Erik G. Knudsen

Erik G. Knudsen
Global Co-Chair of M&A Practice

4200 Republic Plaza

Denver, CO 80202-5638

eknudsen@mofo.com

(303) 592-2264

(415) 268-7830

INDUSTRIES + ISSUES

Semiconductors

BAR ADMISSIONS

Illinois

California

Colorado

EDUCATION

University of Colorado, Boulder, B.A.

Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, J.D.

Erik Knudsen is a corporate partner and serves as co-chair of the firm's global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. He is also a member of the Private Equity Buyouts & Investment Group.

Erik 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.

With a broad industry reach, Erik has led transactions in diverse sectors such as healthcare, industrial, software, internet, technology, business services, distribution, and manufacturing. His industry‑specific knowledge and comprehensive understanding of the private equity market and corporate counsel requirements position him as a trusted advisor for clients navigating complex business landscapes.

Experience

AccentCare

Advised AccentCare’s management team in the sale of AccentCare from Oak Hill Capital to Advent International.

Alpine Investors

Advised Alpine Investors in multiple transactions including its acquisition of Wilson Language Learning.

Avalign Technologies and RoundTable Healthcare Partners

Advised Avalign Technologies and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in leveraged buyouts of Advantis Medical, Nemcomed, and NGInstruments.

Bain Capital

Advised Bain Capital in the sale of FCI Burndy to Hubbell.

Bioniche Pharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners

Advised Bioniche Pharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in various product acquisitions and development projects.

BlackBerry

Advised BlackBerry in its $1.4 billion acquisition and subsequent sale of Cylance.

Bow River Capital

Advised Bow River Capital’s Software Growth Equity Fund in multiple transactions, including its majority investments in Product Plan and Accelo and its acquisition of RippleWorx.

California Cryobank

Advised California Cryobank in its acquisition of Donor Egg Bank and its sale to GI Partners.

Ciber

Advised Ciber in multiple transactions, including sale of Infor practice to Infor and the 363 sale of U.S. and Indian businesses to HTC Global.

Consortium of investors

Advised a consortium of investors (including CVCI and ABN AMRO) in the sale of Mobiltel to Telekom Austria.

Copain Wines

Advised Copain Wines in the sale to Jackson Family Wines.

CorePharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners

Advised CorePharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in product acquisitions from GlaxoSmithKline.

DigiCert

Advised Digicert’s management team in the sale of Digicert to Clearlake Capital and TA Associates.

Divvy

Advised Divvy in its $2.5 billion sale to Bill.com

Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc.

Advised Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc. in its operating subsidiaries and affiliates in multiple transactions, including the acquisitions of Horizon Eye Specialists, Emergency Physicians Medical Group, Northwest Tucson Emergency Physicians, Questcare Medical Services, Emergency Medical Associates of New Jersey, Scottsdale Emergency Associates, Phoenix Physicians, Life Line Ambulance Service, and Guardian Healthcare Group.

Excellere Partners

Advised Excellere Partners in multiple transactions, including its investment in Concord Technologies.

Flying J

Advised Flying J in various asset sales in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization.

Francisco Partners

Advised Francisco Partners in the leveraged buyout of Ichor Systems.

GKN

Advised GKN in the acquisition of Teleflex Aerospace Manufacturing Group.

GLP Pte. Ltd.

Advised GLP Pte. Ltd. in multiple transactions, including the acquisition of a $4.55 billion U.S. logistics portfolio from Industrial Income Trust.

GREE International

Advised GREE International, the Western arm of GREE, in the acquisition of DragonSoul, the critically acclaimed mobile role-playing game (RPG) developed by PerBlue, and in sale of War of Nations to RockYou.

Greenlane Holdings

Advised Greenlane Holdings in its acquisitions of DaVinci and Eyce, and its merger with KushCo.

GTCR and Devicor Medical Products

Advised GTCR and Deviocor Medical Products in the leveraged buyout of Breast Care Business of Ethicon Endo-Surgery.

