James M. Cavanagh

Jim represents private equity firms, their portfolio companies, and other corporate clients in a variety of transactions. These include mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, debt and equity offerings, minority investments, and reorganizations. Jim also serves as outside general corporate counsel to portfolio companies of private equity clients.

Jim has been involved in significant transactions, such as assisting a security services provider in acquiring a cyber threat detection business and forming a new organization, leading the sale of a municipal waste and recycling services provider, and representing a private equity firm in acquiring a temporary staffing provider for the multifamily residential real estate industry.

• Assisted in advising The Halifax Group in the sale of its majority stake in Southern Exteriors, a full-service installer of exterior building solutions tailored primarily for single-family homebuilders in the southeastern U.S., to Monomoy Capital Partners.
• Assisted in advising IT Solutions Consulting, LLC, a leading managed service provider serving commercial firms, professional institutions, and nonprofit organizations, in its acquisition of The Network Pro, a West Coast-based IT and security service provider, and its acquisition of Spade Technology, an award-winning provider of IT services for the greater Boston area.
• Assisted in advising Nautic Partners, a middle-market private equity firm, on its investment of IT Solutions Consulting, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based managed information technology service provider servicing commercial clients throughout the Northeast.
• Led the representation of IT Solutions Consulting, Inc., a portfolio company of Nautic Partners, in its acquisition of 100% of the ownership interest of CHIPS Technology Consulting Group, LLC.
• Assisted in the representation of Textron Aviation Inc., a subsidiary of Textron Inc., which provides airborne solutions for government, military, and commercial customers, in the acquisition of Mistequay Group, Ltd.
• Assisted in the representation of Millstone Medical Outsourcing and its majority owner Schooner Capital in the sale of Millstone to Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm.

• The Best Lawyers in America®, Ones to Watch, Corporate Law (2024-2026), Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2024-2026)