Private Equity and Venture Capital

Freeborn provides sound transaction structure and counsel on a wide array of deals, typically ranging from $20-500 million. In addition, our attorneys have vast experience working side-by-side with private equity professionals and their portfolio management teams on day-to-day operations—as outside general counsel—to implement growth strategies and achieve profitable exits. Clients include private equity and venture capital firms,  buyers, sellers, target companies and management teams. 

Freeborn’s PE team has decades of experience assisting PE firms with platform acquisitions, add-ons, representation of portfolio companies, and exit transactions. Not only have we worked with them on hundreds of M&A transactions, our attorneys have vast experience working side-by-side with private equity professionals and their portfolio company’s management teams on day-to-day operations—as outside general counsel—to implement growth strategies and achieve profitable exits. These strategies range from internal growth, to roll-ups, to replacing management teams, to aggressive litigation against industry players who were competing unfairly. Our counsel has earned Freeborn the reputation as a trusted partner and advisor in many situations: 

  • Acquisitions of platform companies or add-ons
  • Joint ventures
  • Venture capital investments in start-ups and high-growth companies
  • Divestitures
  • Recapitalizations
  • Fund formation
  • Fund-to-fund investments
  • Minority investments

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  • Represented a Chicago-based private equity firm in connection with its financing and acquisition of a leading American precious metal dealer.

  • Represented multiple management groups involved in sales of portfolio companies from one private equity firm to another private equity firm, including sales of a leading supplier of mobile storage solutions, a manufacturer of snack products, a manufacturer of coatings for the printing industry and a provider of boiler room products and systems.

  • Sale of a manufacturer of high-performance automotive parts to a private equity firm.

  • Sale of a minority interest in a franchisor of fresh fruit bouquet retail stores to a private equity fund.

  • Represented a private equity fund in the sale of a leading provider of vehicle service contracts.

  • Sale of a Midwest-based specialty chemical business to a private equity fund.

  • Represented a Chicago-based private equity firm in connection with the financing and platform acquisition of a leading provider of outsourced electronics repair service programs.

  • Sale of the largest online tie and clothing accessories company to a private equity firm.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the acquisition of the assets of an armored car company out of bankruptcy.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the capital investment in a hospital/medical facilities company.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the proposed acquisition of a national insurance surety company.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the proposed acquisition of a movie theater company.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the acquisition of an entertainment production company.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the capital investment in a glass manufacturing company.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the proposed capital investment in an insurance brokerage company.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the capital investment in a medical care provider company.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the proposed acquisition of a national insurance casualty company.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the acquisition of a national insurance claims company.

  • Representation of a private equity firm in the proposed capital investment in a regional insurance agency company.

  • Represented a national fast-casual restaurant franchise in the sale of a minority interest to a San Francisco-based private equity firm.

  • Represented a private equity firm in the sale of an ancillary vehicle protection products and services company to a private equity firm. 

  • Sale of a landfill products and equipment supply company to a private equity firm.

  • Represent real estate fund in the acquisition of $57,800,000 commercial office complex in Norfolk, Virginia.

  • Represented a solar energy sponsor in a joint venture involving both equity and debt investments in excess of $200 million from several institutional investors.

  • Represented private equity and venture capital investment professionals in their admission to, and separation from, private equity and venture capital firms.

  • Represented several "fundless" venture capital firms in the formation of multiple investment vehicles to make early stage investments in technology companies.