Zachary M. Rupiper

Overview

Zack Rupiper counsels clients on all aspects of business transactions – including strategic planning decisions, structuring, management, and due diligence issues. He has extensive experience advising private equity clients and their portfolio companies in mergers and acquisitions, including leveraged buyouts, traditional purchase and sale transactions, strategic mergers, joint ventures, restructuring and recapitalization transactions.

Zack also assists a wide range of clients with day to day business operations and issues that may arise, ranging from general management questions to commercial contracting and corporate governance.

Prior to joining Koley Jessen, Zack externed with the Honorable William J. Riley, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Experience

Representative Matters

Zack has closed over 100 business transactions to date, with a cumulative value of over $5.0 billion. Selected examples include:

Tenex Capital Management in the following transactions:
- Investment in Behavioral Innovations
- Sale of Online Labels Group
- Recapitalization of Gold Medal Pools
- Investment in Minuteman Security and Life Safety
- Acquisition of Pugh Lubricants, LLC
- Acquisition of Unirac, Inc.
- Acquisition of Auveco
- Acquisition of Empire Auto Parts
- Acquisition of Big Bolt Corporation
- Acquisition of TerryBerry
- Acquisition of Orbus Exhibit & Display Group
- Acquisition of G2 Secure Staff
- Acquisition of Network Coverage

JTM Foods, a portfolio company of Tenex Capital Management, in its acquisition of Cookies-n-Milk
Franchise FastLane in connection with its partnership with Southfield Capital
Miller Veterinary Supply in its sale to Patterson Vet Supply
Team Select Home Care in its investments in 5 separate businesses
JBT Corporation in its acquisition of Prime Equipment Group
AbsenceSoft in its sale to Bow River Capital Partners
McCarthy Capital in its investment in BiggerPockets
Syncsort in its acquisition of Townsend Security’s IBM i security division
O’Connor’s in its sale to Thomson Reuters
Auveco in its acquisition of Marli Manufacturing
Guild Mortgage Company in its acquisition of AmeriproCornerstone Mortgage
DirectApps, Inc. in the sale of ECaTS, LLC to West Corporation
Guild Mortgage Company in acquisition of AmeriPro Home Loans, Cornerstone Mortgage, and VITEK Mortgage Group
Clearview Capital, LLC in the sale of QC Supply, LLC to Charlesbank Capital Partners
McCarthy Capital in the sale of Benaissance, LLC to WEX Inc. (NYSE: WEX)
Cadence Petroleum Group in its acquisition of:
- Apollo Lubricants
- Veteran's Oil
- Halco Industries
- Mid-South Sales
- Davison Fuels & Oil
- Stockman Oil
- Hoosier Penn Oil, Inc.