Private Equity Archives - The BTI Consulting Group

Denise A. Carkhuff

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:11 +0000

Denise Carkhuff has been the lead lawyer on M&A and private equity transactions for more than 26 years. Her experience includes diverse industries, jurisdictions, and deal structures. Denise has experience in the full life cycle of a company (from formation, capital raising, dividend recapitalizations, IPOs, sales, and dissolutions). Denise’s main focus is representing private equity funds. She has served in a general counsel function for countless private companies, including portfolio companies of private equity funds.

Denise has worked with many private equity funds, including Blue Point Capital Partners, Centre Lane Partners, Cortec Group, Morgan Stanley Private Equity, The Riverside Company, and Wellspring Capital. She also represents private companies or their management teams in their ultimate sale and has been involved with many complex M&A transactions involving public and private clients.

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Catherine Rossouw

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:08 +0000

Cathy Rossouw is a transactional private equity and corporate attorney and a partner in Chapman’s Special Situations and Restructuring Group. Cathy’s diverse practice covers traditional mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, as well as early-stage equity financings, lender equity kickers, secondary market transactions, and general corporate advice. Her approach to advising clients is practical, collaborative, and results oriented.

Cathy regularly represents hedge funds, private equity funds, alternative lenders, banks, and other financial institutions in complex equity transactions and portfolio company acquisitions and works closely with corporate clients and start up companies on everyday corporate matters, including commercial contracts, stockholder agreements, LLC operating agreements, equity incentive programs, and strategic investments.

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Alfred Browne

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:06 +0000

Alfred Browne is co-chair of Cooley’s private equity practice group. He is a member of Cooley’s M&A group and co-chair of the firm’s fintech practice. His clients include private equity funds, their portfolio companies, and strategic buyers and sellers in public and private acquisitions, including leveraged buyouts and take-private transactions.

Al has experience representing a broad range of technology companies, including financial technology, software, healthcare IT, telecommunications and services companies.

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Thomas M. Devaney

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:05 +0000

Tom Devaney has served as a trusted advisor to private fund sponsors and institutional investors for more than two decades. His experience includes a distinguished track record of forming private funds and negotiating sophisticated seed and anchor investor arrangements, management team and portfolio “spin out” transactions, complex limited investor side letters, as well as joint venture arrangements for jointly managed fund platforms, many in excess of $1 billion. He is highly versed in U.S. securities laws, including the Securities Act of 1933, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Tom counsels sponsors and management teams of private funds on transactional matters and U.S. securities laws and regulations related to the formation of private funds, their fundraising and subscription phases, and ongoing administration and operations, including co-investment structures and related registered investment advisor (RIA) compliance. In addition, Tom is highly knowledgeable about regulatory developments that impact registered investment advisers and has advised on the design and implementation of compliance programs for numerous private fund sponsors.

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Byron B. Kirkland

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:16:30 +0000

A corporate lawyer for over 35 years, Byron Kirkland has extensive experience in private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate law and securities matters. He represents emerging and established companies, both privately and publicly held, across diverse industry sectors including pharmaceutical services, information technology, software, clean technology, medical device, biotechnology, communications and manufacturing. Byron regularly advises clients with regard to general business, capital-raising financing and corporate law matters. Clients say Byron is “…incredibly practical and business-minded. He can help me find ways to think about issues that allow us to be able to achieve the things we want to as a company” (Chambers USA 2022).

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Matt Pietruczak

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:16:27 +0000

Matt Pietruczak represents companies, their founders and their investors in a wide range of important transactions, focusing on:

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Venture capital investments
Growth equity investments

He also serves as outside general counsel to companies from early-stage startups to large privately held companies. Matt works for a variety of investors, including:

Venture capital sponsors
Private equity sponsors
Family offices
Startup accelerators
Corporate venturing teams

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Derrick L. Maultsby Jr.

BTIConsulting — Wed, 29 May 2024 14:01:35 +0000

Derrick is a senior associate practicing with Frost Brown Todd’s Private Equity Practice Group. Derrick serves as a business advisor and corporate transactional lawyer to startups, small to mid-sized businesses, and Fortune 50 companies. Derrick’s clients range across multiple sectors including technology, commercial retail, restaurants, real estate development, private equity, venture capital, non-profits, and sports & entertainment. Derrick has been invited to speak by organizations across the country on various topics at the intersection of the law, technology, and sports. Derrick places importance on utilizing his expansive network, both in the Pittsburgh area and nationally, to add value to his clients by connecting individuals and businesses across various sectors with an emphasis on growth and relationship building for his clients.

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Jessica F. Cooney

tthorp — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:48:26 +0000

Jessica Cooney is an associate in the private equity group. Jessica focuses on representing public and private strategic clients as well as private equity clients in a range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, add-ons, preferred equity investments, PIPEs, co-investments, dispositions and general corporate and governance matters.

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Aisha P. Lavinier

tthorp — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:55:45 +0000

Aisha Lavinier is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Aisha advises private equity sponsors and public and private companies on complex business transactions, including structuring and negotiating strategic mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts, equity and debt financings, recapitalizations and restructurings, executive compensation and incentive equity arrangements, as well as other general corporate matters.

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Andrew M. Levine

tthorp — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:55:32 +0000

Andy Levine co-chairs Jones Day’s global Private Equity Practice and has been the lead lawyer on global transactions for both sponsors and strategic participants, including ABM Industries, Bombardier, Brookfield, Cardinal Health, EagleTree Capital (f.k.a. Wasserstein & Co.), Monster Beverage, Omnicom Group, Pegasus Capital, Procter & Gamble, Ryder System, Sprint-Nextel, Stanley Works, Verizon, and WL Ross & Co.

Andy’s recent transactions include Procter & Gamble’s $4.2 billion acquisition of Merck KGaA’s consumer health care business; EagleTree Capital’s acquisitions of CORSAIR, Gaylord Chemical Company, and FuseFX and its recent sale of Paris Presents; Verizon’s $3.6 billion sale of 24 data center sites to Equinix; Galenica’s acquisition of Relypsa for $1.53 billion; Stillwater Mining’s acquisition by Sibanye Gold for $2.2 billion; ITC Holdings’ acquisition by Fortis for $11.3 billion; and ABM’s acquisition of GCA Services for $1.25 billion. He has substantial experience in venture capital, distress M&A, joint ventures, special committee transactions, corporate governance, takeover preparedness, and restructurings. Andy has worked in a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals and health care, consumer goods and retail, telecommunications, real estate, financial services, facility services, shipping, advertising and marketing, energy, and manufacturing.

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