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Private Equity & Venture Capital

Since the firm’s founding, our practice has centered on serving the legal needs of private equity firms and venture capital funds. Our very first clients were deeply involved in private capital transactions, and over the years we have developed a nationally recognized practice with an impressive roster of outstanding private equity and growth capital clients. 

We seek to establish long-term relationships with our clients (some of which are well over 20 years), allowing us to deliver the deeply informed and personalized counsel for which we are known. All of our private equity and venture capital clients are assigned a dedicated team of attorneys. The lawyers on these teams build connections that allow us to deliver greater value to our fund clients.  

Our clients are attracted to us, and remain with us for decades, for a variety of reasons, including:

  • Constant senior level attention when needed
  • Outstanding team of attorneys
  • Practical, commercially oriented advice
  • The ability to call on excellent lawyers in supporting practice areas
  • Excellent sense of market terms
  • Efficient and high-quality work product, without over-lawyering
  • Compelling all-in delivered cost for the projects and matters that we handle

As would be expected, in addition to our leading private equity M&A practice, we provide full-service corporate counsel to private equity firms and venture capital funds through a number of complementary practices. As with our M&A practice, all of them combine the sophistication to handle the most complex issues with a practical, business-minded sensibility. We advise private equity firms, venture capital funds, and their respective portfolio companies on:

  • Mergers and acquisitions, from platform acquisition to add-ons to exit transactions
  • Bankruptcies and corporate reorganizations
  • Executive compensation, benefits, and employment issues
  • Corporate governance
  • Tax issues
  • Debt financing
  • Real estate transactions and due diligence
  • Securities and financing transactions
  • Fund formation and capital raising
  • Increasing regulatory oversight of the private equity space
  • Independent sponsors and co-investments
  • Internal investigations
  • Civil litigation

For funds and their portfolio companies, our work continues after an acquisition. We provide day-to-day counsel on a wide variety of corporate and business matters, including:

  • Advice regarding employment and benefits matters
  • Vendor or other commercial agreements
  • Complex equity programs
  • Board meetings and resolutions
  • “One-off” advice to senior executives on a real-time basis so they can get a quick answer and get on with their day

Maintaining the ability to serve as an “outside general counsel” as necessary is consistent with our determination to both understand our clients’ businesses intimately and partner with them as closely as possible.

Representative clients:

  • Brand Velocity Group
  • Gridiron Capital
  • Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners
  • Health Enterprise Partners
  • Heartwood Partners
  • L Catterton
  • PNC Riverarch Capital
  • Oak HC/FT
  • Point72 Ventures
  • Shoreline Equity Partners
  • Southfield Capital
  • Town Hall Ventures
  • Union Capital Associates

Deals

Gryphon Investors' Kano Laboratories Acquires Super Lube and Synco Brands

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South Dakota Trust Co. is Acquired by JTC plc (LSE:"JTC") Read more.

Acquistion of V.T. Mancusi, a provider of customs brokerage and compliance services, by Alba Wheels Up, a portfolio company of Southfield Capital. Read more.

GrayMatter Expands Industrial Intelligence Platform through Strategic Merger with Automation & Control Concepts. Read more.

Acquisition of Cooling & Heating Specialists, a commercial heating and air conditioning contractor by the Kelvin Group, a Southfield Capital portfolio company. Read more.

Heartwood Partners sale of plastic and metal components manufacturer Parkway Products to Clayens NP Group, a portfolio company of One Equity Partners. Read more.

Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners completes sale of Tanknology, a global leader in environmental compliance testing, to D&H United, a portfolio company of Wind Point Partners. Read more.

Represented Shoreline Equity Partners in its Sale of Florida Veg Investments LLC (dba Mr. Greens) to Sterling Investment Partners. Read more.

Represented L Catterton in a growth capital investment in DIBS Beauty, a fast growing color cosmetics brand. Read more.

Represented Gridiron Capital in its Partnership with Esquire Deposition Solutions Read more.

Represented Heartwood Partners in its Sale of CMI Limited Co. to Charger Investment Partners Read more.

Represented L Catterton in $6.3 Million Series Seed Financing of Yummers Read more.

Gridiron Capital Completes Investment in Vistage Worldwide Read more.

Point72 Ventures Leads $15.5 Million Series A Financing Round for Incognia Read more.

Heartwood Partners Sells Majority Interest in Lab Equipment Maker Allentown Read more.

Health Enterprise Partners Leads Series B Funding Round for PatientIQ Read more.

Point72 Hyperscale Acquires Majority Interest in Tsunami Read more.

Oak HC/FT Leads $40 Million Series B Round for Mendel Read more.

Oak HC/FT Leads $82 Million Series C for E-Commerce Logistics Provider 99minutos Read more.

Colibri Group and Consortium Partners Acquire Adtalem Unit for $1 Billion Read more.

Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners Acquires Signal Control Products Read more.

Oak HC/FT Leads $65 Million Funding for Cloud-Based Healthcare Platform Reveleer Read more.

Point72 Ventures Leads $11 Million Seed Financing for Massive Read more.

L Catterton and FB Society Sell Majority Stake in Velvet Taco Read more.

SALI Fund Services Sells to JTC Read more.

L Catterton Growth Funds Leads $20 Million Series A Financing for Merit Read more.

PNC Riverarch Capital Acquires Fresh Direct Produce from HKW Read more.

Shoreline Equity Partners Forms Pavement Partners Read more.

Gridiron Capital Acquires Class Valuation Read more.

Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners Acquires IT Company Zone 4 Read more.

Gridiron Capital Makes Investment in Good Sportsman Marketing Outdoors Read more.

Heartwood Partners Invests in Patten Seed Company, Maker of Super Sod Read more.

FDH IN THE NEWS

Finn Dixon & Herling Elects New Partners and Counsel

Finn Dixon & Herling LLP is pleased to announce that Skawenniio Barnes, Colin McKeon, Tony Miodonka, and Austin Pendleton were elected partners of the Firm. Read more

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Finn Dixon & Herling Elects New Partner

Finn Dixon & Herling LLP is pleased to announce that Jared S. Dinkes was elected partner of the Firm, effective January 1, 2021. Read more