Dennis P. O'Reilly

Dennis O’Reilly is a partner in the firm’s Private Equity group and a member of its Technology and Emerging Companies practice. Dennis represents clients in a broad variety of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, venture capital and growth equity financings, corporate governance, direct secondary transactions and, private tender offers, reorganizations, recapitalizations, joint ventures and general business counseling. He has represented clients in various industries, including technology, finance, retail, manufacturing, industrial, insurance, communications, education, energy and healthcare.

Dennis's work for private equity, growth equity and venture capital funds and their portfolio companies as well as strategic investors, acquirers and sellers includes representing:

• Growth equity investors such as:
  • Mutual funds and alternative asset managers with investments in private companies including Airtable, Alliant, Ant Financial, Byju, Bytedance, Canva, Cross River Bank, Datadog, Instacart, IQHQ, Juul, Hub International, Lightmatter, Nerdwallet, Paytm, Rad Power Bikes, Seismic, Snowflake, Socure, Stripe, Torchy's, WeWork and Xometry. 
  • DST Global and affiliates in their growth equity investments in Acorns Grow, Arista Networks, Auto1, Blockchain.com, Boxed.com, Brex, Clara, DraftKings, Faire, Flexport, Greenlight, GreenSky, LendingClub, Meituan, OTOY. Sunday and Trumid.
  • JMI Equity in its investments in Huntress Labs and automotiveMastermind and its sale of Studer Group to Huron Consulting. 
  • Accel Partners in its investments in Blackpoint Cyber, CData, Lower.com, CartoDB.
  • Bregal Sagemount, Durable Capital, Lone Pine and VY Capital in various growth equity investments.
  • Various life sciences investors in ProfoundBio, LianBio, Orca Bio and gene-editing technology companies. 

• Private equity sponsors and strategic acquirers such as: 
  • The Halifax Group in its leveraged buyouts of Universal Air Conditioner, Harmar Mobility, 101Mobility, Milestone Technologies, Truvant, Burke Playgrounds. 
  • Ridge Capital Partners in its leveraged buyout of Zamma Corporation.
  • WisdomTree Investments Inc. with the acquisition of Boost ETP and ETF Securities and its strategic investments in Securrency and AdvisorEngine.
  • GTT Communications Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Interoute Communications S.A.
  • Tata Communications Ltd. in its sale of a majority stake of its data center businesses in India and Singapore.
• Secondary transaction firms including Southern Cross Group in its GP-led restructuring of Fund IV,  Infraestructura Institucional in the sale of its general partner to BlackRock and various mutual funds in their crossover investment in StepStone Group.
• Growth stage companies Heyday, Fundrise and Soludos in various financing transactions.
• Various sell-side representations including the sale of Wincore Windows & Doors to Fernweh Group, American Mortgage Consultants to Stone Point Capital, Collect Rx to New Capital Partners, TrackMaven to Skyword and Celcite Management Solutions to Amdocs.

Dennis's recent experience with impact investing and benefit corporations includes representing:

• GEF Capital Partners in its acquisitions and investments in Next Step Energy Solutions, Civic Renewables, Polargy, InSite, Murf Electric Bikes, EnviroMix, Gro-Well, and Bluesource (now Anew).
• Danone Manifesto Ventures and private equity sponsor portfolio companies in their conversions to benefit corporations and their B Corp certifications.
• Impact funds and other companies with social or environmental concerns regarding structuring as or investing in benefit corporations and other similar entities, and obtaining B Corp certification.

Dennis has dedicated time to advancing benefit corporation legislation and drafting related publications. He is a member of the American Bar Association.