Holland & Knight Advises Uplift Investors' Orion Legal MSO on Partnership with Bottaro Injury Lawyers
NEW YORK (July 27, 2026) – Holland & Knight's Legal Services Transactions Team represented Orion Legal MSO, a managed services organization (MSO) that supports plaintiff law firms, on its partnership with Bottaro Injury Lawyers, a personal injury firm that practices across Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Orion Legal MSO is owned by Darien, Connecticut-based Uplift Investors, a business model-centric, middle-market private equity firm focused on services investing.
The partnership supports the continued expansion of Orion's national platform, building on its existing partnerships with Dudley DeBosier Injury Lawyers, Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers and, most recently, John Foy & Associates.
Orion will provide Bottaro Injury Lawyers 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. Bottaro Injury Lawyers continues to be 100 percent lawyer-owned.
The Holland & Knight team advising Orion was led by Partners Philippa Balestrieri and Joshua Porte (M&A) and Partner Trisha Rich (Legal Profession Regulation). They were assisted by Associates Madison Houghton, Sarah Caron, Oliver Peglow and Tom Stephenson (M&A); Partner Lindsay Murphy and Associates Rachel Long and Jessica Novey (Executive Compensation & Benefits); Associate Allysan Scatterday (Intellectual Property); and Associates William Ringhofer and Leonard Brahin (Legal Profession Regulation).
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 18th that Holland & Knight has closed in the legal MSO space in 2026.