Ira C. Kaplan
Executive Chairman of the Firm, Executive Committee Member
Overview
Ira focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions as well as public and private debt and equity financings. He also works extensively in the healthcare services sector, including dental service organizations (DSOs) and other healthcare services such as behavioral health, physician practice management, revenue cycle management, and home health companies.
Ira represents both publicly and privately held companies at various stages of growth. He has been involved in planning for growth companies, helping to position them for growth and liquidity. Ira serves as outside General Counsel to many of his clients and also represents private equity, and subordinated debt funds, family offices, as well as the portfolio companies of these funds and offices.
Ira is the firm’s Executive Chairman and serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Ira served as Managing Partner of the firm from 2008 to 2014. Prior to that, he served as Associate Managing Partner from 2007 to 2008. Ira has co-chaired the firm’s Corporate Practice Group and Private Equity Group.
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Ira Kaplan has represented both early stage and growth companies at various stages. He has represented biotech companies, including medical device companies and therapeutic companies, from inception through sale, including through various stages of seed, venture and growth capital funding. Ira also has represented mature companies through various stages of growth and capitalization and exit. Those companies include service providers such as medical and dental management companies, health care IT companies, home health companies and revenue cycle management companies. He has represented both operating companies and funds in their acquisition and financing of platform companies.
What I Do
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Experience
Advised a leading provider of a platform connecting TMS, telematics, and transportation services with prebuilt integrations in its capital raise to support operations and growth.
Advised a leading transportation technology platform provider on a capital raise to support ongoing operations and accelerate growth.
Advised Radiological Service Training Institute (RSTI) in its sale of 100% of its equity interests to PartsSource, a Bain Capital-backed platform. RSTI is in the business of providing radiological training products and services.
Represented Weinberg Capital Group and its platform company, Salt River Aviation, LLC, in its add-on acquisition of Phoenix Aviation Services, LLC d/b/a Aviocraft, a premier maintenance, repair and overhaul (“MRO”) provider specializing in batteries, chargers, communication devices, galley, relays and other aircraft accessories.
Represented Weinberg Capital Group, in its acquisition of Salt River Aviation, LLC, a niche provider of Auxiliary Power Units, APU teardown and disassembly services, APU Subcomponents and other airframe parts and components, targeting some of the largest commercial aircraft platforms today, including the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 families.
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 DSO in nine add-on practice acquisitions to continue to grow regional dental services organization and enhance EBITDA for future capital event. We handled all aspects of structuring, diligence and execution of acquisition. Advised on post-closing integration.
Represented Trident Capital in the sale of MedSave.
Represented Weinberg Capital Group in the sale of its interest in North American Kitchen Solutions, Inc. (dba Hoodmart).
Represented Aero 3, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“AeroRepair”), a portfolio company of Weinberg Capital Group (“Weinberg”), in the acquisition by GenNx360 Capital Partners.
Represented Norwalk Furniture in a transaction to give ownership to its employees through an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP.
Represented the seller in its disposition of a highly specialized Strategic Service Provider (SSP) of customized Information Technology products and services to private equity.
Represented Orbital Health in a $600,000 pre-seed venture capital investment leb by Comeback Capital and including Right Side Capital Management, EV Private Investments and GAM Investments.
Represented Vizzle® (a/k/a Monarch Teaching Technologies), a web-based platform that includes visual, interactive lessons for special education students and students with autism, in its acquisition by Rethink Ed, an award-winning technology developer of cloud-based tools, training, and supports for students with special needs.
Represented Duramark Products Inc.(Formerly Ritrama USA), a market leader in the design and manufacture of self-adhesive materials, in the acquisition of the company’s Minnesota and South Carolina facilities by Mactac®. Mactac, a LINTEC Company, is a leading manufacturer and distributor of pressure-sensitive adhesive materials used in label printing, graphic design, packaging, and retail display, among others.
Represented the CEO and COO of an automotive products manufacturer during its acquisition by a private equity firm in connection with their employment agreements as well as their investments in the company.
Represented private equity team in its acquisition of an add-on business to its platform company.
Represented River Cities Capital in its investment in FlexCare Infusion Center, a provider of infusion therapy.
Represented Amprion, a developer of technology for the early detection of neurodegenerative brain diseases in connection with offering of Series A Preferred Stock.
Convenience Valet is a value-added distributor of branded convenience/travel size health and beauty care products, over-the-counter drugs, personal care products and sundries sold in small-portion packages. The business was acquired by Lil’ Drug Stores which combines the two leading companies in the industry.
Represented the sellers in the sale of ALICE Training Institute, an active shooter training solution and preparedness education program for organizations.
Represented Global Transport Logistics, Inc. (“GTLi”) in its merger with Am Trans Expedite, Inc. and acquisition by Hudson Hill Capital to form Fusion Transport, a new logistics platform.
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Credentials
Education
- Political Science
- Scott Paper Scholarship Award
- Student Life Award
Clerkships and Bar Admissions
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- Executive Committee Member, Jewish Federation of Cleveland
- Board Chair Elect and Executive Committee Member, United Way of Greater Cleveland
- Past Campaign Co-Chair
- Past Loaned Executive Program Co-Chair
- Board and Executive Committee Member and Past Board Chair, Bellefaire JCB
- Emeritus Board Member and Past Board Chair, Cleveland Leadership Center
- Life Board Member and Past Board Chair, Engage! Cleveland
- Board Member and Past Board Chair, Mount Sinai Health Foundation
- Board Member and Past Board Chair, Wingspan Care Group
- Board Member, Downtown Cleveland Alliance
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, President’s Circle, Cleveland American Jewish Committee
- Member, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- Member and Co-Chair, Health and Long-Term Care Committee, Jewish Federation of North America
- Former Board and Executive Committee Member, Business Volunteers Unlimited
- Former Board Member, Trustee and Past Board Chair, Council Gardens
- Former Executive Committee Member, Trustee and Past Board Chair, Menorah Park Center for Senior Living
- Served, Governor’s Third Frontier Task Force on Biotechnology
- Leadership Cleveland, Class of 2003
- Listed, Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Venture Capital Law, The Best Lawyers in America®, 2006-2026
- Named, Cleveland Mergers and Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year, The Best Lawyers in America®, 2021
- Named Lawyer of the Year, Cleveland Venture Capital Law, The Best Lawyers in America®, 2016
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Named Lawyer of the Year, Cleveland Mergers and Acquisitions Law, The Best Lawyers in America®, 2015
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Named Lawyer of the Year, Cleveland Corporate Law, The Best Lawyers in America®, 2010
- Listed, Chambers USA Leading Lawyers, Corporate/M&A, 2011-2025
- Listed, Cleveland Magazine 500 List, 2022-2025
- Listed, Crain’s Notable Nonprofit Board Leaders, 2023
- Listed, Ohio Super Lawyers 2004-2020
- Listed, Leading Lawyers, Inside Business Magazine
- Recipient, ORT America’s Ohio Maimonides Award, 2025
- Recipient, Engage! Cleveland Lifetime Achievement Award, 2022
- Recipient, Cleveland Jewish News Difference Makers Award, 2019
- Recipient, Jewish Federation Gries Family Award, 2018
- Recipient, Menorah Park David N. Myers Award, 2018
- Recipient, ORT America Jurisprudence Award, 2014
- AV®Rated, Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review
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