Douglas E. Kingston

Partner

Douglas E. Kingston counsels clients on a wide variety of business law matters, focusing on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), venture capital, and financing transactions. He represents entrepreneurs, startup and emerging growth companies, as well as privately held companies, through their entire life cycle, including start-up matters, equity and debt financings, corporate restructurings, and sale transactions. Douglas has represented clients across numerous industries, including beverage distribution, pharmaceutical, medical device, digital health, consumer products, technology, data management, energy, and fintech. In addition, he serves as a counselor to privately and publicly held companies on a wide variety of general corporate matters.

Selected Representations

Azer Scientific, a laboratory equipment supplier, in its sale to Inverness Graham
NewSpring Healthcare, in its acquisition of Healthworks, a provider of cardiovascular staffing, education, and industry solutions
OMERS Ventures in the $16 million financing of Falkon, a go-to-market intelligence platform
OMERS Ventures in the $100 million Series B financing of Altana, a startup pioneering a shared source of truth on the global supply chain
OMERS Growth Equity in the $45 million Series B financing of Carrum Health, the first digital health company connecting employers and employees to Centers of Excellence through a technology-powered platform for better, more cost-effective healthcare
NewSpring Healthcare in its investment in Verisma, a healthcare disclosure management technology and services company
Grand Fitness Partners, a portfolio company of HGCC, in its acquisition of a portfolio of 13 Planet Fitness locations across Virginia from the Asbell Group
Tridiuum, a digital behavioral health company, in its sale to New Directions Behavioral Health
OMERS Ventures in its investment in 99 Counties, a company that is building a vertically-integrated platform for farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumer
OMERS Ventures in the financing of Jade Healthcare, a company that offers wearable healthcare technology device, online personal health record service, patient management service and mobile health software
OMERS Ventures in the $10.5 million Series A financing of Occupier, a company that offers a lease management software solution for commercial real estate tenants and brokers
OMERS Ventures in the $22 million Series B financing of Postal.io, an offline marketing platform that helps personalize, automate, and scale direct mail, internal and external events, branded company swag, and personalized gifts to drive better engagement with prospects, customers, partners, and employees
OMERS Growth Equity in the $100 million series D financing of Ladder Financial, a company that offers direct-to-consumer, term life insurance online
Jefferies and Virtu Financial in their joint investment in InvestX, a company focused on the market for secondary share purchases and sales in privately held growth companies in Canada and the United States
Iron Mountain Incorporated, a provider innovative storage and information management services, in the $220 million sale of its Intellectual Property Management business to NCC Group (UK) (Consummated June 2021)
OMERS Growth Equity in the Series C financing of PandaDoc, an all-in-one document software (Consummated April 2021)
OMERS Growth Equity in the $45 million Series D financing of ExecOnline, a provider of online leadership development for enterprises (Consummated April 2021)
OMERS Growth Equity in the $100 million investment in Phenom, a developer of recruiting and human resources software (Consummated April 2021)
FinTech Acquisition Corp. V, a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, in its definitive business combination agreement with eToro Group, Ltd., the world’s leading social investment network. The enterprise value of eTore Group is approximately $9.6 billion. (Announced March 2021)
Traliant, a provider of online workplace compliance training solutions, in the majority investment from PSG (Consummated January 2021)
Oncoceutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing imipridones, a novel class of compounds, in its sale up to $450 million to Chimerix (Consummated January 2021)
OMERS Ventures in the $17 million Series B funding of WorkRamp, an enterprise learning platform for educating employees and customers (Consummated December 2020)
Fanatics in its acquisition of WinCraft, one of the largest hard goods licensee’s in the sports and entertainment industries (Consummated December 2020)
GB Refreshments in its acquisition of Bandit Ventures, Inc., a provider of contactless, app-only cafes in Austin and New York (Consummated October 2020)
OMERS Growth Equity in the $100 million Series E financing of Dialpad Inc., an AI-powered cloud business phone and contact center provider for modern businesses (Consummated October 2020)
Fanatics, Inc. in its acquisition of Top of the World, a retail suppler of college headwear and apparel (Consummated April 2021)
OMERS Growth Equity in the Series D financing of Skillshare, Inc., an online subscription learning community focused on building creative skills (Consummated July 2020)
MVP Capital Partners in the first institutional round of equity funding for Golf Genius Software, a provider of innovative and reliable software solutions to private clubs, public courses, resorts, and golf associations around the world (Consummated May 2020)
OMERS in the Series B financing of WithMe Health Holdings, Inc., a company that replaces an employer’s pharmacy benefit manager with a medication guidance solution to improve on and expand the scope of services available in the market (Consummated November 2020)
Standard Diversified Inc., a holding company that owns and operates subsidiaries in a variety of industries, including other tobacco products and outdoor advertising, in its merger agreement with Turning Point Brands, Inc. (Consummated July 2020)
OMERS Growth Equity in the Series C financing of Aledade, Inc., a healthcare technology company that works with doctor’s offices across the United States to build accountable care organizations and reduce costs (Consummated April 2020)
