Press Release 04.04.24
Brandon Eckford focuses on general corporate and securities law matters.
Brandon represents public and private companies in a range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private debt and equity offerings, financing transactions and general business law matters. Brandon assists a wide variety of public and private clients in industries including energy, wine, beer and spirits, health care, manufacturing, e-commerce, real estate, private investment funds, gaming and software. Brandon also assists companies with securities matters and filings, as well as compliance and corporate governance matters.
Brandon also represents wineries, breweries, distilleries, importers, distributors and retailers (on- and off-sale) in transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, alternating proprietorship and contract manufacturing arrangements and brand licensing deals.
Representative Experience
- Represented Sobel Westex, a Colombia-based business group, in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Baltic Linen, a New York corporation. The transaction also included the refinancing of Sobel Westex’s credit facility to provide for acquisition financing.
- Represented Linx S.A., a management software solutions provider, on their $16 million acquisition of Synthesis Group, a software developer and consultancy company.
- Represented Rotunda Capital Partners LLC in its investment in StreetShares Inc., a leading provider of small business loans and government contract financing for businesses owned by members of the military and veterans’ community.
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- Represented a private equity firm in its strategic investment in a manufacturer of bingo games, point-of-sale systems, hall management systems, hand-held electronic gaming devices, and multi-progressive jackpot solution.
- Represented Aveanna Healthcare, the largest pediatric home health care company in the nation, in the acquisition of Premier Healthcare Services, LLC, a leading provider of pediatric services to patients in California, with additional operations in Colorado and Texas.
- Represented one of the nation's largest gastroenterology practices in a sale transaction with ongoing practice agreements with a leading metropolitan hospital.
- Represented a private equity firm specializing in health care investments in the purchase of three health care software companies.
- Represented a mobile edge computing products and services provider in its $7 million Series A financing.
- Represented one of the nation’s largest ophthalmology practices in a sale transaction.
- Represented Grupo Rotoplas A.B. de C.V. (BMV:Agua) in its acquisition of Plasticwatertanks.com Inc., P-M.com Inc. and Nautical Outfitters Corp., the leading water storage tanks e-commerce platform in the United States of America, for 588 million Mexican Pesos.
- Represented McKinley Paper Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grupo Bio Pappel S.A.B. de C.V., Mexico’s largest paper company (Bio Pappel), in connection with the acquisition of a paper mill and certain related assets from Nippon Paper Industries USA.
- Represented Orora Limited (ASX: ORA), an Australian print and lithography company, in the acquisition of The Register Print Group, a U.S. full-service provider of point-of-purchase (POP) retail display and other advertising solutions to blue-chip retailers and brand owners in the United States.
- Represented Hard Rock International in its joint venture with a wholly-owned subsidiary of investor Carl Icahn to purchase Atlantic City's former Taj Mahal. Hard Rock International is the majority owner of the rebranded Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City in partnership with the Morris and Jingoli families.
- Represented CNH Industrial Capital in three separate asset-backed notes financings.
- Represented Stratio Technologies, Inc. in its €13 million Series B financing.
Education
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J.D., Harvard Law School, 2016
B.B.A., University of Miami, 2013
magna cum laude with General Honors, Ronald A. Hammond Scholar
Admissions
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Florida