Ted M. Frankel, P.C.

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

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Overview

Ted Frankel is a partner in the M&A / Private Equity Practice Group and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Ted focuses on mergers and acquisitions and other strategically important transactions domestically and internationally. His practice also involves joint ventures, equity investments (including PIPEs and growth equity investments), recapitalizations, continuation fund transactions and corporate restructurings. Ted’s transaction experience spans a variety of industries, including automation, software, technology, media, healthcare, life sciences, medical devices and medical products, consumer products, retail, business and financial services and related technologies, energy services and related technologies, specialty chemicals, industrial products, manufacturing and material handling systems.

Ted was recognized by Chambers USA for Corporate/M&A - Private Equity in 2020–2025 and by Law360 as a “Rising Star” in 2016. Clients noted the following to Chambers USA:

“Ted is an outstanding attorney and always delivers for his clients.”
“Ted is an exceptional partner. He's laser-focused on managing risk while keeping the right commercial mindset.”
“Ted takes time to understand the deals he is working on and doesn't approach every deal in a cookie-cutter manner.”
“Ted is always driven by client service. He’s a true, service-first partner who takes ownership of all functions and aspects of the deal.”
“Ted has invested enormous personal energy in supporting us on our most important matters.”

Clients also highlighted to Chambers USA Ted’s “deep knowledge in M&A, his commercial approach to solving issues, and ability to simplify complex issues.”

Experience

Thomas H. Lee Partners in various matters, including the following publicly announced transactions:

acquisition of Phillips Pet Food & Supplies
acquisition of Bargain Hunt
acquisition of Give & Go Prepared Foods and sale to Mondelēz International
acquisition of Professional Physical Therapy
acquisition of Art Van Furniture and several add-on acquisitions for Art Van Furniture
acquisition of Material Handling Systems and several add-on acquisitions for Material Handling Systems
acquisition of Auction.com and Ten-X, as well as subsequent separation of businesses and sale of Ten-X to CoStar
acquisition and subsequent recapitalization of Hightower and several add-on acquisitions for Hightower
acquisition of Alfresco Software and sale to Hyland Software
sale of Curo Health Services to consortium comprised of Humana Inc., TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
recapitalization of 8th Avenue Food & Provisions
acquisition and IPO of Dun & Bradstreet (as part of investor group also including CC Capital, Cannae Holdings, Bilcar and Black Knight)
acquisition of Fortna
acquisition and sale of Nextech Systems
acquisition of AutoStore, sale of minority stake to SoftBank, and initial public offering
acquisition of Centria Healthcare
acquisition and subsequent recapitalization of AmeriLife and AmeriLife’s acquisition of Crump Life Insurance Services
acquisition of Careforth (f/k/a Seniorlink)
acquisition of Adare Pharma Solutions and sale of Adare’s Biome business
acquisition of Hexure (f/k/a Insurance Technologies)
acquisition of Care Hospice
initial public offering of Agiliti
acquisition of CARET (f/k/a Abacus Data Systems) and sale of CARET’s HotDocs business to Mitratech
investment in FourKites
acquisition of Bazaarvoice
acquisition of House of Design
acquisition of Odessa
acquisition of Brooks Automation Inc.
investment in RightHand Robotics
investment in Kinexon
investment in Smile Doctors
investment in Qventus
acquisition of Carpe Data
combination and recapitalization of Fortna and Material Handling Systems
acquisition of inriver
acquisition of Bynder
acquisition of YA Group
acquisition of Red Nucleus

GTCR in various matters, including the following publicly announced transactions:

acquisition of majority stake in Worldpay and sale of Worldpay to Global Payments
acquisition of AssetMark
sale of AssuredPartners
acquisition of JMG Group

Honeywell International Inc. in various matters, including the following publicly announced transactions:

acquisition of liquefied natural gas technology and equipment business of Air Products
sale of personal protective equipment business to PIP
acquisition of Sundyne

Arsenal Capital Partners in various matters, including the following publicly announced transactions:

acquisition and sale of Inhance Technologies
sale of Novolyte Technologies and Novolyte Performance Materials to BASF
acquisition of IGM Group and several add-on acquisitions for IGM Group
sale of Charter Brokerage to Berkshire Hathaway
acquisition of TractManager
acquisition and sale of Flowchem
acquisition of Kel-Tech and Kel-Tech’s acquisition of Danlin Industries
several add-on acquisitions for FrontStream Payments and sale of FrontStream Payments
formation of Polymer Solutions Group, and acquisition of Peach State Labs, Phoenix Chemical Company, Flow Polymers and SASCO, as well as subsequent sale of Polymer Additives Business
acquisition and sale of BioIVT
sale of its interest in KGS-Alpha Capital Markets to BMO Financial Group
acquisition of Spartech from PolyOne and sale to Nautic Partners
acquisition of Fralock
acquisition of Polytek Development Corp.
sale of Elite Comfort Solutions to Leggett & Platt
acquisition of Revolution Plastics
acquisition and combination of Caprion Biosciences and HistoGeneX to form CellCarta, as well as subsequent acquisitions of Mosaic Labs and Reveal Biosciences
acquisition and sale of Airnov (f/k/a Clariant AG’s Healthcare Packaging business)
CPS Performance Materials’ acquisition of GEO Specialty Chemicals
acquisition of Applied Adhesives
acquisition of Eckhart and combination of Eckhart with Innovative Products & Equipment
sale of Meridian Adhesives Group
acquisition of Polywood
sale of Seal for Life Industries

Bain Capital in various matters, including the following publicly announced transactions:

acquisition of Toys “R” Us
acquisition of Sensata Technologies from Texas Instruments
Ideal Standard’s sale of Incesa to Corona
acquisition of Physio-Control from Medtronic, spin-off of Kestra Medical Technologies from Physio-Control and sale of Physio-Control to Stryker
acquisition of Notre Dame Intermédica
acquisition of Rodeo Dental
acquisition of Multi-Specialty Healthcare
investment in Hand in Hand

BayHawk Capital in the following publicly announced transaction:

acquisition of American Patrols

Coalesce Capital in the following publicly announced transaction:

acquisition of Examinetics

Motive Partners in various matters, including the following publicly announced transactions:

acquisition of majority stake in Tegra118 (f/k/a Fiserv’s Investment Services Business)
acquisition of InvestCloud, and combination of InvestCloud with Finantix and Tegra118 to create SaaS global wealth solutions platform

Sumeru Equity Partners in various matters, including the following publicly announced transaction:

investment in 360Learning

Warburg Pincus in various matters, including the following publicly announced transaction:

investment in Aura

In addition to the matters highlighted above, over the course of his career Ted has completed M&A transactions for various other public and private companies and private equity firms.

Ted M. Frankel, P.C.

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Credentials

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