Private Equity | McCarter & English, LLP

We help private equity investors implement value-added techniques at the initial funding stage, service ongoing portfolio company investments, and structure innovative exit strategies. In addition to providing counsel for the legal issues implicated in private equity transactions, we structure innovative, tax-advantaged solutions for our clients.

Our lawyers have distinctive experience in numerous industries, with a particular focus on representing strategic and institutional investors that invest in middle market transactions. In addition to private equity funds, we represent mezzanine funds; business development companies; insurance companies; clubs; and high net worth family partnerships.

Our experience includes:

Buyouts
Fund formation
Leveraged acquisitions and restructurings
Portfolio company transactions
Public offerings and private placements
Recapitalizations
Secondary transactions
Senior and mezzanine financings

We also advise small business investment companies (SBICs) and have assisted the Small Business Administration (SBA) in the drafting of many of its form documents, including the model partnership agreement currently being used for new applicants.

Represented a private equity investment firm, and its affiliates, in a $1.5 million follow-on investment through convertible notes in Applied Biological Laboratories, Inc., a New York-based biotechnology company that develops, manufactures, and distributes scientifically-validated natural products used in the treatment of common respiratory illnesses like influenza, coronavirus and asthma.

Represented a private equity firm, and its affiliates, in the $4 million convertible note financing to Applied Biological Laboratories, Inc., a New York-based biotechnology company that develops, manufactures, and distributes scientifically validated natural products designed to strengthen the body’s defenses and be effective drugs for common respiratory illnesses like influenza, coronavirus and asthma.

Represented Boston-based private equity firm Fort Point Capital regarding transportation and regulatory issues in its acquisition of Northern California-based logistics services provider Yandell Truckaway and its affiliates YES! Logistics and SC Warehouses.

Represented a developer and provider of specialized conference spaces and integrated services for off-site professional meetings, in connection with the issuance of senior secured notes to private equity funds that invest in debt and equity in lower middle market companies.

Represented a state pension plan in connection with its limited partnership investments in multiple private equity firms.

Represented a multi-million-dollar private equity firm that invests in mezzanine debt and equity in lower middle market businesses across the United States. We assisted in its investment in an industrial safety supply distributor selling personal protective equipment ranging from hard hats and fall protection to gas detection equipment and hazardous material handling gear.