Leon E. Johnson

Leon Johnson is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group. His practice focuses on representing private equity sponsors and public and private company clients in complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, private equity, growth equity and venture capital investments, leveraged buyouts, and related general corporate counseling.

Leon’s experience includes the representation of:

• Greenbelt Capital Partners in its majority investment in Unirac, a leading designer and manufacturer of solar photovoltaic mounting solutions*
• Thoma Bravo in its $130 million Series D financing round for Alma, a membership-based network that helps independent mental health care providers*
• Thoma Bravo in its $60 million growth equity investment in IAC’s Vivian Health, a healthcare jobs marketplace serving healthcare professionals*
• Thoma Bravo as lead investor in a $100 million Series D financing round in Imply Data, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid. Imply Data delivers the complete developer experience for Druid by developing innovative databases purpose-built for modern analytics applications*
• Thoma Bravo in its investment in Starburst Data, a provider of data access and data analytics*
• Thoma Bravo as lead investor in a $70 million Series C financing round in AppOmni, the leading provider of SaaS security*
• Thoma Bravo as an investor in a $150 million Series D financing round in FalconX, a digital assets platform for institutional investors*
• Thoma Bravo in its $85 million growth equity investment in Personetics, the leading global provider of financial-data-driven personalization and customer engagement solutions for banks and financial services providers*
• Thoma Bravo as a co-lead investor in a $420 million financing round in project44, the leading supply chain visibility platform*
• L Catterton, the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm, in its acquisition of LTP Home Services Group, a leading residential plumbing and HVAC services platform operating in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions*
• Greenbelt Capital Partners as lead investor of a consortium in an investment with Trilantic Energy Partners II North America, Blackstone Credit and Energy Impact Partners in ION Solar LLC, a leading provider of rooftop solar sales and installations*
• Ecwid, Inc., a global eCommerce platform, in its $500 million sale to Lightspeed POS*
• Revolution Prep, a leading national provider of online academic tutoring and test preparation services, in its sale to Apax Digital Fund*
• CVS Kidney Care in its joint venture with Satellite Healthcare to advance the care of patients with kidney disease*
• Pelsis Group, a global manufacturer of pest control products, in its acquisition of a leading manufacturer of pest control products*
• Numerous startup and mature companies in venture capital financings, from seed stage through growth equity rounds*
• Red Wolf Natural Resources in its partnership with Pearl Energy Investments to pursue upstream development and acquisition opportunities focused in the Mid-Continent region and select Rockies basins*
• Longhorn Midstream in its partnership with Old Ironsides Energy to pursue midstream development and acquisition opportunities*
• Discovery Midstream II in its midstream joint venture with Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, which joint venture, Discovery Midstream Holdings II LLC, has secured equity commitments of more than $1 billion*
• A global private equity fund in the confidential acquisitions of two oilfield services companies*
• Savage Companies in its merger with Bartlett and Company and the subsequent Savage Enterprises joint venture, a leading global provider of supply chain and industrial services spanning the agriculture, energy and chemical, and environmental sectors*
• Haymaker Resources and its sponsor, a leading global investment firm, in the $404 million sale of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests to Kimbell Royalty Partners*
• Savage Services in the acquisition of EnviroServe, a specialized waste transportation and disposal services company*
• Warburg Pincus as lead investor in a $350 million convertible preferred equity investment in SemGroup Corporation*
• Tally Energy Services in connection with multiple acquisitions, including Premier Directional Drilling, a provider of directional planning, directional drilling and measurement-while-drilling services; Terra Directional Services, a full-service directional drilling company specializing in horizontal wells for shale projects throughout the United States; and Tech-Flo Consulting, a worldwide supplier of hydraulic lift systems*
• A leading global investment firm in its agreement to acquire with other purchasers $550 million of Series A convertible preferred units representing limited partner interests in NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP)*
• Lionstone Investments, a real estate investment firm, in connection with its sale to an affiliate of Ameriprise Financial Inc.*
• A leading global investment firm in its partnership with Venado Oil and Gas, LLC to consolidate proven assets in the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas*
• The Blackstone Group in its $1 billion capital commitment to Jetta Permian, LP, a Delaware basin-focused oil and gas exploration and production company*
• WL Ross Holding Corp. in its $1.65 billion acquisition from TPG Capital of Nexeo Solutions Holdings, a chemical distribution company*
• EIG Global Equity Partners in its $500 million line of equity commitment to Rice Midstream Holdings, a subsidiary of Rice Energy Inc. engaged in midstream natural gas gathering activities*
• Samson Resources Corporation in its Chapter 11 restructuring in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Samson, a leading onshore oil and gas exploration and production company with headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, held oil and gas assets primarily located in Colorado, Louisiana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. In Chapter 11, Samson successfully executed on six simultaneous asset sales during its restructuring, with an aggregate purchase price of $650 million, and negotiated a global settlement with its major stakeholders, resolving all open issues in its bankruptcy. Samson’s plan of reorganization deleveraged its balance sheet by approximately $4 billion and positioned Samson for future success after emergence*
• SunEdison, Inc. in its $335 million private placement of membership interests in TerraForm Global, LLC, an indirect subsidiary formed to own and operate contracted clean power generation assets in high-growth emerging markets*
• SunEdison, Inc. in its $67.5 million private placement of common stock of TerraForm Global, Inc., an indirect subsidiary of SunEdison*
• Accel Growth Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures in the leveraged acquisition of California Product Shop, Inc. (d/b/a GoFundMe.com), the leading platform for personal milestone fundraising and crowdfunding*
• Francisco Partners and Aesynt Incorporated in the $275 million sale of Aesynt to Omnicell, Inc.*
• TA Associates and Idera in Idera’s acquisition of Embarcadero Technologies, a developer of advanced software tools for application developers and database professionals, from Thoma Bravo*
• Gryphon Investors in its sale of Trinity Consultants to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners*
• Vista Equity Partners in its equity investment in Trintech, the leading global provider of integrated Record-to-Report software solutions*
• Sequoia Capital as lead investor in a $45 million Series C round financing of Namely, Inc., an all-in one HR, payroll and benefits platform*

* Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Leon was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis.