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Mintz Counsels Feeney Utility Services Group in Sale to Artera

Mintz served as legal counsel to Feeney Utility Services Group (FUSG), a portfolio company of Vancouver-based private equity firm CAI Capital Partners comprised of Feeney Brothers Utility Services (Feeney) and DDS Companies, in its recently completed sale to Artera Services, LLC, a portfolio company of private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and one of the nation's largest providers of integrated infrastructure services to natural gas and electric industries.

Headquartered in Boston, FUSG leverages the resources and strength of their business units Feeney and DDS Companies to be a leading natural gas utility service provider in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

Brendan and Greg Feeney, founders of FUSG, and Sean Donohoe, President of DDS Companies, will continue in their current roles and lead Artera’s operations in the Northeast. Feeney and DDS Companies will remain operating businesses within Artera with primary operations based in Massachusetts and New York.

The Mintz team that advised FUSG was led by Member Marc Mantell and included Member and Chair of the firm’s Closely Held Business Practice and Co-chair of the firm’s Private Equity Practice Kurt Steinkrauss, Members Joseph Price and Roy Gillig, and Associates Scott Dunberg, Katya Daniel and Michael Bill.