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MoFo Advises SkyKnight Capital on Growth Investment in Force Electrical Services

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Morrison Foerster advised SkyKnight Capital, a private equity firm focused on investing in market leading businesses in acyclical growth sectors, on obtaining acquisition financing related to its investment in Force Electrical Services (“Force”), a leading provider of electrical distribution and transmission infrastructure services within the power end market. ​This investment will expand Force’s service offerings and capabilities to better serve its customers. Force’s founder will remain a significant shareholder alongside SkyKnight, and the existing management team will continue to lead the Company as it enters its next phase of growth. The MoFo team advising SkyKnight Capital was led by private equity finance partners Dario Avram and Eric Min with finance associates Sabienne Brutus and Lydia Wang​. The team also included tax partners Richard Nugent and Dave Sturgeon, and tax associate Seth Stowe.​ Read the <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251022614776/en/Force-Electrical-Services-Receives-a-Growth-Investment-from-SkyKnight-Capital" target="_blank">press release [businesswire.com]</a>.

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Darío Avram is co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Finance Group and a member of the Private Equity Buyouts & Investment Group. His transactional practice is focused on financings and private equity matters, with additional experience in restructurings.Darío regularly represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a variety of complex U.S. and cross-border financing transactions, including leveraged buyouts, refinancings, and restructurings. He has led transactions covering a range of industries, including technology, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, industrials, professional services, and consumer products, among others.Darío has been recognized by Chambers USA as a notable practitioner for Banking & Finance in California. He was also recognized by Global M&A Network as one of Americas Top 50 Rising Dealmakers and by Legal 500 as a key partner for Private Equity Buyouts.

Dario D. Avram

Partner

Eric Min is a partner in the Finance and Private Equity Buyouts & Investment Groups at Morrison Foerster.Eric regularly advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies and fintech companies in a variety of complex U.S. and cross-border financing transactions, including leveraged acquisitions, syndicated lending, investment grade lending, asset-based lending, and warehouse facilities. Eric has substantial experience representing clients in transactions covering a wide variety of industries, including technology, fintech, consumer and retail and professional services.

Eric Min

Sabienne Brutus is an associate in Morrison Foerster’s Finance Group in the New York office. She represents borrowers and lenders in a broad range of domestic and cross-border finance transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, fund finance, project finance and asset-based finance.Before joining Morrison Foerster, Sabienne worked as an analyst for an e-discovery company. She received her J.D. from the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University with a concentration on rule of law and constitutional design. She was the managing editor of the Indiana Journal for Global Legal Studies. Sabienne was awarded the 2019 Snyder Visiting Scholar Fellowship to conduct an independent research project on international law and monetary policy at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.Sabienne serves on the board of directors for New Visions for Public Schools, a nonprofit organization working toward education equity in New York City high schools. In 2022, Sabienne was named a Top 40 Under 40 Lawyer in New York State by The National Black Lawyers, a membership organization made up of the top African American attorneys in the United States.Sabienne speaks Haitian Kreyòl, French, and Spanish.

Sabienne Brutus

Associate

Lydia Wang is an associate in the Transactions Department of Morrison Foerster’s San Francisco office.Lydia’s practice focuses on general corporate transactions.Lydia was a summer associate in Morrison Foerster’s New York and San Francisco offices, where she worked across the firm’s Transactional Department.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Lydia completed legal internships at several organizations, including: Pulsora, a startup providing ESG and sustainability management software to public and private companies; the New York State Office of the Attorney General, where she worked with the Bureau of Consumer Frauds; and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she worked with the Division of Enforcement.Lydia received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Kent Scholar and a recipient of the Parker Certificate in International and Comparative Law. She also served as a student attorney for the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic, staff editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and program coordinator for the Human Rights Institute 1L Advocates Program. She received her B.S. with honors in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Lydia Wang

Richard Nugent is a partner in the firm’s New York office and chair of its Tax practice.Richard has over 25 years of experience advising on the tax aspects of complex transactions including public and private M&A, spin-offs, joint ventures, internal restructurings, and financings and capital markets transactions. He also advises debtors and creditors within and outside of bankruptcy.Richard has been recognized in Chambers USA, where he is praised as “an extremely knowledgeable and dedicated attorney” and “well-versed in communicating complex issues.” The Legal 500 describes Richard as having a “deep understanding of the business, including product supply, marketing, and distribution” which clients describe as “priceless when representing us in deal matters.” Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Richard was a tax partner at another international law firm in New York. He serves on the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section and is a member of the Tax Forum. A sought-after speaker, Richard frequently presents on tax topics for Practising Law Institute programs.Richard holds an LL.M. with distinction from Georgetown University, a J.D. with honors from Rutgers School of Law – Newark, and a B.A., summa cum laude, from Saint Peter’s University. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit and Judge Robert P. Ruwe of the U.S. Tax Court.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>Represented Centuri Holdings and parent company Southwest Gas Holdings in $238 million public offering of common stock</li><li>Represented Paine Schwartz Partners, a global leader in sustainable food chain investing, in its investment in Chex Finer Foods, a value-added specialty food distributor</li><li>Represented the board of Continental Disc Corporation, a portfolio company of Tinicum, in connection to its sale to Baker Hughes, an energy technology company</li><li>Represented Hooter’s Inc. and Hoot Owl Restaurants, L.L.C. in the acquisition of over 100 restaurants from Hooters of America LLC, which filed for Chapter 11 protection on March 31st in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court</li><li>Represented Centuri Holdings and parent company Southwest Gas Holdings in $353 million IPO and concurrent private placement</li><li>Represented C2 Capital Partners in its investment in Stella & Chewy’s, a leading North American pet food manufacturer</li></ul>

Richard Nugent

Chair of the Tax Practice

David Sturgeon is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Federal Tax practice.Dave advises clients on a broad range of complex business transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs and other divestitures, as well as financings, refinancings, restructurings and other business transactions.He earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Chicago Journal of International Law, and received his Master of Laws in taxation from New York University School of Law.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Dave was an associate at a law firm in New York, where he represented public companies, financial institutions, private equity clients and other sponsor entities across industries in an extensive range of business transactions.