
Direct Investing (M&A)
The "Go To" for Middle-Market Transactions
We represent private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, and companies looking to sell to private equity funds in buyout transactions and offer our clients best-in-class legal advice grounded in the commercial realities of the target’s business.
Our particular focus on founder-run businesses and the Health Care, Energy Transition, and Telecom sectors allow us to flex upmarket into large cap deals when called upon by our clients. Additionally, our full-service Toronto office positions us to advise our clients on all sizes of cross-border and Canadian transactions.
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Middle market transactions are our sweet spot
Areas of Focus
Our Approach
Our team handles both domestic and cross-border transactions, ranging from simple acquisitions to those involving complex capital structures, multiple levels of debt, rollover, co-investment, and preferred stock.
We draw on two complementary strengths: solid technical knowledge and a vision for the commercial realities that matter most for our clients. We build high-touch but efficient client service teams led by transactional attorneys with deep experience in private equity transactions – complimented by a full suite of subject matter specialists when merited.
Commercial Lawyering
- We ground our technical advice in the commercial realities of every deal, deploying sophisticated judgement to key decision and inflection points.
Relationship Driven
- We appreciate that successful sponsors and their transactions are built on deep and meaningful relationships – between sponsors and their targets and sponsors and their advisors. We pride ourselves on being an extension of our clients, forging decades long relationships with private equity principals and playing a central role in their target and portfolio company relationships.
Focus on Family
- We often engage with closely-held and family-owned businesses either as their counsel or opposite them, and understand the risk tolerances and relationship nuances that are unique to deals involving founder / family-run businesses.
Post Closing Services
- Our work doesn’t stop when the deal closes. We continue to work with our sponsor clients and their portfolio companies on every aspect of their needs, including managing transitions, post-closing integration, dispute resolution, employment matters and all aspects of the portfolio company’s growth.
Full Service
- Corporate transactions
- Financings
- Tax structuring and advice
- Debt financing
- Fund formation / regulatory issues
- Intellectual property
- Employment, labor, and benefits counseling
- Management arrangements
- Government relations
- Risk management
- Dispute avoidance and resolution
Meet Mintz
Our team leaders have decades of experience in domestic and cross-border transactions.
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