Practices:

• Corporate
  • Corporate Counseling and Governance
  • Financing and Lending
  • Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Private Equity, Hedge Funds and Venture Capital
• Government Contracts
  • Corporate

Industries

• Aerospace and Defense
• Distressed Transactions, Workouts and Bankruptcy
• Financial Services

Experience

Jeremy C. Silverman focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, especially serving privately-held targets and the private equity firms that fund them. Leveraging McKenna’s long-standing top-tier government contracts practice, Mr. Silverman has particular skill leading transactions involving federal government contractors and advising clients in the federal sector on corporate matters. Mr. Silverman also has deep non-M&A transactional experience, including assisting clients to structure and effectuate joint venture, strategic alliance and other complex commercial relationships.

Mr. Silverman is recommended by Legal 500, named a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine, and recognized as a member of Georgia’s Legal Elite by Georgia Trend Magazine.

Notable Engagements

Representations of federal government contractors include: (i) representation of i2S, Inc. ("Ideas to Solutions"), a Columbia, Maryland-based provider of IT and operational support services to the federal Intelligence Community, in a management buy-out transaction, which included the redemption of the company's majority equity holder, Grosvenor Special Ventures IV, L.P., and obtaining new senior and mezzanine financing to fund the transaction; (ii) representation of Global Analytic IT Services, Inc. ("GAITS"), based in Alexandria, Virginia, in the sale of its federal intelligence division to DC Capital Partners; (iii) representation of Engineering Support Personnel, Inc. ("ESP"), an Orlando, Florida-based provider of engineering and technical systems support to a diverse set of federal customers across the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Army, and Department of Energy, in the sale of the company to Pine Creek Capital Partners; and (iv) representation of DTI Associates, Inc., an Arlington, Virginia-based provider of engineering, technology, and professional services primarily to the United States government, including the Department of Defense and the United States Navy, in the sale of the company to Haverstick Consulting, Inc.

Representation of Valor Equity Partners, L.P., a private equity firm currently deploying its $300+ million second fund, in more than 20 portfolio company and follow-on acquisitions, joint venture transactions and dispositions. Recent transactions include: (i) Valor's acquisition of Smith Gas Field Services, a Carthage, Texas-based company providing pipeline infrastructure and production services to natural gas producers in a multi state region surrounding Texas, (ii) the combination of Plastag Holdings, a Valor portfolio company, with UV Color, to create Premier Card Solutions, a leading manufacturer of plastic identifications cards, loyalty cards, stored value cards and credit cards, and (iii) the sale of Valor portfolio company Source Refrigeration & HVAC to Arsenal Capital Partners. Work with Valor includes representation of its portfolio companies, including follow-on acquisitions, implementation of management equity plans, negotiation of key commercial relationships and other on-going operational matters.

Representation of HD Supply, Inc. in (i) its acquisition of all of the assets of D & M Fabrication, Inc., a Lodi, California-based company specializing in the fabrication of fire protection systems (such as in-building sprinkler systems) for sale to commercial distributors and building contractors, and (ii) the acquisition by HD Supply's White Cap business of substantially all of the assets of ORCO Construction Supply, Inc., an independent supplier to construction professionals in California, Arizona and Nevada. The D&M and ORCO acquisitions are HD Supply’s first acquisitions following HD Supply’s spin off from The Home Depot and sale to private equity firms Carlyle Group, Bain & Company and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.  Prior to the HD Supply spin-off, Silverman represented The Home Depot and its subsidiaries in connection with several acquisitions related to the supply business, as well as The Home Depot’s home services business.

Representation of Li'l Cricket Food Stores, Inc., owner and operator of 88 convenience stores in South Carolina under the Li'l Cricket name, in its sale to Palm Food Stores, LLC, a portfolio company of Sun Capital Partners, a multi-billion dollar private equity fund based in Boca Raton, Florida.

Representation of American Proteins, Inc. in the sale of its API Recycling division to Darling International, Inc. (NYSE:DII). Based in Cumming, Georgia, American Proteins is the leading processor of poultry by-products in the southeast United States.

Representation of TRX, Inc. (NASD:TRXI) in: (i) its acquisition of Hi-Mark Software, LLC, (ii) the sale of its US call centers to Indian-based Tata Group and (iii) a long-term Indian outsourcing arrangement with Siemens.

Education

• J.D., University of Michigan Law School, cum laude, 1997
• B.A., Duke University, magna cum laude, 1994

Admitted

• Georgia