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McDermott Will & Emery LLP

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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 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.

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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.

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Kevin Sullivan

Kevin Sullivan

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Kevin J. Sullivan focuses his practice on representing private equity sponsors and other investment funds, private and public companies, and family offices in a wide variety of transactional matters. He has a broad range of experience negotiating and closing leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, carve-outs and growth equity investments in the United States and abroad. Kevin represents private equity investors and their portfolio companies on key transactions across a variety of industries, including media, software/technology, sports and entertainment, professional services, and consumer goods and retail. He also has significant experience counseling founder-owned companies on general corporate matters and liquidity transactions.   Kevin has more than 25 years of experience representing leading private equity firms, including Apax Digital Fund, CVC Growth, Francisco Partners, GSV, Guidepost Growth Equity, Providence Equity Partners, PSG Equity, Susquehanna Growth Equity, TA Associates, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Thompson Street Capital and TCV. He has also represented a variety of corporate clients, such as Ascend Learning, Blackboard, EverCommerce, CAC Specialty, Learfield Sports, Ministry Brands, Paycor, Signode and World Endurance Holdings (Ironman Triathlon). Recognized for the quality of his counsel and commercial approach, Kevin has been ranked as a leading practitioner by Chambers USA, IFLR1000, The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 US and numerous other legal ratings agencies and publications.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Frank Steinherr, Kristian Werling, Gregory Metz, Frederic Levenson

Other key lawyers

Kevin Sullivan, Brooks Gruemmer, Harris Siskind