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DarrowEverett’s Corporate & Business Transactions attorneys provide comprehensive legal guidance across all stages of business growth, from entity formation and governance to mergers, acquisitions, and complex commercial agreements. We focus on protecting your interests, ensuring compliance, and positioning your business for long-term success.

With experience across industries and an in-depth understanding of the challenges faced by modern businesses, we bring both legal acumen and a business-oriented perspective to every transaction. Whether negotiating key contracts, structuring joint ventures, or addressing regulatory concerns, our approach is proactive, pragmatic, and results-driven. Discover how we can empower your business with innovative strategies and unwavering support.

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Representative Matters in Corporate & Business Transactions

Represented a major Canadian private equity firm in the simultaneous closings of two strategic roll-up transactions for a regional waste disposal platform that consolidated two regional waste-disposal and recycling operators in the Northeast. The deals were financed through a senior secured credit facility provided by a large institutional lender and a seller earn-out. Our multidisciplinary team structured the acquisitions of the holding company; negotiated two separate asset purchase agreements and disclosure schedules; conducted accelerated search and payoff diligence for sellers; reviewed loan documents in connection with the upsize senior secured credit facility documents; and closed both acquisitions on an expedited timeline, aligning funding mechanics and post-closing integration milestones for the sponsor’s nationwide growth strategy.

We represented a New York-based private equity/credit sponsor in the roll-up and simultaneous closing of a regional pawn shop, marking the 30th store acquisition for the platform. Our work included structuring the acquisition, coordinating diligence, including in connection with licensing, negotiating the purchase and lease agreements, and shepherding all regulatory filings to closing.

DarrowEverett LLP represented Young American Food Brands, doing business as Miami Beef, a top provider of premium branded protein products to major retailers and food service customers throughout the country, and its investor, Trivest Partners, one of the nation’s leading private equity investment firms, in the strategic add-on acquisition of a highly regarded provider of complementary cooked beef products and its associated real estate, including a production facility.

This add-on acquisition augments our clients’ product offering and diversification in an industry experiencing rapid growth given consumer preference for higher quality protein choices. Our team led all aspects of the transaction, from structuring and negotiating the definitive agreements for both the business and real estate components, spearheading legal, regulatory, and real estate due diligence activities (including various insurance products in support of the transaction), to handling sophisticated labor and employment aspects of the transaction, and to advising on financing arrangements with a prominent national lender, which provided dual loan facilities to support the transaction.

Practice Leaders

Chad J. Gottlieb - Chief Growth Officer, Partner

Overview

Chad J. Gottlieb is the Chair of our Corporate & Business Transactions Practice Group. He focuses primarily on M&A (buy-side and sell-side), private equity, securities law, corporate law, intellectual property (trademark branding, clearance, and prosecution), and marketing and telemarketing compliance (including with respect to federal and state consumer protection laws). Chad also has experience in internal investigations, audits and responses involving government or administrative agency inquiries, investigations or formal legal requests relating to the Telephone...

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Tel: (561) 288-2600

Zach Darrow

Zachary G. Darrow - Chairman

Overview

Zachary G. Darrow serves as Chairman of DarrowEverett LLP and leads its Private Equity, Capital Markets & Securities Practice Group. Zach has forged a reputation over the last two decades as a top dealmaker in sophisticated transactional matters. He has a genuine passion for working through intricate issues and developing winning strategies for the firm’s clients. Leveraging his extensive network of contacts, deep understanding of the intricacies of the law, and negotiating acumen, Zach helps...

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Tel: (212) 335-2090