Allison D. Gargano

Private Equity

• Freeman Spogli in its investment in VIO Med Spa
• Freeman Spogli and its portfolio company, Kamps, Inc., in its acquisition of Buckeye Diamond Logistics, Inc.
• Freeman Spogli in its acquisition of Kamps Pallets, Inc.
• Freeman Spogli in its acquisition of Five Star Food Service
• Freeman Spogli in its acquisition of Café Rio Inc. 
• Freeman Spogli in its leveraged recapitalization of Batteries Plus Bulbs 
• Freeman Spogli in its investment in Osprey Packs
• Freeman Spogli in its acquisition of Plantation Products 
• Probo Medical, LLC, a portfolio company of Varsity Healthcare Partners, in its sale to Avista Capital Partners
• Varsity Healthcare Partners in its acquisition of Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc. 
• Varsity Healthcare Partners in its recapitalization and growth capital partnership with Probo Medical LLC
• Varsity Healthcare Partners in its investment in Colonial Family Practice
• A middle-market private equity firm in the following: 
  
  • investment a technology-enabled service provider to the investment management industry
  • investment a company that developed a video player software for embedding videos onto web pages that is used by news, video-hosting companies, and for self-hosted web videos
  • acquisition of a manufacturer and distributor of products to global life science markets
  • acquisition of a provider of comprehensive employee engagement and performance software
• Sponsors in the leveraged recapitalization of totes Isotoner Corporation
• Lincoln Peak Capital Management, LLC in its strategic minority investments in Anchor Capital Advisors and BBR Partners

Sports

• Boston Unity Soccer Partners in its award of National Women’s Soccer League expansion team BOS Nation Football Club LLC, together with capital raising and other corporate transactions, including financing with respect to the development and construction of White Stadium
• Next3 GFC Investors LLC, an entity managed by Carolyn Tisch Blodgett, in an investment in National Women’s Soccer League team NJ/NY Gotham FC
• Represent various minority investors in other NWSL and MLS teams
• Sullington Holdings Limited in an investment in the New York Islanders
• A significant private investor in the Boston Celtics sale transaction

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Conning Holdings Limited, a leading global asset manager serving the needs of insurance company and institutional clients, in U.S. matters in its sale to Generali Investment Holdings
• Zurn Water Solutions Corporation, formerly known as Rexnord Corporation, in its $1.7 billion stock for stock merger with Elkay Manufacturing Company, a market leader in the growing commercial drinking water solutions business
• Rexnord Corp, a multiplatform industrial leader, in its definitive agreement with Regal Beloit Corp. under which Rexnord will separate its Process & Motion Control segment by way of a tax-free spin-off to Rexnord shareholders and then combine it with Regal in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction creating a $10 billion PMC business
• Tempur Sealy International, Inc. in its acquisition of Sealy Corporation and its related placement of $375 million senior notes 
• Beacon Trust Company in its acquisition of Tirschwell & Loewy, Inc., an independent registered investment adviser
• Bank of America in the sale of its alternative investment feeder fund business to iCapital
• Sandvik AB in its acquisition of Varel International Energy Services
• Ferguson Enterprises in its acquisitions of S.W. Anderson Sales Corp. and Blackman Plumbing and its sale of Endries International Inc.
• Clearpool Group in its sale to BMO Financial Group
• Cambridge Global Payments in its sale, for approximately C$900 million, to Fleetcor
• UBM plc in the sale of PR Newswire 
• Advance Publications in its acquisition of 1010data 
• SamsonCapital Advisors LLC, a fixed income investment management firm, in its acquisition by Fiera Capital Corporation, a Canadian investment firm
• The MDE Group, Inc., and its affiliate Acertus Capital Management LLC, in their acquisition by Beacon Trust Company 
• Stifel Financial Corporation in its acquisition of Legg Mason Investment Counsel & Trust Co., N.A. (LMIC) from Legg Mason, Inc. 
• HF2 Financial Management, a special purpose acquisition company, in its purchase of a majority of the equity of Zais Group
• Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc. in its initial public offering of securities 
• OM Asset Management Limited, a subsidiary of Old Mutual plc, in its initial public offering of securities 
• Bel Air Investment Advisors and Bel Air Securities in their sale to Fiera Capital Corporation 
• AIG Advisor Group in the acquisition of Woodbury Financial Services from Hartford Life and Annuity Insurance Company