Clients call on Gordon Spring to help them grow, diversify, and monetize their businesses. His primary practice involves implementing acquisition and divestiture strategies on behalf of private equity funds, family offices, founders and management teams, with particular emphasis on middle-market transactions. Representative clients and industry experience is set forth below.

Private Equity Funds and Portfolio Companies:

• Advising portfolio companies of Leeds Equity Partners, a private equity fund with an investment focus on the middle market knowledge industries involving education, training, software, and information services, including BARBRI and CeriFi
• Advising Confluent Health, a national provider of physical therapy and occupational therapy health services and a portfolio company of Partners Group, a private markets investment manager
• Advising Waterline Renewal Technologies, Inc., a provider of products and technology regarding the trenchless rehabilitation of wastewater infrastructure and a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, a private equity fund focused on middle market businesses
• Advising Watchfire Signs, a designer and manufacturer of digital signage and provider of related technology solutions and a portfolio company of The Jordan Company, a private equity fund

Founders and Closely-Held Businesses:

• Advising the founders and owners of Integrated Rehab Consultants L.L.C., the largest physiatry group in the country (with particular focus on partnerships with skilled nursing facilities and inpatient rehab facilities), in the sale of a controlling interest to a private equity fund
• Advising sellers of Marley Drug, Inc., a national independent mail order pharmacy business, in a sale to a strategic acquirer
• Advising Paragon Plastics, Inc., a manufacturing business specializing in thermoforming, fabrication and assembly of custom plastic products, in connection with its sale to a strategic acquirer

Gordon prides himself on establishing deep relationships with clients’ management teams to fully appreciate business operations and provide customized guidance. As a result, he serves as outside general counsel for a large number of businesses and works closely with a cross-disciplinary team of colleagues to address needs relating to entity formation, corporate governance, employment and separation matters, commercial arrangements, and debt and equity financings, among others.