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Chris has more than 30 years of experience in private equity and mergers and acquisitions. Chris assists clients with private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), growth equity financings, and management incentive structuring, as well as general corporate law. He represents middle and lower-middle market private equity funds and their portfolio companies in buyout transactions, add-on acquisitions, divestitures, and general corporate matters. Chris represents portfolio companies, private equity investment funds, hedge funds, family offices, fundless sponsors, management teams, and institutional investors. Chris has worked with nearly 100 fund portfolio companies, serving as outside counsel and guiding them in corporate governance, M&A, divestitures, equity and debt financings, restructurings, stockholder agreements, LLC agreements, commercial contracts, executive compensation and employment arrangements, joint ventures, and recapitalizations. In his guidance of private equity, family offices and other investment funds, Chris advises in such areas as leveraged buyouts, rollups and buildups, equity financings, divestitures, reorganizations, industry consolidations, and related formation documents. He has been engaged in more than 400 M&As of private companies and has been engaged by more than 40 clients to conduct rollup transactions, primarily in business services, software, IT, and industrial transactions. Chris’ high level of deal activity includes cross-border transactions and occurs across a range of industries, such as business services, healthcare services, consumer products, technology, software, energy, government contracting, manufacturing, and logistics.
