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Dee represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a broad range of corporate transactions across an array of industries. She works with clients on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, divestitures, carve-outs, club deals, minority investments, take-privates, reorganizations and cross-border transactions. Dee’s practice also includes advising clients on corporate governance and general corporate matters.
Clients rely on Dee for her technical skills, substantive knowledge and commercial instincts.
Experience
- Represented New Mountain Capital and its portfolio companies in a number of transactions, including:
- Acquisition of Real Chemistry (healthcare marketing and advertising business) and its subsequent add-ons of 21Grams, Greater Than One and Spring & Bond.
- Acquisition of Swoop (AI-focused healthcare agency) and its subsequent add-on acquisitions of ConversationHealth, TI Health and MyHealthTeam.
- Real Chemistry and Swoop, in Swoop’s spinoff from Real Chemistry and in their subsequent acquisition by a $3.1 billion continuation fund vehicle raised by New Mountain which is one of the largest single-asset continuation vehicles to date.
- Growth Investment in Office Ally, a healthcare technology company offering cloud-based solutions, including an EHR system, practice management software, a clearinghouse for claims and eligibility, and revenue cycle management tools, alongside Francisco Partners.
- Acquisition of Radancy, a provider of enterprise software and services solutions for end-to-end talent sourcing, and its subsequent add-on acquisitions of Ascendify (a provider of CRM-based recruiter tools) and Brazen Technologies (a provider of hiring event technology).
- Majority investment in ALKU, a specialized contingent staffing and consulting firm, focused on providing highly skilled individuals within areas of life sciences, cloud technology, healthcare IT, data science, and cybersecurity.
- Acquisition of Bounteous, an insights-driven digital experience consultancy.
- Sale of Convey Health Solutions to TPG Capital and Convey’s prior add-on acquisitions of Healthscape and Pareto.
- Represented EQT and its affiliated funds in a number of transactions, including:
- EQT Private Equity alongside CPP Investments in their acquisition of Neogov, a human capital management and public safety solutions provider, from Warburg Pincus and Carlyle.
- EQT Private Equity in its acquisition of Avetta, a global provider of supply chain risk management software, from Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.
- EQT Private Capital Asia on its agreement to acquire PropertyGuru Group Limited from its public shareholders in a take-private transaction.
- Represented Advent International and its portfolio companies in a number of transactions, including:
- Acquisition of AccentCare, one of the largest home health and personal care platforms in the United States, from Oak Hill Capital Partners, and its subsequent add-on acquisition of Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care.
- Acquisition of a majority stake in Aimbridge Hospitality, one of the largest third-party hotel operators, from Lee Equity Partners and General Atlantic and subsequent add-on acquisition of Prism Hotels & Resort.
- Represented TA Associates in its acquisition of Momentive Software (the former Association & Events and Nonprofit Solutions divisions of Community Brands).
- Represented Charlesbank Capital Partners in its investment in Ivanti, a provider of automated IT and security operations solutions, alongside Ivanti’s existing investors, Clearlake Capital Group and TA Associates.
- Represented Summa Equity in its acquisition of G-CON Manufacturing, a maker of prefabricated cleanrooms used by the pharmaceutical industry.
- Represented Partners Group in its acquisition of Careismatic Brands, a healthcare apparel company, from New Mountain Capital.
- Represented Hearthside Food Solutions, a portfolio company of Partners Group and Charlesbank Capital Partners, in its acquisition of the bakery business of Weston Foods and sale of VSI (European bar manufacturing business) to EMPWR.
- Represented Park Place Technologies, a portfolio company of Charlesbank and GTCR, in its acquisition of Curvature, a global leader in independent, multi-vendor support and pre-owned network and data center equipment, from Partners Group.
- Represented Harvest Partners in its acquisition of Yellowstone Landscape, a provider of commercial landscaping services.
- Represented Avista Capital Partners in its acquisition of GCM Holding Corporation, an outsourced manufacturer of high-precision components and assemblies primarily for the medtech industry and other select diversified industrial end markets.
- Represented Weld North Education, a portfolio company of Silver Lake and a leading digital education technology company focused on developing digital curriculum and tools for preK-12th grade, in its acquisition of Glynlyon.
- Represented Long Point Capital in its sale of CHA Consulting, a provider of design, engineering and consulting services, to First Reserve.