Private Equity
Full-Service Practice
Our team of attorneys provides clients with high-touch and tailored advice on their most important business transactions, grounded in commercial realities and backed by industry-leading best practices. We build our teams with a focus on our clients and their specific objectives, covering every aspect of the private equity market, including fundraising and investment fund formation, direct investments, portfolio company management and acquisitions, and platform exits. Our clients include global commingled funds, independent sponsors, and family offices.
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Case Study
Mintz served as legal counsel to Invited, Inc. in its sale of certain assets related to its BigShots Golf business to Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp.
Case Study
Mintz advised acute health care services and specialty hospital company Kindred Healthcare and private equity firm TPG Capital in the sale of Kindred Healthcare to LifePoint Health, a national hospital and health care services provider. The combined company, ScionHealth, operates 79 hospital campuses in 25 states.
Areas of Focus
Our Approach
Our full-service practice supports all of the needs of sponsors and those engaging in transactions with financial buyers:
Investment Funds
- Our Funds Practice specializes in guiding general partners through the legal, tax and regulatory intricacies of establishing and structuring investment funds to maximize their potential for success.
- Our team excels in representing institutional investors in primary fund investments and direct co-investments, offering expert legal counsel to limited partners seeking to navigate complex investment opportunities and secure their positions within various funds.
- Leveraging our market knowledge, we assist clients in the management of continuation funds, ensuring a smooth transition when extending the life of an existing fund.
- When it comes to executing LP secondary transactions, our team is skilled at providing legal support and strategic guidance to clients seeking to divest their interests in investment funds as well as efficiently managing the transfer process for buy-side transactions.
- We are well-versed in the world of GP-led secondaries, helping investors and fund managers navigate the complexities of the secondary market, whether for buying or selling fund interests, and facilitating smooth transactions.
Direct Investing
- We represent both sponsors and sellers in platform and add-on acquisitions, providing sophisticated legal advice grounded in the commercial realities of our clients.
- Our core focus is the middle market, with our industry and regulatory experience often pushing us up-market in the Energy & Sustainability, Health Care, Life Sciences, and Telecommunications sectors.
Portfolio Companies
- Our Portfolio Company Practice is intentional, and focused on meeting the legal and business needs of private equity-backed companies.
- We blend industry-leading employment, litigation, intellectual property, and regulatory experience with a sophisticated understanding of private equity structures and factors affecting portfolio companies.
Growth Equity
- A sophisticated mix of our private equity and venture capital practices, our growth equity practice services financial sponsors as they engage in late-stage minority investments in profitable businesses.
Executive Representation
- We routinely represent Chief Executive Officers and the management teams of target companies being purchased by financial sponsors. Our representation includes the negotiation and documentation of managements’ rollover investments, rights as a minority shareholder, the terms of subsequent equity incentive grants and employment agreements.
Lending
- Represent private equity and venture capital firms and alternative lenders — as well as public and private companies across industries — in complex, multitranche, and conventional debt transactions of all sizes.
Litigation
- Nationally recognized as a “litigation powerhouse” with strong capabilities in bet-the-company commercial disputes, high-profile investigations, white-collar crime, securities litigation, and sophisticated employment disputes, with a particular focus on representing sponsors and their portfolio companies.
Government Services and Lobbying
- ML Strategies, our bipartisan government relations firm, leverages a wealth of political and business experience at the federal and state levels to create winning solutions for sponsors and their portfolio companies in areas including legislative, executive, regulatory, and municipal lobbying.
Restructuring
- Not all investments work out, and when they don’t, our restructuring team steps in to advise sponsors on restructuring their portfolios, workouts, and shedding non-core assets.
Cross-Border Capabilities
- We have built the most integrated cross-border team among North American law firms to provide seamless service on transactions involving US and Canadian businesses and investors.