David Mansberg

David’s practice focuses on advising private equity funds and their portfolio companies, as well as strategic public and private companies, on a range of complex corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, growth equity financings, preferred and structured equity investments, carve-outs, business combinations and divestitures. He represents buyers and sellers across a diverse range of industries, including technology, software as a service (SaaS), healthcare, fintech, digital infrastructure, manufacturing and consumer products.

David’s representative transactions include representing:

Private equity transactions

• TA Associates in its:
  • Acquisition of Stonewall Kitchen*
  • Sale of its equity interests in Wealth Enhancement Group to the Onex Corporation*
  • Acquisitions, via its portfolio company, Cyncly, of Mozaik Software, Mobile Marketing and Broadlume*
• Great Hill Partners in its:
  • Majority recapitalization of Clearwave*
  • Sale of Vatica to Frazier Healthcare Partners*
• Primus Capital Partners in its:
  • Acquisition of CORL Technologies*
  • Acquisition of Meditology Services*
  • Acquisition of With Reach*
• Towerbrook Capital Partners in its acquisition of LiftWerx*
• Marlin Equity Partners in its sale of Talkwalker to Hootsuite*
• Berhman Capital in its acquisitions of Shur-co and all assets of R&D Wood*
• Frazier Healthcare Partners in its acquisition, via its portfolio company, Comprehensive Pharmacy Solutions, of Trellis*
• Kingswood Capital Management in its sale of Senture to Teleperformance*
• Sunstone Partners in its sale of its equity interests in NetSPI to KKR*

Strategic M&A

• Avery Dennison Corporation in its acquisition of the flooring adhesives business of Meridian Adhesives Group
• Mobilitie in its sale to BAI Communications*
• DolEx Dollar Express in its acquisition of Barri Financial Group*
• Spectrum AI in its sale to CentralReach*
• Decode_M in its sale to the Penta Group*
• Skimmer in its sale to Mainsail Partners*

Structured equity and minority investments

• Macquarie Capital in its:
  • Preferred investment, subsequent follow-on investment and subsequent secondary sale of equity interests in Prime Data Centers*
  • Preferred investment in Surf Internet*
• Lead Edge in its Series D investment in LaunchDarkly*

* Representation handled prior to joining Cooley

Before joining Cooley, David was a private equity attorney for a global law firm, based in its New York office.