Overview
Amanda Gottlieb represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in domestic and international multimillion and billion-dollar strategic transactions, guiding clients through complex legal and commercial issues at pivotal moments for their businesses.
She has extensive experience structuring, negotiating and executing mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, minority investments, joint ventures and corporate reorganizations. Amanda also advises sponsors, boards of directors and executive management teams on day-to-day corporate governance, compliance, capitalization and contractual matters. Her practice spans a wide range of industries, including consumer products, healthcare, industrials, business services, government services and technology.
In her pro bono practice, Amanda advises clients on family court matters through the NYC Family Court Volunteer Attorney Program, assists nonprofits in obtaining 501(c)(3) status, and helps individuals with naturalization applications.
Prior to joining Benesch, Amanda was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis.
*Matter completed prior to joining Benesch.
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Experience
Represented Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in its acquisition of TrueCommerce.*
Represented CapVest Partners in its $7 billion recapitalization of Curium Pharma.*
Represented Sentinel Capital Partners in its acquisition of L2 Brands.*
Represented Bain Capital in Orogen Group’s investment in Bain’s portfolio company Brillio.*
Represented TJC, L.P. and its portfolio company Communications & Power Industries in the $1.385 billion sale of its Electron Device business to TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG).*
Represented Sentinel Capital Partners in its sale of TranSystems to Gannett Fleming.*
Represented EQT and its portfolio company Dechra Pharmaceuticals, in its $520 million acquisition of Invetx, a provider of protein-based animal health therapeutics, from Novo Holdings.*
Represented The Jordan Company in its acquisition of Sunny Sky Products, a produce of dispensed beverage solutions.*
Represented KKR in its investment in Beacon Pointe, one of the largest independent registered investment advisory firms.*
Represented EQT and its portfolio company WorkWave, on WorkWave’s acquisition of TEAM Software, the world’s leading provider of software and solutions for cleaning, security and facilities management service providers.*
Represented A&M Capital Partners in its acquisition of The Arcticom Group.*
Represented A&M Capital Partners and its portfolio company The Arcticom Group, on The Arcticom Group’s acquisition of Tomco Mechanical Corporation.*
Represented EQT on the £650 million acquisition of SPT Labtech.*
Represented EQT and its portfolio company WorkWave, on WorkWave’s acquisition of TaskEasy.*
Represented Sentinel Capital Partners on the sale of its portfolio company, Apex Companies, a provider of end-to-end environmental consulting and engineering solutions, to Morgan Stanley Capital Partners.*
Represented TrueCommerce in its acquisition of DiCentral.*
Represented EQT Private Equity in its sale of Zemax to Ansys.*
Represented ThoughtWorks in its $720 million investment by GIC, Siemens AG, Fidelity Management and Research LLC, and Mubadala Investment Company.*
Represented Cinven in its merger of Bioclinica with ERT.*
Represented Le Tote, Inc., Lord & Taylor LLC and their affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.*
Represented KPS Capital Partners, LP in its $550 million acquisition of Briggs & Stratton Corporation.*
Represented Le Tote, Inc. in its acquisition of Lord & Taylor.*
Represented BioClinica in the sale of its clinical research site business to Accelerated Enrollment Solutions, a division of Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC.*
Represented Mode Transportation, a portfolio company of York Capital, in its acquisition of Sunteck/TTS Holdings, LLC.*
Represented Harvest Partners in its acquisition of Service Express.*
Represented AssuredPartners and Apax VIII in the sale of AssuredPartners to an investor group led by GTCR.*
Represented Woodstream Corporation, a portfolio company of Vestar Capital Partners, in the sale of its European electric animal containment business.*
Represented MSouth Equity Partners in the sale of a minority stake to Bonaccord Capital Partners.*
Represented Altas Partners in connection with the financing for its acquisition of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences.*
Represented Olympus Partners in connection with the financing for its acquisition of Tank Holding Corp.*
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Credentials
Education
- Order of the Coif
- Executive Symposia Editor, Fordham Law Review, Volume 86