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Brandon Winer is an associate in the firm’s private equity group. He focuses his practice on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in their most complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, cross-border transactions, minority investments, recapitalization transactions, liquidity events and corporate governance across a broad range of industries, including healthcare, software and technology, digital infrastructure and consumer products and services.
During law school, Brandon served as editor-in-chief of the Boston University Law Review and competed on the Boston University School of Law’s mock trial team. Before attending law school, Brandon worked as a paralegal in the non-capital habeas corpus unit of the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Nevada.
Experience
- Represented Berkshire Partners and its portfolio companies in a number of transactions, including:
- Investment in Triumvirate Environmental, a leading provider of environmental services.
- Investment in Vital Care, a leading franchisor of infusion therapy pharmacies.
- Investment in PDQ, a leading provider of information technology asset management software.
- Investment in Tango Analytics, a leader in store lifecycle management and integrated workplace management system software, and Tango Analytics’ acquisitions of AgilQuest, a leader in flexible and hybrid workplace scheduling, and WatchWire, a sustainability and energy management software-as-a-service (EMSaaS) provider.
- Investment in Point Broadband, a provider of high speed fiber-to-the-premise internet services to residential and business customers in select small town and rural markets in the United States.
- Investment in Thompson Safety, a full-service safety company.
- Investment in AHEAD, a leading provider of cloud services.
- Sale of Masergy, a pioneer in software-defined networking (SDN) and cloud platforms for global enterprises.
- Sale of Affordable Care, the country’s largest dental services organization specializing in tooth replacement.
- Investment in Comlinkdata, a leading data and analytics provider to the global telecom industry, and Comlinkdata’s acquisition of Opensignal, an independent global standard in mobile network experience analysis.
- Acquisitions of the records and information management business of EDM Americas and Triyam, a rapidly-growing software business that provides expert data management solutions for healthcare organizations, by Access Information Management, the world’s largest privately-held records and information management services provider and a portfolio company of Berkshire Partners and GI Partners.
- Represented Advent International and its portfolio companies in a number of transactions, including:
- Sale of Grupo CRM, a premium chocolate player in Brazil, to Nestlé.
- Investment in Tredence, a data science and AI engineering company.
- Acquisitions of BrightWave Marketing, a leading email and eCRM company, and the digital marketing business of CDK Global now rebranded as Sincro, an Ansira Company, by Ansira Partners, a global marketing services and solutions company and portfolio company of Advent International, and in its sale to Truelink Capital.
- Represented Charlesbank Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in a number of transactions, including:
- Acquisition of The Packaging Wholesalers, a nationwide packaging distributor, by BOX Partners, a wholesaler of packaging, shipping, and industrial supplies and portfolio company of Charlesbank Capital Partners.
- Investment in Empire Today, the largest shop-at-home, direct-to-consumer flooring company in the United States.
- Acquisition of Berg Companies, a manufacturer of hard and soft wall shelter systems, fuel and water systems and power management solutions, by HDT Global, a provider of solutions aimed at creating and controlling environmental conditions to protect equipment and personnel and portfolio company of Charlesbank Capital Partners, and in its sale to Nexus Capital Management.
- Represented GI Partners and its portfolio companies in a number of transactions, including:
- Acquisition of the public certificate business of Entrust by Sectigo, a global leader in digital certificates and automated Certificate Lifecycle Management and portfolio company of GI Partners.
- Strategic investment from Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners in Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions and portfolio company of GI Partners.
- Investment in Rectangle Health, a leading provider of healthcare financial technology and patient engagement solutions.
- Represented BlueCat Networks, a leading provider of mission-critical network infrastructure management, automation, and security solutions and portfolio company of Audax Group, in its acquisition of LiveAction, a global provider of network observability and intelligence solutions.
- Represented Silversmith Capital Partners in its sale of MediQuant, a leader in cloud-based data archiving and interoperability solutions for hospitals and health systems.
- Represented Haveli Investments in its acquisition of ZeroFox Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of external cybersecurity.
- Represented Audax Group in its acquisition of Mosaic Dental Collective, a leading dental services organization (DSO) supporting affiliated dental offices in California and Washington.
- Represented Cinven in its acquisition of Drake Software, a leading provider of professional tax preparation software, and Drake Software’s acquisition of TaxAct, a leading provider of digital, do-it-yourself tax filing assistance software and services.
- Represented Providence Equity Partners in its sale of Vistage Worldwide, the world's largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses.
- Represented Prospect Hill Growth Partners in its acquisition of MOTIS Brands, a vertically integrated e-commerce leader in the loading, hauling, mobility, automotive and recreational segments.
- Represented Summit Partners in its sale of Abode Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading providers of home health and hospice services.
- Represented Cove Hill Partners in its sale of Storable, a leading provider of software, payments, insurance and marketplace solutions to the self-storage industry in the U.S., to EQT.
- Represented WellSky Corporation, a global health and community care technology company and portfolio company of TPG Capital, in its acquisition of ClearCare, a leading software-as-a-service provider used by home care companies, and in its definitive agreement to add Leonard Green & Partners as a new capital partner.