David A. Bronner

Mr. Bronner concentrates his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, securities, and general corporate law. His transactional practice focuses on structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, industry consolidations, and venture capital and private equity transactions. Mr. Bronner represents public companies, family-owned businesses, start-up firms and emerging growth companies. He has extensive experience representing management groups starting new and growing businesses and his clients include nationally prominent venture capital and private equity funds. He also assists entrepreneurs with a broad range of general corporate and business counseling matters. In recognition of his expertise, he has served as an expert witness in a number of high-profile corporate law cases.

Mr. Bronner joined the Firm in 2005, with significant experience as a senior corporate law practitioner.

A representative list of his transactions includes:

• Represented Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., L.P., Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company and Coastwood Senior Housing Partners, LLC in connection with their bid to purchase out-of-bankruptcy Erickson Retirement Communities, LLC.
• Represented Brookstone Partners in its sale of Gemeinhardt Company, LLC.
• Represented Intra-Op Monitoring Services, a physician practice management company specializing in surgical monitoring services, in its sale to a private equity-sponsored buyer.
• Represented DesignPac, Inc., a gift package company, in its sale to 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc.
• Represented National Wheel-O-Vator Co., Inc., a residential elevator manufacturer, in its sale to ThyssenKrupp Access.
• Represented CybrCollect, Inc., a check collection service business, in its sale to a private equity firm.
• Represented Merit Capital Partners in its acquisition of Cobra Wire & Cable Company, Inc., a manufacturer of specialty wire and cable products.
• Represented Brookstone Partners in the acquisition of Gemeinhardt Company, Inc., a manufacturer of musical instruments.
• Represented a Florida oncology medical practice in its sale to Response Oncology, a publicly-held physician practice management company.
• Represented Preferred Health Management, Inc., a private-equity sponsored physician practice management company in its purchase of a large California-based radiology practice.
• Represented Preferred Health Management, Inc., a physician practice management company, in its financing with Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Capstone Ventures and the LINC Group, Inc.
• Represented Banc One Venture Partners in its investment in Pacer Propane, a natural gas distributor.
• Represented Windpoint Partners and Alpha Capital Corporation in their investment in the Half Off Card Shop, Inc.
• Represented Banc One Venture Partners in its investment in Flexys Holding B.V., a testing instruments manufacturer, a spin-off of Monsanto Company, with operations in the United States, Europe and the Far East.
• Represented Banc One Venture Partners in its investment in LaFayette Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an Indiana-based company, and subsequent add-on investments.
• Represented Banc One Venture Partners in its acquisition of Seco Products Corporation, a manufacturer of equipment for the warming and chilling of food.
• Represented CIVC Partners, LLC in its investment in NSP Holdings, LLC which acquired Norcross Safety Products LLC and North Safety Products, a division of Siebe plc.
• Represented CIVC Partners, LLC in its investment in, and disposition of, Land ’N Sea Corporation, a wholesale marine products distributor.
• Represented Brookstone Partners in the acquisition of Stonehouse Building Products, Inc., a bathroom top manufacturer.
• Represented The LINC Group, Inc., an equipment lessor, in all aspects of its venture capital leasing program.
• Represented JK&B Capital in its investment in Icon Solutions Corporation.
• Represented Willis Stein and Partners in its buyout of a major investor in Zeborg, Inc., a Willis Stein portfolio company.
• Represented Banc One Venture Partners in its acquisition of Alpha Technologies L.P., a supplier to the rubber chemical industry.
• Represented Laidlaw Waste Systems, Inc. in every aspect of its industry consolidation.
• Represented United Waste Systems, Inc. in every aspect of its industry consolidation.
• Represented MC Industries, Inc., a $100 million private equity-backed company financed by funds of GTCR, Madison Dearborn Partners and Banc One Venture Partners.
• Represented Preferred Health Management, Inc., a California-based health care finance firm, in its financing with Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Capstone Ventures and the LINC Group, Inc.
• Represented Cronus, Inc., a Chicago-based telecommunications firm, in its negotiations with CID Partners.
• Represented Fort Dearborn Partners, Inc., an investment banking firm, in multiple equity investments, including JAM TV, Puzzle Place Entertainment and Palestra LLC.
• Represented H3, Inc., a sports headwear distributor, in its sale to Milestone Partners, a Philadelphia-based private equity group.
• Represented numerous early stage companies in all aspects of their financing including Intellicorp Corporation, The Bronner Group, LLC, Advanced Medical Imaging of Stuart Ltd. and International Cyberbanque, Inc.
• Represented Computer Adaptive Technologies, an Internet-based testing company, in its venture financing with Vision Capital and its subsequent sale to Houghton Mifflin Corporation, a publicly-held publisher.
• Represented Wizdom Controls, Inc., a factory automation software company, in all aspects of its private equity financings and successful subsequent sale to Emerson Electric Corporation.
• Represented Convergent Capital, Inc., an asset management firm, in multiple acquisitions and investments.
• Represented American General Holdings, Inc., a non-standard insurance company, in its trust preferred financing.
• Represented MICRO, Inc., a pharmaceutical testing company, in a private equity financing.
• Represented CIVC Partners, LLC in its recapitalization of TransWestern Holdings, IP, a portfolio company.
• Represented EPS Solutions Corporation, a human services company, in its sale of its D’Accord Group to Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Leasing Limited.
• Represented Recycling Industries, Inc. in its industry consolidation.
• Represented State Street Bank & Trust Company, as Trustee, in the S-Corp. ESOP transaction for Scitor Corporation, a federal consulting firm.
• Represented Hyperfeed Technologies, Inc., a data feed technologies licensing firm, in the sale of its data feed business to Comstock, Inc.

Expert Witness Services

• Served as an expert witness (2008) in the precedent setting Genesco-Finish Line case regarding interpretation of specific exclusions from a Material Adverse Effect clause in a public company, merger agreement.
• Engaged to serve as an expert witness (2009) in the high-profile federal criminal prosecution of Joseph Collins, a senior partner at a major law firm, in connection with the Refco Securities fraud matter.
• Serving as an expert witness (2010) on behalf of a senior partner at a major Chicago law firm in a legal malpractice arbitration proceeding.