Laura N. Nance
Overview
Laura Nance is a corporate associate in the Firm’s Chicago office. Laura represents private equity sponsors and public and private company clients in complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, “take-private” transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, private financings, venture capital and other growth-based investments, recapitalizations and restructurings, as well as in related corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters.
Representative matters have ranged in size from several million dollars to more than $6 billion.
Experience
Representative Matters
Linden-backed Specialty Network on its definitive agreement to be acquired by Cardinal Health for $1.2 billion
Bain Capital in its $1.8 billion equity investment in II-VI’s (NASDAQ: IIVI) $6.5 billion acquisition of Coherent (NASDAQ: COHR), a laser technology provider
LLCP in the sale of Tropical Smoothie Café, a franchisor of fast casual restaurants, to Blackstone
Sycamore Partners in its acquisition of Playa Bowls, a super fruit bowl franchise restaurant, from Tamarix Equity Partners and Pacific General
Waud Capital Partners-backed SphereCommerce in its sale of Qgiv, a provider of a nonprofit fundraising technology platform, to Bloomerang
Summit Partners-backed Vertava Health of Mississippi, a provider of addiction treatment and mental health services, in its sale to Bradford Health Services
Reverence Capital Partners in its acquisition of Ministry Brands, a provider of cloud-based software, payments solutions, services and information platforms, from Community Brands
Sun Capital Partners in its sale of Arrow Tru-Line to MiddleGround Capital
Deltech Holdings in its acquisition of StanChem
Deltech Holdings in its sale of Deltech Europe to AOC, LLC
Reverence Capital Partners on the financing for their acquisition of Ministry Brands
Pritzker Private Capital-backed Technimark, a manufacturing solutions provider for the healthcare, consumer packaging and specialty industrial markets, in its sale of controlling stake to Oak Hill Capital
Prior Experience
Associate, Sidley Austin LLP, 2018–2020
Summer Associate, Sidley Austin LLP, 2016, 2017
Innovation Fund Associate, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Chicago Public Schools Teacher, Teach for America, Chicago Corps, 2012
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Memberships & Affiliations
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2018Illinois
Education
- University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D.2018
- University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessM.B.A., Finance2018
The Burton and Adrienne Glazov Scholar
Chair, JD/MBA Association
- Brown UniversityA.B., Commerce Organizations and Entrepreneurship2012