Polsinelli is proud to announce that the firm has been recognized with three honors at the 2025 USA M&A Middle Market Atlas Awards. The awards honor value-creating deals, outstanding firms, top dealmakers and leaders across the middle-market M&A landscape.

Polsinelli was named a winner in the following categories:

• USA Strategic M&A Deal of the Year (large market): HCA Healthcare acquires Catholic Medical Center, led by Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions Chair Chad C. Stout and Shareholder Cory C. VanDyke.
• USA Consumer Deal of the Year: Seaweed Bath acquires Andalou Naturals and Mineral Fusion from BWX USA, led by Shareholders David Cykiert and Jason Katz.
• USA ESOP Deal of the Year (mid market): REI Systems, led by Employee Stock Ownership Plans Co-Chair Sean Power.

Polsinelli’s Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures Practice closes deals. Spanning multiple industries, attorneys across the practice complete transactions for private and public companies. The group works collaboratively with in-house personnel and coordinates efforts with clients’ investment bankers, local and foreign counsel, accounting firms and other advisers to provide high-caliber, integrated legal advice covering all areas needed for a seamless negotiation and closing process. By taking the time to understand the economic and value-related consequences singular to clients’ business transactions, the practice works to protect interests and lead in the navigation of a full range of deal options.

With substantial experience in ESOP-related transactions and post-closing ESOP matters, Polsinelli’s Employee Stock Ownership Plans Practice is committed to guiding clients through the complexities to reach a successful conclusion to ESOP transactions. Attorneys in the group counsel businesses of all sizes on implementing, sponsoring and/or terminating an ESOP, creating a market for shares of a privately held company or acquiring or disposing of an ESOP-owned company. When business owners work with the group, the future of the business and its owners from every angle.