John J. Sheehan
John J. “Jack” Sheehan represents private equity firms and public and private companies across many industries, including facility and residential services, aerospace and defense, technology, manufacturing, and retail. He has experience in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), leveraged buyouts, strategic investments, divestitures, recapitalizations, and governance matters. Jack also advises clients on general corporate and commercial matters and securities law matters. His experience includes transactions ranging from several million dollars to more than $1 billion on behalf of both buy-side and sell-side clients.
Jack represents many of his clients, including portfolio companies of his private equity clients, in an outside general counsel relationship, developing familiarity with their industries and issues of concern while growing strategic relationships with management teams to guide these clients through the negotiation and implementation of employment arrangements, incentive equity plans, equity and debt financings, corporate restructurings, commercial transactions, and sale transactions.
Before he entered law school, Jack worked as a tenure-track faculty member in the English department of a community college and served as an associate editor at an internationally circulated literary magazine.
While in law school, Jack interned for Chief Judge Jerome B. Simandle of the District of New Jersey.
- Fortis, a payments technology company, in a joint investment by Audax Private Equity and Lovell Minnick Partners
- Sun Capital Partners in its acquisition of Latite Roofing & Sheet Metal, the largest provider of roofing services to both commercial and residential customers in Florida
- Platinum Equity in the $1.1 billion sale of its portfolio companies, Yak Access, LLC, Yak Mat, LLC and New South Access & Environmental Solutions (collectively, Yak), a leader in the North American matting industry, to United Rentals, Inc.
- Platinum Equity in its sale of BluRoc LLC to Mollitiam Holdings
- United Petfood, a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity, in its acquisition of a production facility from Wellness Pet Company
- Strikepoint Group Holdings, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital,in more than 35 add-on transactions, including its acquisition of Waychoff’s Heating & Air Conditioning Inc., named Corporate/Strategic Deal of the Year ($25M–$50M), M&A Advisor (2022)
- Renovus Capital Partners in its investment in F2 Strategy Consultants, a WealthTech management consulting firm and creator of Outsourced CTO (OCTO).
- F2 Strategy Consultants, a portfolio company of Renovus Capital Partners, in the following transactions:
- Acquisition of Oakbrook Solutions, a consulting and services firm for the wealth management industry
- Acquisition of Sky Marketing Consultants, a provider of branding and marketing support for financial advisors and financial services companies
- Appspace, a portfolio company of LLR Partners and a digital workplace and intelligent intranet solution, in an investment by Accel-KKR
- Appspacein its acquisition of Beezy, a digital workplace and intelligent intranet solution
- Johnny Rockets, a portfolio company of Sun Capital Partners, in its sale to FAT (Fresh. Authentic. Tasty) Brands Inc.
- Triumph Group (NYSE: TGI) in the following transactions:
- Sale of Triumph’s Stuart aerostructures business to Compagnie Daher
- Sale of Triumph’s Red Oak, Texas composites operations to Arlington Capital Partners
- Sale of Triumph’s composites operations in Milledgeville, Georgia and Rayong, Thailand to Arlington Capital Partners
- Sale of Triumph’s G650 wing production program to Gulfstream Aerospace
- The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), Inc. a social media networking company, in the following transactions:
- $500 million sale to eharmony’s parent company Parship Group
- $54.6 million acquisition of Skout, a global mobile network for meeting new people
- $60 million acquisition of if(we), a social and mobile technology company
- $70 million acquisition of Lovoo, a social dating app in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria
- Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRHC) in the sale of its PrescribeWellness business
- InsPro Technologies Corp. (OTCBB: ITCC), a cloud and SaaS software provider in the life and annuity insurance market, on the successful completion of its sale to Majesco (NASDAQ: MJCO)
- Pennsylvania Trust Company in its sale to Fiduciary Trust International, a subsidiary of Franklin Templeton
- Dr Pepper Snapple Group in its $1.7 billion acquisition of Bai Beverages
- Greater Sum Ventures and its portfolio companies in transactions involving Vacation Brands, LLC and Tribute Technologies
- Verso Paper Corp. (NYSE: VRS) in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Newpage Holding Corporation from Centerbridge Partners and in the sale of NewPage Corporation's Biron paper and Rumford pulp and paper mill to Catalyst Corporation
- Bucknell University, 2004, B.A.
- Rowan University, 2007, M.A.
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2014, J.D., Magna Cum Laude
- Pennsylvania


Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Philadelphia (2023–2026)
Corporate/Strategic Deal of the Year ($25M - $50M), M&A Advisor (2022)
