As the premier law firm focused on middle market private equity transactions, Massumi + Consoli occupies a unique position. With exceptionally broad deal experience, our team applies the latest market trends and strategies daily to its practice. Our Private Equity practice brings together highly skilled M&A, growth equity and debt finance lawyers to deliver a full-service and seamlessly coordinated solution for sponsors not found elsewhere in the market.

Our multidisciplinary Private Equity practice offers an end-to-end solution tailored to our clients’ specific needs and objectives, on everything from platform and add-on acquisitions and growth investments to debt financing, exit transactions and dispute resolution.

Our rich private equity transactional experience allows us to move quickly and identify challenges before they occur to help keep deals moving toward close. Beginning with a thorough evaluation of our clients’ business strategy and investment philosophy, we take the extra steps to appreciate key value drivers and the investment thesis behind each transaction. With a focus on proficiency in middle market private equity transactions across all industries, we have the versatility to deliver a more effective and efficient process for sponsors, regardless of their sector.

Given the complexity of private equity deals, a mastery of multiple areas of expertise is essential. Embedded within our Private Equity practice is a team of leading specialty practices, including in the areas of tax, debt finance, intellectual property, data privacy and cybersecurity, executive compensation and employee benefits, labor and employment and environmental, health and safety. We are unique in that all of our lawyers think like deal lawyers, not just generalists in their practice area. This concentrated focus enables us to assist clients by delivering commercial advice when overcoming the various obstacles and capitalizing on the opportunities that arise throughout a transaction.

Post-transaction, our multidisciplinary team continues to support sponsors and portfolio companies with ongoing counsel. Leveraging our ingrained familiarity from our transactional experience with clients, we provide portfolio companies with ongoing general corporate counsel, assisting them in navigating new complexities while concurrently helping sponsors maximize value in their investments.

Beyond transaction execution, our team also supports sponsors at the fund level. We provide continuing counsel post-formation on matters relating to fund operations, fund finance, investor relations and portfolio management, as well as liquidity solutions and “end-of-life” issues.

At the firm level, our team advises on the structuring and execution of GP-stakes transactions, including seed investments, growth capital and succession planning transactions, as well as the structuring of internal governance and compensation arrangements. Our practice has substantial experience advising clients on a broad spectrum of GP advisory and private fund liquidity matters, such as GP-led secondaries and continuation vehicles (including portfolio, single-asset and strip sales), net asset value (NAV) credit facilities, preferred equity solutions, complex secondaries transfers (including tender offers and stapled transactions), fund restructurings, GP-replacements and private funds special situations.

We are committed to developing meaningful and long-term partnerships with our clients, where we become deeply integrated members of their teams. As such, we work conscientiously to learn our clients’ businesses, investment strategies, preferences and key concerns in order to deliver a personalized and attentive experience and encourage them to continue partnering with us for future mandates.