Griffin M. Wonderlich

Griffin Wonderlich counsels financial sponsors, strategic acquirers, closely held businesses and management teams on all aspects of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He primarily focuses his practice on middle market private equity transactions, including leveraged buyouts, traditional purchase and sales transactions, strategic mergers, control and minority investments, restructurings and recapitalizations.

Griffin also advises portfolio companies and corporate clients on various management, operational, commercial contract drafting and corporate governance issues. With a dedicated understanding of his clients’ businesses, he focuses on delivering actionable advice and pragmatic solutions to strategically plan for the future and mitigate known and unknown risk.

Representative Matters

Griffin has closed over 75 business transactions to date, with a cumulative value of over $2.5 billion. Selected examples include:

• JTM Corp. in its acquisition of Big Texas and Cloverhill brands from J.M. Smucker Co.
• Sale of Big Bolt to LindFast Solutions Group
• Oliver Inc. in its acquisition of:
  • Tap Packaging + Design
  • Impress Communications
• Sandler joining forces with AuctusIQ
• 360 Fire & Flood in its acquisition of:
  • Crossroads Property Rescue
  • Celtic Restoration Group
  • ProTech Construction
• Sale of Texas Insulation to TopBuild
• Orbus Visual Communication Group in its acquisition of CREO Industrial Arts
• Cadence Petroleum Group in its acquisition of Yoder Oil Co.
• Online Labels Group in its acquisition of:
  • LabelValue
  • Bay Tech Label
• Network Coverage in its acquisition of:
  • Think|Stack
  • MadWolf Technologies
  • The Lloyd Group
  • VersaTrust
• BELAY Solutions in its acquisition of: 
  • Fortiviti
  • Accountfully
  • Scale Finance
  • CFO Advisory 
• Minuteman Security & Life Safety in its acquisition of: 
  • Life Safety Integrated Systems Inc.
  • AdaptToSolve, Inc.
  • Access Security Corp. 
  • Secuni
  • Split Pine Technologies
  • Shanix
  • Security Technologies, Inc. 
  • Strategic Security Solutions (S3)
• Tenex Capital Management in the following transactions:
  • Acquisition of United Aqua Group
  • Investment in Rick's Custom Fencing & Decking
  • Investment in Behavioral Innovations
  • Sale of Online Labels Group
  • Recapitalization of Gold Medal Pools
  • Investment in Minuteman Security and Life Safety
  • Acquisition of Network Coverage

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