McDermott Will & Emery LLP‘s private equity team maintains a strong focus on the life sciences and pharma sectors, acting on a broad range of growth capital investments, buyouts, exits, recapitalizations, and add-on deals. The team’s workload, which spans middle-market and bulge-bracket transactions, also encompasses a growing number of deals in sectors such as aviation, logistics, and tech, owing in part to the broad expertise of New York-based M&A expert Frank Steinherr, who handles a large volume of complex leveraged buyouts, mergers, and take-private transactions. Steinherr co-leads the team with Chicago-based lawyers Kristian Werling, who focuses on healthcare transactions, and Gregory Metz, who handles a diverse array of LBOs and restructurings, as well as with Miami-based lawyer Frederic Levenson. Further key contacts include Brooks Gruemmer, who practices from Chicago, and Miami lawyer Harris Siskind, who maintains close relationships with clients such as H.I.G. and is also highly recommended.
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Client satisfaction

Key clients

  • AUA Private Equity Partners
  • Amulet Capital Partners
  • Argo Infrastructure Partners
  • Avesi Partners
  • Bain Capital
  • BayPine
  • Blue Sea Capital
  • Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
  • Capitol Meridian Partners
  • CenterGate Capital LP

Work highlights

  • Advised H.I.G. Capital on multiple deals, including on the sale of its portfolio company Lipari Foods to an affiliate of Littlejohn & Co. and on its portfolio company American Vision Partners’ acquisition of West Texas Eye Associates.
  • Advised OMERS Private Equity and Forefront Dermatology on its sale of an interest in Forefront Dermatology to Partners Group.
  • Advised Gemspring Capital Management on its portfolio company Zavation Medical Products’ acquisition of CoreLink Enterprises.

Lawyers

Leading partners

The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Practice head

Frank Steinherr; Kristian Werling; Gregory Metz; Frederic Levenson

Other key lawyers

Kevin Sullivan; Brooks Gruemmer; Harris Siskind