Health Evolution Partners

Advised Health Evolution Partners in the leveraged buyout of Freedom Innovations.

Huck Capital

Advised Huck Capital in its partnership with Schneider Electric.

IDIQ

Advised IDIQ in its sale of 51% of IDIQ to affiliates of Corsair Capital.

Industrial Growth Partners

Advised Industrial Growth Partners in the sale of O’Brien Corp to Ametek.

Longitude Capital and NovaQuest Capital

Advised Longitude Capital and NovaQuest Capital in the leveraged buyout of California Cryobank.

NerdWallet

Advised NerdWallet in its acquisition of Fundera.

Odyssey Investment Partners

Advised Odyssey Investment Partners and its management in the sale of Norcross Safety Products to Honeywell.

Olympus Partners

Advised Olympus Partners in multiple transactions, including the equity and subordinated debt investment in Atlas Industrial Services and leveraged buyout of Norwesco.

Onsemi

Advised onsemi (Nasdaq: ONNN) in multiple transactions, including in the acquisition of the East Fishkill Facility from Global Foundries, the acquisitions of Aptina Imaging and GT Advanced Technologies, the divestiture of the Ignition IGBT Business, and the sale of the Transient Voltage Suppressor and Thyristor Business to Littelfuse, Inc.

OWP/P

Advised OWP/P in the merger with Cannon Design.

Rothschild & Co.

Advised Rothschild & Co. in its agreement to sell two asset management units to Wintrust Financial Corporation’s subsidiary Great Lakes Advisors, LLC.

RoundTable Healthcare Partners

Advised RoundTable Healthcare Partners in multiple transactions, including the leveraged buyout of Aqua Pharmaceuticals, the sale of Bioniche Pharma to Mylan, and the sale of MedAssist to Firstsource.

Rubicon Technology Partners

Advised Rubicon Technology Partners in multiple transactions, including its strategic majority investments in EverTrue and ThankView and merger thereof, its strategic majority investments in Enquire, Glennis Solutions and Sherpa CRM and merger thereof.

Sensata Technologies

Advised Sensata Technologies in the acquisition of Honeywell’s “Automotive on Board” sensors business.

Silver Lake Sumeru

Advised Silver Lake Sumeru in multiple transactions, including the equity investment in Opera Solutions and sale of i2 Holdings Limited to IBM.

SoftBank

Advised SoftBank in multiple transactions, including the initial $1.26 billion acquisition of a controlling interest in Miami-based Brightstar Corp. and a subsequent second-step transaction to acquire the remaining outstanding interests, the establishment of GreenBox Systems LLC, a new joint venture with Symbotic Inc. (Nasdaq: SYM) to offer the first-of-its-kind automated warehouse services, and the formation of a 50/50 joint venture with Tempus AI focused on the business of performing clinical sequencing in Japan.

Tomkins Ltd.

Advised Tomkins Ltd. in multiple transactions, including the sale of Dexter Axle to Sterling Partners and in sale of Aquatic U.S. Holdings to Sterling Partners.

Unity Technologies

Advised Unity Technologies in its acquisition of Obvioos.

Vector Capital

Advised Vector Capital in the leveraged buyout of Motorola Solutions’ Point-to-Point and Point‑to‑Multipoint Wireless Broadband Networks businesses.

Versa Capital

Advised Versa Capital in the acquisition of assets of InPhonic.

Westfire

Advised Westfire in the sale to Tyco SimplexGrinnell.

Windjammer Capital

Advised Windjammer Capital in the leveraged buyout of JWC Environmental.

York Capital and JMA Ventures

Advised York Capital and JMA Ventures in the buyout of the Bay Club Co.

Rankings

Legal 500 US 2022

Ranked Practice: M&A / Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts

Legal 500 US 2024

Individual recommended for M&A / Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1BN+)

Law360 2021

Private Equity Practice Group of the Year