Overview
Trusted Pragmatic Counsel
Vorys represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies in platform acquisitions, portfolio company add-on acquisitions, debt facilities, other financing arrangements, and a broad range of other matters across the United States. Our private equity clients and their portfolio companies have told us that they return to Vorys because of our pragmatic, efficient and engaged counsel. Our lawyers rely on their broad and deep experience to achieve outstanding results for our clients, whether working across the table from the largest law firms in the country or in negotiating smaller acquisitions. Our experience spans transactions ranging from $1 million to over $750 million in enterprise value.
Value and Service
We provide high-touch, responsive, and sophisticated counsel in line with our roots as a client-centered Midwestern firm. Our rate structure and staffing model permit our most experienced partners to be deeply involved in transactions at a price point that is significantly more favorable than many larger law firms. Our private equity experience includes working with private equity firms and portfolio companies to develop standardized processes and documents that drive efficiencies in the acquisition and financing processes and reduce legal transaction expenses.
Comprehensive Services
Our private equity clients and their portfolio companies benefit from our broad range of substantive experience and our inter-disciplinary, team-based approach to providing legal services. Our teams routinely work with private equity clients in the following areas:
- M&A and joint ventures, including take-private transactions
- Equity finance, including exempt securities offerings
- Debt facilities, including acquisition and working capital credit facilities
- Tax structuring and federal, state, and local tax matters
- Corporate governance and capital markets
- Real estate, economic development, and tax incentives
- Employee benefits, executive compensation, and equity incentive compensation structuring
- Labor, employment, health & safety, and workers’ compensation
- Privacy and data security
- Information technology
- Environmental
- Bankruptcy, distressed M&A, workouts and restructurings
- Supply chain, logistics and e-commerce
- Franchise
- Energy, oil & gas
- General corporate matters
- Intellectual property prosecution, protection and transactions
- Corporate, shareholder and commercial litigation
- Strategic communications and crisis management
- Antitrust and trade regulation
