Jake focuses his practice on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, commercial arrangements and related general corporate counseling.
Expertise
Industries
Experience
Representative matters
J.F. Lehman & Company in multiple transactions, including its US$1.2 billion take-private of Heritage-Crystal Clean Inc.
A global financial institution on its acquisition of Bold Ocean.
Frontier Waste Solutions in its sale to Summer Street Capital Partners, LLC and Concentric Equity Partners II, L.P.
Great Elm Group, Inc. in the sale of its majority equity interest in its subsidiary, Forest Investments, Inc., to affiliates of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Evolute Capital, LLC in its acquisition of Signature Utility Services, LLC, a provider of helicopter services for railroad planning, vegetation and hazard mitigation, and construction.
Alturus Capital in its acquisition of Physicians Rehab Solution, LLC.
Qualifications
Admissions
Academic
B.A., High Distinction, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2018
J.D., summa cum laude, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, 2022
Order of the Coif, SMU Law Review, Sumners Foundation Scholar