A partner in the Corporate Department, Angelo Bonvino is co-head of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice and a former member of the firm’s Management Committee. Angelo is a nationally recognized mergers and acquisitions attorney who focuses on private equity investments. He has extensive experience in advising private equity, strategic and hedge fund clients in their M&A, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, carve-out transactions, restructuring and recapitalization transactions. Angelo’s transactional work has earned him national recognition as a “Private Equity Dealmaker of the Year” by The Deal and as a leading private equity lawyer by Chambers and The Legal 500.
EXPERIENCE
Angelo's private equity and hedge fund clients include Oak Hill Capital Partners, Kohlberg & Company, Ares Management, KPS Capital Partners, MacAndrews & Forbes, The Carlyle Group, Pamplona Capital Management and Wellspring Capital Partners.
Angelo's recent experience includes representation of:
* Oak Hill Capital Partners in its:
* investment, alongside Riverside Partners, in Calero Software to finance Calero’s merger with MDSL;
* acquisition of an equity stake in Mercer Advisors from Genstar Capital and Lovell Minnick Partners;
* sale of its portfolio company, Vertex Group, to DFW Capital Partners;
* sale of its portfolio company, Accentcare, to Advent International;
* investment, alongside Pamlico Capital, in Vast Broadband;
* investment in VetCor Group Holdings Corp., alongside several other investors;
* acquisition of Safe Fleet Holdings, LLC from The Sterling Group;
* acquisition of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc.;
* acquisition of Sovernet Communications;
* acquisition of Oxford Networks from Novacap and Bank Street Capital Partners;
* acquisition of FirstLight Fiber from Riverside Partners, in FirstLight's acquisitions of 186 Communications and Finger Lakes Technologies Group and in FirstLight's sale to Antin Infrastructure Partners;
* sale of Vantage Oncology, LLC, to McKesson Specialty Health;
* acquisition of Imagine! Print Solutions and in Imagine's acquisition of Midnight Oil Agency;
* acquisition of Berlin Packaging LLC from Investcorp and in Berlin Packaging's acquisitions of Bruni Glass, Diablo Valley Packaging and Vivid Packaging Inc.;
* sale of its controlling interest in the Hillman Companies, Inc. to affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC;
* investment in SmartPak Equine LLC in connection with its acquisition by Henry Schein Inc.;
* sale of Security Networks to Monitronics International; and
* acquisition of an approximately 80 percent interest in Earth Fare from Monitor Clipper Partners.
* Kohlberg & Co. in its:
* merger of its portfolio company, Interstate Hotels & Resorts, with Aimbridge Hospitality;
* acquisition of three packaging plants from Bemis Healthcare Packaging Europe;
* sale of its portfolio company, Franklin Energy Group, to Abry Partners;
* acquisition of Nelipak Corporation, Inc. from Mason Wells;
* sale of its portfolio company, e+CancerCare, to Integrated Oncology Network LLC;
* acquisition of Sabre Industries, Inc., in Sabre’s acquisition of FWT, LLC and in Sabre’s sale to The Jordan Company, L.P.;
* acquisition of Senneca Holdings, Inc. from Audax Private Equity;
* sale of Spectrum Plastics Group to affiliates of AEA Investors LP;
* acquisition of SpecialtyCare;
* sale of NBG Home to Sycamore Partners;
* acquisition by its portfolio company, Alita Care, LLC, of Bournewood Health Systems;
* sale of its portfolio company, HawkeyePedershaab, Inc., to Forsyth Capital Investors, LLC;
* acquisition of Interstate Hotels & Resorts and in Interstate’s acquisitions of the management platform of Gateway Hospitality Group and the management agreements of 82 premium-branded, select and full-service hotels, plus one restaurant, from White Lodging;
* acquisition of Meadows Behavioral Healthcare;
* acquisition of a majority stake in Sunspire Health and in Sunspire Health's acquisition of the Princeton, Texas 40-bed residential treatment operations of Caron Treatment Centers;
* sale of its portfolio company, Aurora Casket Company, to Matthews International Corporation;
* acquisition of AM Conservation Group, AM Conservation’s investments in Service Concepts and GoodCents, AM Conservation’s merger agreement with Franklin Energy and Franklin Energy’s acquisition of PlanetEcosystems, Inc.;
* acquisition of Plantation Patterns by NBG Home, a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Co.;
* acquisition of PPC Industries Inc. from AEA Investors and in PPC Industries' acquisitions of Xeridiem Medical Devices and VitalMed, Inc. and its merger with Pexco LLC;
* sale of Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, LLC to GI Partners;
* acquisition of a majority of the equity interests in Troon Golf, LLC.;
* sale of SouthernCare Holdings, Inc.;
* acquisition of Nellson Nutraceutical LLC and in Nellson's acquisition of Le Groupe Multibar Inc.;
* acquisition of Sabre Industries, Inc. and in Sabre's acquisition of FWT, LLC;
* sale of its portfolio company, Hoffmaster Group, Inc., to Metalmark Capital; and
* sale of its portfolio company, Thomas Nelson, to HarperCollins Publishers.
