Justin Montis

Senior Associate

Santa Monica

Justin Montis is a senior associate in the Santa Monica office and a member of Orrick's M&A and Private Equity Group and Corporate Business Unit.

Justin advises private equity funds and their portfolio companies and other public and private companies on a broad range of strategic transactions, including platform and add-on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, strategic mergers, growth equity investments, dispositions, special situation transactions, secondary transactions and joint ventures. He also counsels clients on various general corporate and governance matters.

  • Representation of the following clients in select transactions:

    • True Wind Capital and Aldaron Partners in their acquisition of DCM Services.
    • Warburg Pincus in various growth equity and M&A transactions.
    • Banneker Partners in various acquisitions and corporate transactions.
    • Turn/River Capital in various acquisitions and corporate transactions.
    • Antin Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of GTL Leasing.
    • Intersect Power in its partnership with Google and TPG.
    • Betterment in its acquisition of Rowboat Advisors.
    • SGS & Co. in its acquisition of the SGK Brand Solutions business from Matthews International Corporation (NASDAQ: MATW) and the related joint venture.
    • Mosaic ML in its acquisition by Databricks.
    • Duetto in its acquisition by GrowthCurve Capital.
    • Intricately in its acquisition by HG Insights.
    • Pelliconi in its acquisition of certain manufacturing assets and real property from Novembal.
    • Codecov in its acquisition by Sentry.
    • MonkeyLearn Inc. in its acquisition by Medallia, Inc.
    • Opstrace in its acquisition by Gitlab (NASDAQ: GTLB).
    • One Codex in its acquisition by Invitae (NASDAQ: NVTA).
    • Atalaya Capital Management in the formation of a private equity vehicle and its investment in OnPoint Warranty Solutions.
    • K1 Investment Management in various growth equity transactions.*
    • Monogram Capital Partners in various growth equity and portfolio company transactions.*
    • Clearlake Capital and its portfolio companies on various M&A transactions.*
    • AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) in its acquisition of Progeny Systems Corporation’s Intelligent Systems Group.*
    • ULTCO in its acquisition by Milarex, an international seafood company owned by Summa Equity.*
    • Sports Information Group, LLC in its merger with Affinity Gaming, each affiliated portfolio companies of Z Capital Group, LLC.*
    • The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (NYSE: GBX) in its acquisition of American Railcar, Inc.’s railcar manufacturing business.*
    • GI Partners and its portfolio companies on various M&A transactions.*
    • Endeavour Capital in its sale of Good Food Holdings, LLC to E-Mart Inc.*
    • Nestlé S.A. in its acquisition of Atrium Innovations Inc. from a group of investors led by Permira funds and the related corporate reorganization.*
    • The Jordan Company and its portfolio companies on various M&A transactions.*
    • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in its acquisition of PrivateBancorp Inc. and the related corporate reorganization.*
    • Kuraray Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of Calgon Carbon Corporation.*
    • CMIG International in its acquisition of the Latin American businesses of Old Mutual PLC.*
    • Franklin Foods in its acquisition by Hochland SE.*

    *Denotes work done prior to joining Orrick

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