Jefferies in its financing of ApiJect Systems Corp., a company that is reinventing injections of vaccines and medicines for better coverage, more safety and at lower prices (Consummated March 2020)
Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC, in its Series A financing of Savi Solution, Inc., a provider of security and surveillance software (Consummated April 2020)
Cambridge Mobile Telematics, Inc., a leading mobile telematics provider, in its $500 million investment and recapitalization transaction with SoftBank Vision Fund (Consummated first quarters 2018)
Sallie Mae in the $50 million Series C financing of Deserve, a firm that offers credit cards directly to nontraditional consumers with little credit history and other deficiencies using a cloud-based platform to determine their creditworthiness (Consummated August 2019)
OMERS in the $52.5 million Series C financing of Clearcover, Inc., a company that offers car insurance with a customer-first, service focused model powered by advanced technology (Consummated December 2019)
OMERS Ventures in the $18 million Series C financing of Crunchbase, a provider of private-company prospecting and research solutions (Consummated October 2019)
OMERS in the $6.5 million Series A financing of PeerWell Inc., a company that has developed a mobile injury recovery platform to guide patients through their recovery from surgery
Nevakar Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company developing multiple assets in the ophthalmic and injectable areas, in its $17.5 million product financing agreement with HIG Capital Partners, LP (Consummated September 2019)
Rue Gilt Groupe, an off-price e-commerce company connecting more than 25 million members with coveted designers at an exceptional value through its two complementary brands, Rue La La and Gilt, in connection with a significant minority investment by Simon Property Group (Consummated October 2019)
Tucows Inc. in its acquisition of Ascio Technologies, a wholesale domain name registrar business (Consummated March 2019)
Tabula Rasa HealthCare in its acquisition of PrescribeWellness, cloud-based patient relationship management solutions company that facilitates collaboration between more than 10,000 pharmacies with patients, payers, providers and pharmaceutical companies (Consummated March 2019)
Tabula Rasa Healthcare in its acquisition of DoseMe, a developer of DoseMeRx, an advanced precision dosing tool to help physicians and pharmacists accurately dose patients' high-risk parenteral medications based on individual needs (Consummated December 2018)
Tabula Rasa Healthcare in its acquisition of Cognify, a company that delivers optimal business performance outcomes for senior care organizations (Consummated November 2018)
Comcast Ventures in the $100 million Series D financing of Zola, Inc., an online wedding registry service (Consummated May 2018)
Repros Therapeutics, a company focused on the treatment of reproductive disorders, in its sale to Allergan (Consummated first quarter of 2018)
Tucows in its acquisition of Roam Mobility Business, which offers mobile talk, text, and data services for international travelers traveling in North America, from Otono Networks Inc. (Consummated September 2017)
Tabula Rasa HealthCare in its $35 million acquisition of SinfoniaRx, a provider of medication therapy management technology and services for Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial health plans (Consummated September 2017)
Bright Greens, a maker of frozen cubes of smoothie concentrate for retail sale, in its Series A financing from 1894 Capital (Consummated June 2017)
TriMark USA in its acquisition of Hockenbergs Food Service Equipment & Supply, a foodservice equipment and supplies dealer (Consummated March 2017)
Tucows Inc. in its $83.5 million acquisition of eNom, a domain name registrar business, from Rightside Group (Consummated February 2017)
Citrix Systems in its acquisition of Unidesk Corporation, a designer, developer and marketer of virtual desktop management solutions (Consummated January 2017)
Miria Systems, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent business process automation, in its sale to Output Services Group, Inc. (Consummated August, 2018)
Tabula Rasa HealthCare (NASDAQ: TRHC), a healthcare technology company advancing medication safety, in its acquisition of Mediture and eClusive for $18.5 million in cash and shares of common stock of TRHC worth $7.2 million (Consummated August, 2018)
SLM Corporation (Sallie Mae) in its strategic investment in Deserve, Inc. (Consummated July, 2018)
Ethos Health Communications, a scientific writing and marketing firm, in its $41 million sale to Precision Medicine Group (Consummated July, 2018)
RueLaLa, a leading flash sale online shopping company, in its acquisition of Gilt Groupe from Hudson’s Bay Company (Consummated June, 2018)
LiquidHub, Inc., a system integrator, enterprise architecture and customer engagement firm, through numerous acquisitions, and its $500 million sale to CapGemini (Consummated March, 2018)
TriMark USA, LLC, the country’s largest restaurant supply company, in its acquisition of Chefs’ Toys, a foodservice equipment and supplies distributor (Consummated March, 2018)
Iron Mountain Incorporated, global leader in storage and information management services, in its $1.315 billion acquisition of IO Data Centers (Consummated January, 2018)
Harron Communications, L.P. in the $1.4 billion sale of all of its cable systems operating under the MetroCast brand to Atlantic Broadband, a subsidiary of Cogeco Cable Inc. (Consummated January, 2018)
Tabula Rasa HealthCare (NASDAQ: TRHC) in its acquisition of SinfoníaRx for $35 million in cash and shares of common stock of TRHC worth $10 million (Consummated September, 2017)
TriMark USA, the country’s largest restaurant supply company, in its acquisition of foodservice equipment and supplies dealer Hockenbergs Food Service Equipment & Supply (Consummated February, 2017)
eBay Inc. in connection with its $925 million divestiture of its enterprise business to private equity firms Sterling Partners and Permira (Consummated November, 2015)