D. Stephen Antion
Partner
Steve is recognized for providing integrated and holistic counseling to private equity firms, public companies, entrepreneurial businesses, and family offices. He has experience advising clients across a range of industries on complex transactions and governance issues.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
- Represented a major accounting firm in the sale of its healthcare consulting business to a private equity firm.
- Represented a private equity firm in the acquisition and recapitalization of a technology consulting firm specializing in digital transformation.
- Represented an investor-owned water utility in financing transactions including a public offering of common stock, multiple issuances of long-term bonds in private placements to institutional investors and obtaining working capital facilities from banks.
- Represented LAACO, Ltd. in its sale to CubeSmart (CUBE). LAACO owned 58 self-storage facilities in the Western United States and two private clubs in Los Angeles.
- Represented a public company in an internal restructuring of its businesses.
- Represented a private equity firm in the acquisition of a home services (HVAC, plumbing, electrical) business including numerous add-on acquisitions.
- Represented a private equity firm in the sale of a compactor leasing business to another private equity firm.
- Represented the owners of a psych hospital in its sale to a charity financed by the issuance of municipal bonds.
- Represented a private equity firm in the acquisition of an automotive services business.
- Represented a private equity firm in the acquisition of a veterinary services business.
- Represented a private equity firm in the acquisition of an automotive parts distribution business and numerous subsequent add-on acquisitions.
- Represented a family office in the purchase of a foreign media distribution business.
- Represented a private equity firm in the acquisition of a medical device business.
- Represented a private equity firm in a "carve out" acquisition of a division from a large packaging company; subsequently represented the business in an add-on acquisition of another packaging business.
- Represented a private equity firm in the leveraged acquisition and subsequent sale of a national nursery business.
- Represented a private equity firm in the acquisition and recapitalization of an online advertising business.
- Represented a private equity portfolio company in the health care industry on its sale to a public company.
- Represented a private equity firm in the acquisition from the lenders of the assets of a distressed consumer products business structured as a UCC Article 9 foreclosure sale.
- Represented a private equity firm in the leveraged acquisition of a national paint and sundries business in a sale under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
- Represented a wealthy individual in a complex estate planning transaction involving the use of life insurance.
- Represented the majority owners of a women's apparel company in its sale to a private equity fund.
- Represented the owners of a media storage company in a sale transaction.
- Represented the owners of real estate in multiple sale and financing transactions.
- Represented on a pro bono basis a charity assisting former prison inmates in their transition back to society in a merger with another charity.