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Brandon Winer is an associate in the firm’s private equity group. He focuses his practice on representing institutional and strategic investors in a wide range of complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, minority investments and divestitures across a broad range of industries. Brandon also regularly advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on add-on acquisitions, equity financing and general corporate governance matters.
During law school, Brandon served as editor-in-chief of the Boston University Law Review and competed on the Boston University School of Law’s mock trial team. Before attending law school, Brandon worked as a paralegal in the non-capital habeas corpus unit of the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Nevada.
Experience
- Represented BlueCat Networks, a leading provider of mission-critical network infrastructure management, automation, and security solutions and portfolio company of Audax Group, in its acquisition of LiveAction, a global provider of network observability and intelligence solutions.
- Represented Silversmith Capital Partners in its sale of MediQuant, a leader in cloud-based data archiving and interoperability solutions for hospitals and health systems.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its investment in Vital Care, a leading franchisor of infusion therapy pharmacies.
- Represented Haveli Investments in its acquisition of ZeroFox Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of external cybersecurity.
- Represented Advent International in its sale of Grupo CRM, a premium chocolate player in Brazil, to Nestlé.
- Represented Ansira Partners, a global marketing services and solutions company and portfolio company of Advent International Corporation, in its acquisitions of BrightWave Marketing, a leading email and eCRM company, and the digital marketing business of CDK Global now rebranded as Sincro, an Ansira Company, and in its sale to Truelink Capital.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its investment in PDQ, a leading provider of IT asset management software.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its acquisition of Tango Analytics, a leader in Store Lifecycle Management and Integrated Workplace Management System software, and Tango Analytics’ acquisitions of AgilQuest, a leader in flexible and hybrid workplace scheduling, and WatchWire, a sustainability and energy management software-as-a-service (EMSaaS) provider.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its investment in Point Broadband, a provider of high speed fiber-to-the-premise internet services to residential and business customers in select small town and rural markets in the United States.
- Represented BOX Partners, a wholesaler of packaging, shipping, and industrial supplies and portfolio company of Charlesbank Capital Partners, in its acquisition of The Packaging Wholesalers, a nationwide packaging distributor.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its investment in Thompson Safety, a full-service safety company.
- Represented Audax Group in its acquisition of Mosaic Dental Collective, a leading dental services organization (DSO) supporting affiliated dental offices in California and Washington.
- Represented Advent International in its minority investment in Tredence, a data science and AI engineering company.
- Represented Cinven in its acquisition of Drake Software, a leading provider of professional tax preparation software, and Drake Software’s acquisition of TaxAct, a leading provider of digital, do-it-yourself tax filing assistance software and services.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its acquisition of AHEAD, a leading provider of cloud services.
- Represented Providence Equity Partners in its sale of Vistage Worldwide, the world's largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses.
- Represented Prospect Hill Growth Partners in its acquisition of MOTIS Brands, a vertically integrated e-commerce leader in the loading, hauling, mobility, automotive and recreational segments.
- Represented Charlesbank Capital Partners in its acquisition of Empire Today, the largest shop-at-home, direct-to-consumer flooring company in the United States.
- Represented GI Partners in its acquisition of Rectangle Health, a leading provider of healthcare financial technology and patient engagement solutions.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its sale of Masergy, a pioneer in software-defined networking (SDN) and cloud platforms for global enterprises.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its sale of Affordable Care, the country’s largest dental services organization specializing in tooth replacement.
- Represented Charlesbank Capital Partners in its sale of HDT Global, a provider of solutions aimed at creating and controlling environmental conditions to protect equipment and personnel.
- Represented Summit Partners in its sale of Abode Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading providers of home health and hospice services.
- Represented Berkshire Partners in its acquisition of Comlinkdata, a leading data and analytics provider to the global telecom industry, and Comlinkdata’s acquisition of Opensignal, an independent global standard in mobile network experience analysis.
- Represented Cove Hill Partners in its sale of Storable, a leading provider of software, payments, insurance and marketplace solutions to the self-storage industry in the U.S., to EQT.
- Represented WellSky Corporation, a global health and community care technology company and portfolio company of TPG Capital, in its acquisition of ClearCare, a leading software-as-a-service provider used by home care companies, and in its definitive agreement to add Leonard Green & Partners as a new capital partner.
- Represented HDT Global, a provider of solutions aimed at creating and controlling environmental conditions to protect equipment and personnel and portfolio company of Charlesbank Capital Partners, in its acquisition of Berg Companies, a manufacturer of hard and soft wall shelter systems, fuel and water systems and power management solutions.
- Represented Access Information Management, the world’s largest privately-held records and information management services provider and a portfolio company of Berkshire Partners and GI Partners, in its acquisition of the records and information management business of EDM Americas and its acquisition of Triyam, a rapidly-growing software business that provides expert data management solutions for healthcare organizations.