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.

Advised a private equity fund in connection with a $1.25 million asset-backed loan to a publicly traded company.

Advised a private equity fund in connection with a $6.25 Million debt financing of a privately-held beverage manufacturer.

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.

Advised a private equity fund in connection with a $4.5 million debt financing of a privately-held fast food chain.

Advised a private equity fund on its $3.0 million investment in a privately-held manufacturer of exercise equipment.

Advised a private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of a minority stake in a publicly traded snack food company.

Advised a private equity fund on its investment in a publicly-traded nutritional supplements company.

Advised a private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of debt and equity securities issued by a publicly traded media company.

Advised a private equity fund in connection with a $3 million debt financing and concurrent recapitalization and restructuring of a privately held international retail company.

Advised a private real estate investment fund in connection with the formation of two new funds.

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.

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