Overview
Ester represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as publicly and privately held companies, on complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic investments.
Ester has experience in transactions involving business and professional services, manufacturing and industrials, healthcare, transportation and logistics, among others. Ester also provides counsel to clients on a broad range of corporate governance matters, including entity formation and organizational planning.
What I Do
Experience
Represented the ownership team of Premier Produce One, Inc. in its sale to an affiliate of Shore Capital Partners, the purchase price of which was paid in a combination of cash and rollover equity. Benesch served as co-counsel on the transaction and advised certain owners on employment matters. Representation and warranty insurance was secured for the benefit of both parties.
Represented Honeycomb Battery Company, an electric vehicle battery technology company carved out from its parent Global Graphene Group, Inc., in its completed business combination with Nubia Brand International Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, to form a new Nasdaq-listed company known as Solidion Technology, Inc., including restricted securities issuances and corporate governance matters.
Represented Weinberg Capital Group in the sale of the Alex N. Sill Company, a leading public insurance adjusting firm in North America with offices through the U.S. and Canada, to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners.
Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a provider of mental-health services in the State of Washington.
Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a provider of mental-health services with a focus on telehealth.
Represented the buyer in its add-on acquisition of a provider of disaster restoration services.
Represented Stonehenge Partners in its sale of its portfolio company, PPM Technologies, a leading manufacturer of high-quality conveying, coating, and thermal equipment, to Duravant LLC, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus and Carlyle.
Represented buyer in its acquisition of a disaster restoration services company from an ESOP.
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Credentials
Education
- Order of the Coif
- Organizational Editor, Journal of Law, Technology, and the Internet
- Co-President, Jewish Law Student Organization
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Constitutional Law
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Secured Transactions
- Federal Bar Association Award
- Arthur E. Petersilge Award
- magna cum laude
- magna cum laude
Clerkships and Bar Admissions
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Benesch Advises Revelar Capital on Acquisition of Lettermen’s Energy, Building National Propane Platform
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