Josh Soszynski

Joshua Soszynski

Partner
Joshua Soszynski
New York
+1 212 813 8929

Joshua “Josh” Soszynski is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group. Josh has experience representing clients on an array of domestic and cross-border transactional matters, with particular expertise representing private equity funds and their investment professionals and portfolio companies. He has advised clients on public and private company leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, divestitures, growth capital investments, joint ventures, debt and equity financings, corporate restructurings and workouts. His experience spans a variety of industries, notable with respect to asset management, investment advisory, financial services, technology, telecom, digital infrastructure, media, retail and, logistics/transportation services transactions.

Prior to joining Goodwin in 2019, Josh was a partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Experience

Josh's work for private equity funds and their portfolio companies includes representing:

  • Macquarie Capital in numerous matters, including investments into:
    • Future Fiber (GoNetSpeed)
    • Prime Data Centers
    • Velosimo
    • PayIt
    • Simon Data
    • Turning Point Global Solutions
    • Overhaul
    • Jitterbit
    • JOOR
    • Harry’s
  • TA Associates in numerous auctions, acquisitions and other matters, including:
    • the acquisition of Wealth Enhancement Group
    • the acquisition of Fortra (f/k/a HelpSystems)
    • investment in Cliffwater
  • Mobilitie in the sale of its Tower, DAS, and Small Cell businesses to BAI
  • Behrman Capital in its acquisition of Waterline Renewal Technologies
  • Warburg Pincus in its $1.8 billion sale of Coyote Logistics to UPS*
  • DHL in its exit of its North American air cargo business*
  • Advent International in its acquisitions of CCC Information Services Inc. and inVentive Health*
  • Advanced Capital Partners in a consortium acquisition of DolEx Dollar Express from Palladium
  • DolEx Dollar Express in its preferred syndication and acquisition of Barri Financial Services
  • Kingswood Capital Partners in its acquisitions of World Market and Senture
  • Insight Capital Partners in its sale of TurnItIn
  • Lead Edge Capital in its acquisition of Revenue Analytics
  • Lunar X GmbH in its acquisition of Theorist
  • Partners Group in the sale of PCI
  • Rock Mountain Capital in its investment into Pristine Brands
  • GlobalLogic and Apax Partners in the sale of GlobalLogic equity to CPPIB and Partners Group*
  • London Stock Exchange Group plc in its $2.7 billion acquisition of the Frank Russell Company*
  • Apax Partners and Hub International Ltd. in the $4.4 billion sale of Hub to Hellman & Friedman LLC*
  • Apax Partners in its acquisition of GlobalLogic and its dual leveraged acquisition and combination of One Call Care Management and Align Networks*
  • iGATE Corporation in its $1.3 billion acquisition of a majority stake in Patni Computer Systems and the related high-yield bond offering and Indian mandatory tender offer*
  • iGATE Corporation in its $4.04 billion merger with Cap Gemini S.A.*
  • Lincolnshire Management in numerous auctions, acquisitions and dispositions, including with respect to Allison Marine Contractors, High Performance Industries, Diablo Sport, MSD Performance, and Amports, Inc.*

  • TA Associates in its preferred investment into Cliffwater
  • TA Associates and Fortra in the issuance of structured equity to Harvest Partners and others
  • Advance Capital Partners and Diesco Industries Limited in Goldman Sachs preferred equity investment
  • Bregal Sagemount in numerous preferred investments, including:
    • Critical Start
    • TrustArc
  • Lead Edge Capital in its investment into Gupshup
  • Macquarie Capital in its investment into Harry’s Inc.
  • Nutrabolt in its preferred equity issuance to Keurig Dr. Pepper
  • Nutrabolt in its preferred equity investment into Bloom
  • ABRY Partners in its preferred investment in AFS Technologies Inc.*
  • Apax Partners in its $330 million PIPE into iGATE Corp.*

  • Burger King Worldwide Holdings, Inc. and 3G Capital Partners Ltd. in connection with a business combination with Justice Holdings Ltd., resulting in a partial sale of Burger King to the Justice shareholders for $1.4 billion and a New York Stock Exchange listing of Burger King*
  • Saw Mill Capital’s sale of Jason Inc. to Quinpario Acquisition Corp., a blank check company* 

  • Corning in connection with the unwinding of its 73-year-old Dow Corning joint venture with Dow Chemical in a cash rich split transaction *
  • Altman Vilandrie in its merger with Solon, to create international consulting firm Altman Solon
  • Jason Inc. in its 2010 out-of-court restructuring and amendment of existing credit facilities*
  • The Dwyer Group Inc. in its 2013 dividend recapitalization through amendment of its existing credit facilities*
  • CCC Information Services, Inc. in its 2018 dividend recapitalization*
  • RS Energy Group, in its 2017 and 2018 dividend recapitalizations*

  • Lincolnshire Management in the formation of its leveraged buyout fund Lincolnshire Equity Fund IV LP*
  • Audax Group in the formation of its mezzanine debt fund Audax Mezzanine Fund III LP*
  • WAFRA Investment Advisory Group, Inc. in connection with its formation of Capital Constellation LP*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Professional Activities

Member, New York State Bar Association and American Bar Association

Member, Private Equity Editorial Advisory Board, Law360 (2016, 2017)

Member, New York Private Equity Network

Credentials

Education

JD2007

Georgetown University Law Center

BABiology2004

Syracuse University

Admissions

Bars

  • New York

Publications