Michelle L. Kraus
Associate
Overview
Michelle Kraus is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight's Chicago office. Ms. Kraus focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity transactions and general corporate matters for private equity funds, their portfolio companies and other public and privately held businesses.
Ms. Kraus' transactional experience covers a variety of sectors, including business and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare and transportation. She takes a collaborative, business-oriented approach to each transaction to provide quality client service.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Kraus was an attorney at a global law firm in its Chicago office.
While in law school, Ms. Kraus served as the managing production editor of the Journal of Law and Social Policy.
Representative Experience
- Represented Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of food service packaging and janitorial supplies, in its acquisition of Focus Packaging & Supply Co.
- Represented Hub International in its acquisition of The O&S Insurance Brokerage Group Inc. and OSA Insurance Brokerage Services LLC
- Represented Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of food service packaging and janitorial supplies, in its acquisition of Country Clean Paper Supplies
- Represented Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of food service packaging and janitorial supplies, in its acquisition of Classic Solutions Inc.
- Represented Delta Southern Railroad Inc. in its sale to Patriot Rail Co. LLC
- Represented Hub International Midwest Limited (Hub) in its acquisition of the business of James L. Miniter Insurance Agency Inc.
- Represented Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of food service packaging and janitorial supplies, in its acquisition of Dees Paper Co. Inc.
- Represented Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of food service packaging and janitorial supplies, in its acquisition of Palm Paper Supply
- Represented Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of food service packaging and janitorial supplies, in its acquisition of North Alabama Chemical
- Represented Golden Gate Capital in its sale of PetroChoice Lubrication Solutions for $479 million to Moove, a subsidiary of Brazilian-based Cosan S.A.
- Represented Imperial Bag & Paper Co. LLC d/b/a Imperial Dade in its acquisition of Veritiv Canada
Credentials
- Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, J.D.
- University of Michigan, B.A., Political Science
- Illinois