire in raising over $1 billion in a private equity investment with Intel Capital and Motorola. (2006)
Securities transaction for technology manufacturer
Company counsel to technology manufacturer in $60 million sale of Series C preferred stock to private equity firm and simultaneous redemption of Series A and Series B preferred stock held by venture capital funds. (2006)
Acquisition of business for Orca Bay Partners
$25 million acquisition of 1838 Investment Advisors and other private equity investments. (2004)
Development - renewable for Newberry Geothermal
Representing project developer in the development and sale of power from a 120 MW geothermal project located near Bend, Ore. (Ongoing)
Merger of health providers for Sound Inpatient Physicians
Represented physician practice management company with a private equity-financed health care management company.
Private equity investments for private investment company
Investment consisting of a controlling preferred interest in a commercial finance company; concurrently with the equity investment the company is entering into bank financing to finance a portion of the acquisition as well as working capital requirements.
Structured and private equity investments for Vulcan Inc.*
Represented Vulcan Inc. in a variety of structured and private equity investments.
Private equity sale for Platinum Equity*
Represented Platinum Equity in the sale of Wireless Facilities, Inc., a company offering design, deployment, and optimization services to the telecommunications industry.
Private equity acquisition for Platinum Equity*
Represented Platinum Equity in its acquisition of the wireless deployment business of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS).
Private equity sale for The DIRECTV Group, Inc.*
Represented The DIRECTV Group in the $4.1 billion sale of PanAmSat Corporation to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
* Denotes experience completed at a prior firm |