Robert focuses his practice on transactional matters, including cross-border transactions, private equity, merger and acquisitions, venture capital, private debt and equity financings and day-to-day counseling of companies. Robert’s experience includes all industries (consumer products, manufacturing, technology, life sciences, to name a few) and companies in all stages of development.
Robert has counseled dental service organizations (sometimes referred to as dental support organizations or DSO’s) and been in the dental space for years. He has worked throughout the United States with DSO formations, DSO business structures, DSO related combinations and restructurings as well as other aspects of a dental operation. Robert is a trusted advisor and is known as a practical problem solver.
Representative Experience
- Represented buyer in its equity acquisition of a home improvement company for a purchase price of $61,500,000.
- Represented Norwalk Furniture in a transaction to give ownership to its employees through an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP.
- Represented client as strategic Stalking-Horse Bidder to purchase assets as going concern in a Section 363 bankruptcy sale.
- Represented one of the leading residential direct to consumer brands of home improvement products in its acquisition of one of its largest competitors in the home improvement market.
- Represented a manufacture of high quality custom upholstery with the establishment and implementation of an employee stock ownership plan and an eventual sale to the ESOP.
- Represented Human Arc Corporation in its acquisition of the stock of L&S Associates, Inc.
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Counseled 8 unaffiliated dental group in the merger and restructuring into one DSO with over 23 locations.
- Counseled a five location endodontic group in its sale to a leading private equity backed endodontic group.
- Represented Dealer Tire LLC in selling a minority stake in the company to TA Associates, a leading growth private equity firm and subsequently a recapitalization with a different PE firm.
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Assisted a sole proprietor in the acquisition of 4 heating and cooling companies in northeast Ohio and the eventual sale to a private equity company.