DLA Piper LLP (US)’s private equity team provides comprehensive legal support on buyouts, exits, and portfolio company transactions, leveraging its extensive global platform to advise on complex, multijurisdictional deals. Team head Joseph Silver operates out of Atlanta and is a highly active mid-market advisor who assists clients with acquisitions, strategic investments, growth equity funding rounds, and disposals. New York's James Kelly is experienced across all manner of private equity deals, handling initial investments through to restructurings and exits for a variety of major financial sponsor clients. Chicago's Harris Eisenberg’s sector-specific experience includes professional services, tech and healthcare deals. Advising from Reston, Eric Grossman’s broad practice encompasses leveraged buyouts, growth equity and venture capital investments, restructurings and joint ventures. Atlanta's Daniel Rollman, whose recent highlights includes substantial disposals, also comes recommended.
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Key clients
- 5th Century Partners
- Accel-KKR
- Bregal Investments, Inc.
- Columbia Capital, LLC
- Frontenac Company, LLC
- Grove Mountain Partners
- ICV Partners, LLC
- Morgan Stanley Capital Partners
- MSouth Equity Partners LP
- Shore Capital Partners, LLC
Work highlights
- Advised CData in receiving approximately US$350 million in growth capital from Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth investor, with participation from Accel, an American venture capital firm.
- Represented Frontenac, a Chicago-based private equity firm, in connection with its $192.2million sale of Motion Solutions, a designer and manufacturer of motion control systems intended for industrial customers in the genomics, life sciences, semiconductor, robotics and industrial automation sectors to Novanta.
- Represented Qatar Sports Investments, a strategic, long-term, private investment vehicle targeting established and early-stage sports assets, in connection with its landmark strategic partnership and investment deal with Arctos Sports Partners in which Arctos will acquire a minority equity stake in Paris Saint-Germain.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Practice head
Joseph Silver
Other key lawyers
James Kelly; Harris Eisenberg; Eric Grossman; Daniel Rollman