The Basics of Selling Your Business to an Independent Sponsor

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John Koeppel

M&A attorney and Partner and the Team Leader of Lippes Mathias LLP’s Private Equity Practice | New York, New York

John Koeppel is an M&A attorney and Partner and the Team Leader of Lippes Mathias LLP’s Private Equity Practice. John has successfully structured, negotiated, and closed over 250 transactions in the past two decades, which typically involve mergers and acquisitions, fund formations and investments, and various private equity transactions (including co-investments, venture financings, and cross-border deals). Mr. Koeppel acts as counsel to a number of leading funds, independent sponsors, middle-market companies, institutional investors, and high-net-worth investors focused on buy-outs, growth, venture, real estate, intellectual property, fund-of-funds, co-investments, secondaries, and other strategies. He also often acts as US counsel to non-US clients on their US private equity and investment fund transactions. He also serves as a director for several private equity-backed companies. On the M&A and private equity transactions side, Mr. Koeppel has advised on deals from $5 million to $250 million+ in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, technology, consumer goods, food, distribution, business services, cleantech, medical, and health care. He is also a frequent speaker at a number of leading private equity and M&A events. Prior to joining Lippes Mathias, he was a partner in the private equity and investment funds group of an AmLaw 100 firm.

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