Holland & Knight Advises Uplift Investors' Orion Legal MSO on Partnership with John Foy & Associates
NEW YORK (June 17, 2026) – Holland & Knight's Legal Services Transactions Team represented Orion Legal MSO, a managed services organization (MSO) that supports plaintiff firms, on its co-founding partnership with John Foy & Associates, a personal injury law firm that practices across Georgia. Orion Legal MSO is owned by Darien, Connecticut-based Uplift Investors, a middle-market private equity firm with a business model-centric focus on services investing.
The partnership supports the continued expansion of Orion's national platform, building on its founding partnership with Dudley DeBosier Injury Lawyers and, most recently, Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers. As part of the transaction, John Foy, the firm's founder and CEO, will also become a member of Orion's National Advisory Board, a forum for partner firms to help guide strategy and operations across the platform.
Orion will provide John Foy & Associates with non-legal operational support services, including marketing, finance, technology, talent and administrative infrastructure, designed to enable attorneys to focus on their clients and legal outcomes. John Foy & Associates remains 100 percent owned by John Foy, who will continue to direct the firm's legal practice.
The Holland & Knight team advising Orion was led by Partner Trisha Rich (Legal Profession Regulation) and Partners Joshua Porte and Chrystie Holmstrom (M&A). They were assisted by Partner Kristin Ornstein and Associates Remy Farkas and Gabrielle Engel (M&A); Partner Lindsay Murphy and Associates Rachel Long and Jessica Novey (Executive Compensation & Benefits); Senior Counsel Thu Lam and Associate Christine Younger (Tax); Associate Harshita Rathore (Regulatory); Associate Allysan Scatterday (Intellectual Property); Associate Jasmin Hampton (Real Estate); and Associate Lee Sands (Labor & Employment).
More information on the transaction can be found here.
Holland & Knight's Legal Services Transactions Team is supported by nearly 50 lawyers spanning corporate, mergers and acquisitions, finance, legal ethics, legal regulation, tax, employment, venture capital, fund formation and related disciplines. The team's work spans the full life cycle of legal services transactions, from initial structuring through execution and operational implementation. This transaction marks the 17th that Holland & Knight has closed in the legal MSO space in 2026.