Daniel D. Lewis, P.C.

Private Equity M&A

• Thomas H. Lee Partners in numerous transactions, including its:
  
  • sale of HotDocs, its enterprise document automation and assembly business, to Mitratech
  • acquisition alongside Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) of Melax Technologies, a provider of generative AI and natural language processing technology used to extract key information from biomedical textual data
  • carve-out acquisition of the semiconductor automation business of Brooks Automation Inc.
  • acquisition of AutoStore and sale of minority stake to SoftBank
  • acquisition of Auction.com and Ten-X, as well as subsequent separation of businesses and sale of Ten-X to CoStar
  • acquisition of enterprise content management software provider, Alfresco Software
  • acquisition of advanced parcel sortation system provider, Material Handling Systems
  • acquisition of Fortna
  • acquisition of House of Design
  • acquisition of Carpe Data
  • acquisition of bazaarvoice
  • acquisition of inriver
  • acquisition of Odessa
  • acquisition of Adare Pharma Solutions
  • acquisition of Nextech
  • acquisition of AmeriLife Group
  • acquisition of Hightower Advisors
  • acquisition of AbacusNext
  • acquisition of Insurance Technologies
  • sale of Agencyport Software Corp.
• Bain Capital in numerous transactions, including its:
  
  • capitalizing and launching Virgin Cruises, including the long-term license agreement with Virgin Group
  • negotiation of brand license agreement with Virgin Enterprises in connection with Bain’s $3.5 billion acquisition of Virgin Australia
• Madison Dearborn Partners in numerous transactions, including its:
  
  • acquisition of Linquest
  • acquisition of Lightspeed Systems
  • carve-out acquisition of Walgreens Infusion Services from Walgreens
  • acquisition of Enterprise DNS solutions provider, BlueCat
  • sale of over-the-top (OTT) video provider, QuickPlay Media, Inc. to AT&T
• Apax Partners in numerous transactions, including its:
  
  • acquisition of a majority stake of Herjavec Group and subsequent add-on acquisition of Fishtech Group, LLC.
  • acquisition of Align Networks and One Call Care Management
  • acquisition of Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory services
• Transom Capital Group in its carve-out acquisition of the Bose Professional businesses from Bose Corporation
• Francisco Partners in its carve-out acquisition of Capsule Technologies, a provider of medical device connectivity technology, from Qualcomm Inc.
• Thoma Bravo in its $950 million carve-out acquisition of Symantec’s SSL business
• Motive Partners in various matters, including the following:
  
  • carve-out acquisition of majority stake in Tegra118 (f/k/a Fiserv’s Investment Services Business)
  • acquisition of InvestCloud, and combination of InvestCloud with Finantix and Tegra118 to create SaaS global wealth solutions platform
• Stone Point Capital in its $6 billion take-private acquisition of CoreLogic®
• TA formation of Advantive through its simultaneous carve-out acquisition of Kiwiplan and acquisitions of Advantzware, DDI Systems, Distribution One, Infinity QS, and VIA
• The Blackstone Group in its acquisition, along with Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, of Ipreo Holdings LLC
• Reverence Capital Partners in its carve-out acquisition of Ministry Brands
• Water Street Healthcare Partners in its carve-out sale to Wipro of HealthPlan Services, a technology and business process as a service provider in the health insurance market

Public Company/Strategic M&A

• Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) in the $1.325 billion carve-out sale of its Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) business, a provider of PPE for industrial workers, to Protective Industrial Products
• Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) in its $1.81 billion acquisition of Air Products’ (NYSE: APD) liquefied natural gas (LNG) process technology and equipment business
• Verizon (NYSE: VZ) on the sale of Verizon Media to funds managed by Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE: APO) for $5 billion. The carve-out allows Verizon Media to pursue growth areas of Internet and digital media while Verizon maintains a minority stake
• General Motors (NYSE: GM) in its $2.25 billion investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund in GM Cruise Holdings LLC, GM’s autonomous vehicle (AV) business, at an $11.5 billion valuation
• Accenture (NYSE: ACN) in its $830 million carve-out sale of the Navitaire travel systems business to, and long-term strategic alliance with, Amadeus SA
• Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE) in its:
  
  • $11 billion acquisition of a majority of DuPont’s Mobility & Materials Business
  • $1.15 billion acquisition of ExxonMobil’s Santoprene TPV elastomers business
• Envista Holdings Corporation (NYSE: NVST) in its carve-out acquisition of Carestream Dental’s intra-oral scanners business for $600 million
• Northwestern Mutual in its acquisition of LearnVest, a web-based financial planning company
• Infosys Limited (NYSE: INFY) in its acquisition of Panaya, Inc., a leading provider of automation technology for large scale enterprise software management

Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances

• Joint venture to build fiber optic networks

• Strategic alliance between Japan Airlines and American Airlines

• Joint venture to establish offshore manufacturing facilities

• Strategic alliance to develop and commercialize cloud computing platform

Software and Technology

• $800 million Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deal

• $100 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) license and implementation

• Proprietary software development and maintenance deals

• Exclusive and non-exclusive source code licenses

• Open source software counseling

• Numerous cloud computing, SaaS and other “as a Service” deals, software license agreements, hosting agreements, software and IT system implementations, and other technology license and services deals

Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing

• $350 million IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) deal

• Multi-billion dollar IT outsourcing initiative involving deals with eight providers

• Multiple telecommunications network services outsourcing deals

• Multi-billion dollar asset management services outsourcing deal

• Numerous other IT and business process outsourcing deals

Pharma and Healthcare

• $350 million drug development collaboration

• Exclusive license and distribution deals

• Acquisition and sale of drug product lines

• Numerous supply and manufacturing agreements

Restructuring / Bankruptcy

• Avaya Inc.

• Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. Inc.

• Energy Future Holdings Corp.

• Cengage Learning, Inc.

MAHLE Powertrain, LLC, Novi, Michigan

• Project Manager, 2003–2005
• Project Engineer, 2002–2003