McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Client SatisfactionMcDermott 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 corporate experts Kevin Sullivan, who is based in Boston, and Brooks Gruemmer, who practices from Chicago. Miami lawyer Harris Siskind maintains close relationships with clients such as H.I.G. and is also highly recommended.
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
- CenterGate Capital, LP
- Comvest Partners
- Gauge Capital
- Gemspring Capital Management, LLC
- Golub Capital
- Great Mountain Partners
- H.I.G. Capital.
- Hidden Harbor Capital Partners
- Iron Path Capital
- JLL Partners & SV Health Investors
- Kingswood Capital Management
- Lee Equity
- Lindsay Goldberg
- Lorient Capital
- Main Capital Partners
- Martis Capital
- Nautic Partners, LLC
- New Harbor Capital
- NexPhase Capital Partners
- OMERS Private Equity and Forefront Dermatology
- OnCap
- Pacific Avenue Capital Partners
- Pritzker Private Capital
- Revelstoke Capital Partners
- Select Equity Group
- Shore Capital Partners
- Silver Lake Psychology
- Solum Partners
- Staple Street Capital
- The Sterling Group
- United Services Automobile Association
- Vesey Street Capital Partners
- Wellspring Capital Management
- WindRose Health Investors Company Group
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
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Frank Steinherr, Kristian Werling, Gregory Metz, Frederic Levenson