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 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 $1.6 billion sale of Planview, a project-management software provider, to TPG Capital and TA Associates.*
- Represented Pangiam, an AE Industrial Partners portfolio company, in its asset acquisition of veriScan, a facial recognition technology, from Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.*
- Represented Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of Solis Mammography, a leading provider of mammography and breast imaging services, from the Audax Group.*
- Represented Thoma Bravo in its EUR 155 million carve-out acquisition of TietoEVRY’s (HEL: TIETO) oil and gas software business.*
- Represented Apax Partners in its sale of Kepro, a provider of specialty case management, utilization management, maternity management and independent medical reviews, to The Carlyle Group.*
- Represented Mountaingate Capital in its acquisition of The Mars Agency, an advertising and shopping marketing services provider, and its subsequent add-on acquisition of Analytic Index, a next-generation data platform.*
- Represented AE Industrial Partners in its simultaneous acquisitions and combination of Linkware, a leading provider of custom software solutions and consulting services to federal government organizations, and Pangiam, a security and travel consulting services provider.*