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Brooke Szalapski represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and other strategic investments and dispositions. Brooke regularly advises private equity clients on general corporate and governance matters.
Experience
- Represented DIRECTV in an agreement to acquire EchoStar’s video distribution business DISH, including DISH TV and Sling TV, through a debt exchange transaction.
- Represented Aquiline Capital Partners on its acquisition of Health Prime International, a provider of revenue cycle management solutions for physician practices.
- Represented Dunkin’ Brands Group in its sale to Inspire Brands Inc. Dunkin’ the parent company of Dunkin’ and Baskin-Robbins, entered into a transaction valued at $11.3 billion.
- Represented Yasso Holdings, Inc. and Castanea Partners in its sale of Yasso Holdings, Inc. to global consumer goods company, Unilever.
- Represented H.I.G. Capital in its $950 million carve-out acquisition of the distribution business of Avient Corporation and creation of Formerra, a preeminent distributor of engineered materials (named a 2023 Middle-Market Deal of the Year winner by Mergers & Acquisitions).
- Represented Lee Equity Partners in its acquisition of PCS Retirement, a leading retirement plan recordkeeper focused on ERISA and Non-ERISA markets.
- Represented Audax Private Equity on its investment in Integrate.com, Inc., a leader in B2B Precision Demand Marketing.
- Represented TPG Capital and Nintex on Nintex’s acquisition of Skuid, Inc., a low-code cloud platform that allows for the rapid design and development of business applications.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its sale of Masergy, a pioneer in software-defined networking (SDN) and cloud platforms for global enterprises.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its sale of Affordable Care, the country’s largest dental services organization specializing in tooth replacement.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its acquisition of Tango Analytics , a leading provider of cloud-based store lifecycle management and integrated workplace management software.
- Represented Prospect Hill Growth Partners in its acquisition of Lifestyle Solutions , a furniture design and manufacturing company.
- Represented Prospect Hill Growth Partners and its portfolio company, Walker Edison Furniture Company, in connection with the sale of a significant minority investment in Walker Edison by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities.
- Represented Audax Private Equity in its acquisition of StatLab Medical Products, a developer and manufacturer of diagnostic supplies for the anatomic pathology laboratory industry.
- Represented Cove Hill Partners in the acquisitions of Ungerboeck Systems International and EventBooking.com, two leading software providers of event and venue.
- Represented Kohlberg & Co. in its acquisition of a majority stake in GPRS Holdings LLC, which pioneered the use of ground penetrating radar technology for identifying subsurface structures as part of maintenance, repair and remodeling work on existing infrastructure.
- Represented TPG Capital and its portfolio company, WellSky Corp., in its acquisition of CarePort Health, the provider of CarePort solutions which assist hundreds of hospitals and thousands of post-acute care providers to efficiently coordinate and transition patients through different settings of care.