Peter N. Dragna

Peter focuses his practice on counseling both public and private companies on a range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and organizational matters across a wide variety of industries, including, financial services, food and beverage, manufacturing, technology, and pharmaceutical and life sciences.

Peter’s mergers and acquisitions practice includes representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies, as well as strategic purchasers and sellers, in public and private mergers and acquisitions, and in investment transactions, including carve-outs, restructurings, and reorganizations.

Peter also maintains an active pro bono practice, regularly advising nonprofit organizations on corporate governance matters.

• Represented Quikrete Holdings, Inc. in its pending $2.74 billion acquisition of Forterra, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed manufacturer of water and drainage infrastructure pipe and products.
• Represented a private equity fund in the $1.25 billion sale of its portfolio company, a provider of industrial cleaning, maintenance, and environmental compliance services, to a publicly traded strategic acquirer.
• Represented one of the largest manufacturers of wire and cable, tools, components, and assembled solutions in the U.S. in the acquisition of an industry leader of electrical fittings, components, and lighting products.
• Represented a global payments leader in the strategic acquisition of a leading provider of electronic payment processing solutions throughout Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Represented Mangrove Equity Partners LP in connection with its acquisition of Vintage Air, LLC.
• Represented Guardian Capital Partners in its sale of Tactical Medical Solutions, a designer, developer, and manufacturer of medical products that equip, train, and protect professionals in pre-hospital, emergency trauma situations, to CNL Strategic Capital.
• Represented a national, discount grocer in its conversion to a wholesale model though the sale of approximately 300 corporate-owned retail locations.
• Represented a leading cloud-based software company serving the community association management section in its investment from a leading investor in European and North American software and services businesses.
• Represented a global payments leader in the strategic acquisition of the merchant services business, along with the related payments software and technology solutions from a large public company.
• Counseled the founding group in the formation of a de novo bank in Georgia.