Kyle Hershey
Kyle T. Hershey
+1.305.789.7502

Overview

Kyle Hershey is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight's Miami office, where he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), dispositions, joint ventures, co-investments and other general corporate matters. Mr. Hershey has a specific focus on private equity-related transactions, including platform acquisitions and sales for private equity funds and add-on acquisitions. Additionally, he routinely represents founder-led and family-owned businesses navigating sales to private equity sponsors and private equity-backed strategic buyers.

Mr. Hershey has successfully represented clients in transactions across a wide range of industries, including consumer services and products, construction and infrastructure, telecommunications, technology, healthcare, and transportation and logistics.

Representative Experience

  • Represented Vanterra Foundation Solutions, a national platform of businesses specializing in foundation repair, basement waterproofing and related services and a portfolio company of Percheron Capital, in multiple add-on acquisitions
  • Represented GetixHealth LLC, a provider of leading revenue cycle management solutions to healthcare providers, in its sale to H.I.G. Capital
  • Represented LMC Landscape Partners, a leading provider of professional landscape management services and a portfolio company of Trivest Partners, in multiple add-on acquisitions
  • Represented American Vinyl Company, a leading manufacturer of custom vinyl extrusions, in its sale to Aurora Material Solutions, a portfolio company of Nautic Partners
  • Represented Premium Utility Contractor, a specialist in electrical transmission, distribution and emergency restoration services, in its sale to PowerGrid Services, a portfolio company of The Sterling Group
  • Represented Trivest Partners, a private equity firm, in its minority growth investment in Captiva Containers LLC, a provider of high-quality, recyclable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging to customers in the food and beverage, nutraceutical and household products categories
  • Represented the founders of UniVista Insurance, a leading distributor of insurance products and services, in connection with a majority investment from GRAM's Americas Buyout Fund, a private equity division of Grupo Romero Asset Management
  • Represented Ness Digital Engineering, a global digital services transformation company and a portfolio company of KKR & Co. Inc., in its add-on acquisitions of Intricity, a leading provider of data strategy, governance modernization and monetization solutions, and Raja Software Labs, a specialist in developing and enhancing high-volume mobile and web applications for leading technology customers
  • Represented Trivest Partners, a private equity firm, in its sale of PeopleShare Inc., a leading temporary staffing firm throughout the eastern U.S., to PROMAN, a family-owned leading staffing firm for the light industrial and construction industries
  • Represented MasTec Inc., a telecommunications and infrastructure construction company, in dozens of strategic acquisitions in the power distribution, wireless telecommunications and energy infrastructure sectors, in the following transactions:
    • $600 million acquisition of Henkels & McCoy, one of the largest U.S. private electrical power transmission and distribution utility services firms and the 14th largest U.S. specialty contractor, according to the 2021 Engineering News-Record ranking
    • $420 million acquisition of INTREN LLC, one of the largest private energy distribution contractors in the country
    • Acquisition of FNF Construction Inc., a provider of heavy-highway construction and general engineering services and a manufacturer of aggregate and asphalt rubber binder
  • Represented Boyne Capital on its acquisition of Ryan Construction Co. Inc. and Ryan Marine Inc., a provider of diversified marine and industrial contracting and maintenance services across the Hampton Roads region of Virginia, along with related add-on acquisitions
  • Represented a financial sponsor in its formation of a management services organization to cardiovascular practices, along with subsequent add-on acquisitions
  • Represented MKH Capital Partners in the sale of its express car wash platform Clean Streak Ventures LLC to Mister Car Wash Inc. for $390 million
  • Represented International Money Express Inc., a leading publicly traded omnichannel money remittance services company, in its acquisition of Envios de Valores La Nacional Corp. (La Nacional) and LAN Holdings Corp.
  • Represented a leading furniture retailer and design company in connection with its sale to Haworth International Ltd.
  • Represented Boyne Capital Management LLC (BCM Fund I LP) in its acquisition of BCM Ameribest Holdings Inc. and its subsidiary, AmeriBest Home Care Inc., a provider of home healthcare services
  • Represented Pine Tree Equity II LP in a variety of transactions, including the sale of Northwest Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries to WestView Capital Partners; the purchase of Federal National Payables Inc., Federal National Commercial Credit Inc. and Federal National Services Inc., providers of factoring (i.e., accounts receivable financing) primarily for businesses with accounts receivable from federal, state and municipal governments; and the purchase of Northwest Plan Services Inc., a third-party benefit plan administrator
  • Represented W Schonbek LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of WAC, in the acquisition of the assets of Swarovski Lighting Ltd.
  • Represented Pine Tree Equity IV LP in its acquisition of Shortridge Academy LLC, a leading therapeutic boarding school in New Hampshire that supports the cognitive, emotional and social development of bright, yet struggling adolescents
  • Represented PeopleShare Inc., a Trivest portfolio company, in its acquisition of Best Practices Staffing, an Illinois-based provider of staffing services
  • Represented Lincoln Road Global Management LLC, a Miami-based private equity firm, in connection with its investment in Pro-Tec Fire & Safety, a leading provider of fire extinguisher and safety services in the Southeastern United States
  • Represented Brenock Technology Inc., a software development and project management company and its equity holders in connection with its sale and 50 percent equity investment to Tideworks Technology Inc.

Credentials

Education
  • University of Miami School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
  • University of Maryland, B.S., Kinesiological Sciences, magna cum laude
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Florida
Honors & Awards
  • The Best Lawyers in America guide, Miami Corporate Law Ones to Watch, 2024; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, 2024
  • Rising Star, Florida Super Lawyers magazine, 2018-2022

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