Erik G. Knudsen, Of Counsel in the Private Equity Buyouts and Investment Group, focuses his practice on complex business transactions, including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers, acquisitions, investments and joint ventures, reorganizations, growth equity and venture capital investments, and divestitures. He has led transactions in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, internet, technology, consumer products, distribution and manufacturing.
Representative matters include:
- Accel Growth Fund in Series A Preferred Stock financing of 99designs
- Accel Growth Fund in Series A Preferred Stock financing of Braintree
- Avalign Technologies and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in leveraged buy-outs of Advantis Medical, Nemcomed and NGInstruments
- Bain Capital in sale of FCI Burndy to Hubbell
- Bioniche Pharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in various product acquisitions and development projects
- Consortium of investors (including CVCI and ABN AMRO) in sale of Mobiltel to Telekom Austria
- CorePharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in product acquisitions from GlaxoSmithKline
- Flying J in various asset sales in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization
- Francisco Partners in the leveraged buy-out of Ichor Systems
- GKN in acquisition of Teleflex Aerospace Manufacturing Group
- GTCR and Devicor Medical Products in leveraged buy-out of Breast Care Business of Ethicon Endo-Surgery
- Health Evolution Partners in the leveraged buy-out of Freedom Innovations
- Industrial Growth Partners in the sale of O'Brien Corp to Ametek
- Odyssey Investment Partners and management in sale of Norcross Safety Products to Honeywell
- Olympus Partners in equity and subordinated debt investment in Atlas Industrial Services
- Olympus Partners in leveraged buy-out of Norwesco
- OWP/P in merger with Cannon Design
- RoundTable Healthcare Partners in leveraged buy-out of Aqua Pharmaceuticals
- RoundTable Healthcare Partners in sale of Bioniche Pharma to Mylan
- RoundTable Healthcare Partners in sale of MedAssist to Firstsource
- Sensata Technologies in acquisition of Honeywell's "Automotive on Board" sensors business
- Silver Lake Sumeru in equity investment in Opera Solutions
- Silver Lake Sumeru in sale of i2 Holdings Limited to IBM
- Vector Capital in leveraged buy-out of Motorola Solutions' Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint Wireless Broadband Networks businesses
- Versa Capital in acquisition of assets of InPhonic
- Windjammer Capital in leveraged buy-out of JWC Environmental