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Co-Chair, Corporate Practice Group
Career
Jonathan Awner serves as Co-Chair of Akerman’s Corporate Practice Group. He advises clients in transactions in automotive retail, aviation, distribution, hospitality, logistics, manufacturing, services, technology, and other industries.
Jonathan focuses on middle-market domestic mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, public and private securities transactions, and corporate governance matters.
Jonathan counsels in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, recapitalizations, joint ventures, private equity investments, and other business transactions. He has extensive experience representing strategic and financial buyers and investors, as well as corporate, individual and family sellers.
Jonathan also represents public companies in public offerings of equity and debt securities, and securities law compliance matters. He has served as lead counsel to issuers in numerous underwritten offerings, including a $1.5 billion IPO. He also advises companies and investor groups in private placements of equity and debt securities, growth equity investments and joint ventures.
Jonathan is a trusted advisor to boards of directors, audit and special board committees, and senior executives of public companies on corporate governance issues, management succession, relations with institutional and activist investors, compensation practices for directors and officers, conflict of interest matters, and change-of-control transactions. His committee representations include leading investigations of alleged management misconduct, whistleblower complaints, stock option backdating, accounting irregularities, auditor resignations, violations of securities laws including insider trading, and responding to shareholder activists alleging poor operating performance or excessive compensation.
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Testimonials
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- ‘The team is very user friendly. Lawyers see the big picture. Andrew Hard is efficient, experienced and pragmatic.’ ‘Very personal service. Can always reach the key leaders within the practice and everyone is very responsive. High quality and efficient. Pricing is also very good. They turn documents quickly and accurately. Overall, we're very happy.’ ‘Our trusted business partner. It works with us on multiple deals so knows how we operate, which makes communication seamless. David Birke and Sergey Kotelnikov are both good ones.’
Key clients
- AutoNation HEICO Ferguson Enterprises Comvest Partners Trivest Partners H.I.G. Capital Ondas Holdings New Water Capital The Beekman Group Titan Home Improvement Warren Equity Partners Stone Point Capital Branford Castle Partners MBF Healthcare Partners AE Industrial Partners Shoreline Equity Partners MPE Partners TZP Group Boyne Capital JM Family Enterprises Supply Chain Equity Partners 3i North American Infrastructure Partners Graycliff Partners