North America - United States • M&A/corporate and commercial
Leading middle-market private equity funds such as The Jordan Company, Wind Point, and Vistria retain longstanding relationships with the team at Winston & Strawn LLP, which has a penchant for handling leveraged buyouts and growth investments in sectors such as software, food, healthcare, and defense. Integrated antitrust, real estate, tax, and IP expertise further allows the team to guide funds through the entire transactional lifecycle and handle a diverse range of portfolio company-related matters, including cross-border mergers, add-on acquisitions, and take-private deals. The team is active across the country and is jointly led by New York-based public and private M&A and corporate governance expert Brad Vaiana, Dallas lawyer Matthew Stockstill, who focuses on cross-border PE acquisitions and exits alongside fund formation matters, and transactional and debt finance specialist Eva Davis, who practices from Los Angeles. Further key contacts include private equity and capital markets expert Matthew Bergmann in Chicago and de-SPAC specialist Dom DeChiara in New York.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
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‘Superb ability to problem solve and create out-of-the-box solutions to complex issues. The team is communicative, deadlines are adhered to, and little to no follow up is ever needed. All around, this team makes doing deals so much more enjoyable by taking the best care and attention to us.’
‘This team is one of the best M&A deal teams that I've ever worked with and goes above and beyond in terms of client service - always meeting deadlines; creating and executing upon novel solutions to novel and complex issues; advising and counseling us instead of just doing what they are told; they truly feel like an extension of our internal team.’
'The team has a breadth of experience and works to factor in our unique hot button issues when integrating their best practices.'
'Eva Davis, Brendan Mace, and Bryan Ikegami excel in client management and business judgment.'
Leading partners
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https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/vaiana-bradley-c.html#full-bio Brad Vaiana has extensive experience advising financial sponsors, alternative asset managers, family offices, and private companies in connection with a wide range of strategic transactions and corporate matters. As co-chair of Winston’s Private Equity Practice, Brad leads one of the broadest and most active middle-market private equity groups in the U.S.
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Brad Vaiana, Matthew Stockstill, Eva Davis