Julie's practice is centered in the areas of private equity, venture capital, corporate finance, securities, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and general business matters. She focuses on daily representation on transactional, corporate and contract work, as well as strategic business counseling, capital formation and structuring for privately-held companies.
Julie's practice concentration is on representation of private equity funds as well as portfolio companies of such funds. She has assisted private equity firms in all aspects of their business cycle, including formation, solicitation of capital, acquisitions, management of portfolio companies and divestitures.
Representative Experience
- Represented Chroma Color Corporation in the purchase of assets of Spectra Color, Inc.
- Represented Solv Energy in the purchase of the stock of Sacramento Drilling from its sole owner. Solv Energy, owned by American Securities, provides drilling and related services for the solar energy and construction industries.
- Represented Trace3 in the purchase of the stock of Zivaro, Inc. Trace3, a portfolio company of American Securities, is a leading provider of IT solutions, specializing in hardware and software resale, cloud engineering, and managed IT services. Serving the government, education, healthcare, financial, and utility sectors across the United States, Trace3 delivers innovative technology solutions tailored to meet the evolving needs of its clients.
- Represented NWN Corporation in its acquisition of Leverage Information Systems, Inc., a company engaged in technology-based hybrid IT business solutions.
- Represented the seller in a sale-leaseback transaction for a warehouse, office and manufacturing property in Stanford, Kentucky used for acrylic paints, oil paints, stretcher bars, easels, craft paper products and accessories.
- Represented Arsenal Capital Partners in its purchase of real estate and substantially all of the assets of a business that sells induction heat treatment of iso-statically molded carbonous/graphitic raw materials.
- Represented Meridian Adhesives Group, a leading producer of high-performance advanced adhesives for electronics, infrastructure, and industrial end markets, in its sale to American Securities, a leading U.S. private equity firm.
- Represented Chroma Color Corporation, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners and a leading specialty color and additive concentrate supplier serving the global plastics marketplace, in its recent acquisition of Plastics Color Corporation.
- Represented Trace3, a premier provider of advanced technology consultation services and solutions, in a definitive agreement to acquire LaSalle Solutions, a business division of Fifth Third Bank.
- Represented MPE Partners in the recapitalization of DecoArt, a leading manufacturer of paints and finishes for arts, crafts, and home decorating applications.
