Ethan M. Seery
Associate

Overview
Ethan Seery is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight's Chicago office. Mr. Seery focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity transactions, search fund transactions and general corporate matters for private equity funds, their portfolio companies, and other public and privately held businesses.
Mr. Seery's transactional experience covers a variety of sectors, including business and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare and transportation. He takes a collaborative, business-oriented approach to each transaction with a focus on providing quality client service.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Seery was an attorney at a global law firm in its Chicago office.
Representative Experience
- Represented Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of food service packaging and janitorial supplies, in its acquisition of Focus Packaging & Supply Co.
- Represented a Chicago-based private equity fund in its platform acquisition of a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm, and multiple portfolio company acquisitions
- Represented Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of food service packaging and janitorial supplies, in its acquisition of Country Clean Paper Supplies
- Represented a California-based middle market private equity fund, in its platform acquisition of a compliance solutions provider for finance and insurance products
- Represented Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of food service packaging and janitorial supplies, in its acquisition of Classic Solutions Inc.
- Represented Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of food service packaging and janitorial supplies, in its acquisition of Dees Paper Co. Inc.
- Represented various portfolio companies of a California-based private equity fund in add-on acquisitions
- Represented a private equity firm in multiple portfolio company acquisitions in the healthcare supply chain and telecommunications sectors
- 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 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 The Russell Hall Co., a leading supplier of paper goods and cleaning supplies in the Connecticut marketplace
- Represented Imperial Bag & Paper Co. LLC d/b/a Imperial Dade in its acquisition of Veritiv Canada
- Represented different management teams in equity and employment matters as part of a sale transaction
- Represented the family office of a prominent Chicago businessman in several acquisitions, recapitalizations, joint ventures and other investment activities
Credentials
- The Ohio State University College of Law, J.D.
- University of Michigan, B.A.
- Illinois