* KPS Capital Partners in its:
* sale of Crenlo Cab Products, LLC to Angeles Equity Partners;
* affiliate’s acquisition of Esterline Interface Technologies group of businesses from TransDigm Group Incorporated;
* acquisition by its portfolio company, Autokiniton Global Group, of Tower International;
* sale of Chassis Brakes International Group to Hitachi Automotive Systems;
* sale of Genesis Attachments, LLC to NPK Construction Equipment, Inc.;
* acquisition of Howden from Colfax Corporation;
* acquisition of the fitness business of Brunswick Corporation, including the Life Fitness brand;
* sale of the attachments division of its portfolio company, International Equipment Solutions, to Stanley Black & Decker;
* sale of Expera Specialty Solutions, LLC to Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj;
* acquisition by its portfolio company, Autokiniton Global Group, LP, of L&W, Inc.;
* acquisition of C&D Technologies Inc. and its affiliates and in C&D's acquisition of Trojan Battery Company, LLC;
* acquisition of DexKo Global Inc. and its affiliates;
* acquisition of TaylorMade Golf Company from adidas AG;
* acquisition of WHA Holding SAS (Winoa) and its affiliates;
* sale of Anchor Glass Container Corporation to funds advised by CVC Capital Partners and BA Glass B.V.;
* sale of United Copper Industries to Southwire Company, LLC;
* sale of its portfolio company, Motor Coach Industries International, Inc., to New Flyer Industries, Inc.;
* sale of Waupaca Foundry, Inc. to Hitachi Metals, Ltd.;
* acquisition of Electrical Components International, Inc., in ECI's acquisition of Fargo Assembly Company and Whitepath Fab Tech, Inc. and in ECI’s sale to an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.;
* sale of its portfolio company, North American Breweries Holdings, to Cerveceria Costa Rica;
* acquisition by its portfolio company, International Equipment Solutions, LLC, of CWS Industries (Mfg) Corp. and Kodiak Mfg., Inc.;
* acquisition of Siac do Brasil Ltda. from SIAC S.p.A. and its affiliates;
* formation of W Foundry International, Inc. and acquisition of ThyssenKrupp Waupaca, Inc. from ThyssenKrupp Budd Company;
* sale of its portfolio company, Attends Healthcare, to Domtar Corporation; and
* acquisition of Paladin Brands Holding and Crenlo from Dover Corporation.
* Wellspring Capital Management in its:
* acquisition of SupplyOne;
* acquisition and sale of Tradesmen International, LLC;
* acquisition of Hoffmaster Group, Inc.;
* sale of ProAmpac to Pritzker Group Private Capital;
* sale of National Seating & Mobility;
* acquisition of AdvoServ;
* merger of Prolamina Corporation and Ampac Holdings, LLC and in ProAmpac's acquisition of Coating Excellence International;
* acquisition of Help At Home, Inc.;
* sale of its portfolio co
