Joel advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies and publicly and privately held companies on complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts and other strategic transactions. Joel also counsels clients on a broad range of general corporate matters, including governance and executive compensation.
Joel has represented both leading and emerging private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as Fortune 500 and other publicly held companies, on transactions in a variety of sectors, ranging from $10 million to more than $10 billion. Joel has substantial experience in transactions involving business and professional services, healthcare, software and technology, aerospace and defense, manufacturing and industrials, and transportation and logistics, among others.
Prior to joining Benesch, Joel was a corporate associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
*Matter completed prior to joining Benesch.
Representative Experience
- Represented Millpond Equity Partners in its sale of TouchMath, a provider of supplemental math curriculum.
- Represented Blue Marlin Partners in acquiring a stake in Mo' Bettahs, a Hawaiian-Style Barbecue restaurant chain.
- Represented private equity sponsor in its simultaneous acquisitions of an oncology practice service provider and a group purchasing organization.
- Represented a global leader in labeling and packaging materials in its acquisition of a leading provider of sports apparel customization & retail experience technology.
- Represented one of the largest multifamily developers in the country as the seller in its disposition of two affordable housing properties in Texas totaling over $50,000,000, with one sale structured as a partnership interest entity sale and the other structured as a fee simple sale.
- Represented Thoma Bravo in its $3.8 billion sale of Barracuda Networks, a provider of security, networking and storage products based on network appliances and cloud services, to KKR.*
- Represented GTCR in its $925 million acquisition of EaglePicher Technologies, a provider of mission-critical power solutions for the defense, aerospace and medical end markets, from Apollo Global Management.*
- Represented Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of Vera Whole Health, an advanced primary care provider, and subsequent $370 million take private of Castlight (NYSE: CSLT).*
- Represented Sun Capital Partners in its acquisition of Cotton Holdings, a leading provider of property restoration and recovery and construction services, and subsequent add-on acquisitions of Stellar Restoration Services, Full Circle Restoration Services, Target Solutions and Advanced Catastrophe Technologies.*
- Represented Brightstar Capital Partners in its acquisition of the XLerate Group, a wholesale automobile remarketing platform, from Huron Capital Partners.*