Ronnie Skloss
Ronnie Skloss
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Overview

Ronnie Skloss is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight's Austin office. Mr. Skloss focuses on private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and other strategic business transactions in the middle market, as well as for emerging companies and venture capital.

Mr. Skloss leads domestic and cross-border transactions, representing publicly traded and privately held issuers, institutional and individual investors, and entrepreneurs in industry sectors that include software, business and technology-enabled services, healthcare, government contracting, construction, franchised businesses, energy services and consulting services. He has extensive experience advising on numerous private equity and venture capital investments and M&A transactions, with individual values ranging from less than $10 million to more than $9 billion.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Skloss was an attorney at a global law firm in its Austin office.

Representative Experience

  • Representation of buyers and sellers in buyouts and non-control equity investments:
    • $95 million equity investment in a provider of managed care services to the casualty, commercial, disability, government and provider markets, including independent claims review, utilization management, clinical review and independent dispute resolution services
    • $85 million equity investment in a leading national specialty lab providing drug monitoring and molecular testing services for clinicians treating chronic pain, behavioral health and serious mental illness
    • $101 million combined equity and subordinated debt investment in a global provider of digital marketing solutions for advertisers
    • $96 million sale of a leading national provider of diversified behavioral and emotional health and physical disability mentoring, education and living support services
    • $85 million equity investment in a sales and marketing-focused management consulting firm
    • $73 million equity investment in a leading national provider of diversified behavioral and emotional health and physical disability mentoring, education and living support services
    • $70 million equity investment in one of the largest independent direct-to-consumer providers of vehicle sourcing and leasing services in the U.S.
    • $70 million equity investment in a regional civil construction company specializing in excavation, grading, paving and wet and dry utility construction
    • $67 million combined equity and subordinated debt investment in a U.S. government contracting business providing marine, defense, homeland security, first responder and related products and services
    • $66 million combined equity and subordinated debt investment in a large-parcel site development contractor
    • $88 million equity investment and recapitalization of existing equity in a multistate franchisee of a national fitness gym franchise business
    • $40 million equity investment in a full-service real estate title and settlement company
    • $40 million equity investment in a developer, manufacturer and provider of equipment, software and related services for testing, calibration, measurement and management of electricity meters, instruments and electric-utility infrastructure
    • $37 million combined equity and subordinated debt investment in a provider of commercial electrical services and renewable energy engineering, procurement and construction services
    • $34 million equity investment in a professional and technical services firm primarily supporting the U.S. Department of Energy nuclear complex
    • $34 million equity investment in a national janitorial services firm
    • $30 million equity investment in a clinician owned and led physician services management organization
    • $30 million equity investment in a natural gas utility service contractor operating in several Southeastern and Midwestern states
    • $27 million equity investment in a regional operator of skilled nursing facilities
    • $21 million equity investment in a provider of demolition services, interior strip outs and environmental abatement for commercial, industrial and institutional projects

  • Advised on a $60 million sale (for cash) to a private equity buyout fund of the stock of the operating subsidiaries of an international provider of strategy, advertising, marketing, communications, data analytics and public relations services
  • Advised on a $25 million stock sale (for cash) to a strategic buyer of a distressed provider of physical and occupational therapy rehabilitation services, speech pathology services and clinical management software

  • Buyout of a subsurface engineering and construction firm specializing in salt cavern and injection well drilling, workovers, monitoring, mechanical integrity tests, reservoir engineering, carbon dioxide sequestration, lithium reserves evaluations and geological studies
  • $35 million sale to a Swiss fluid engineering and application technology company of a provider of process technologies, engineering services, process equipment solutions, chemicals and catalysts to the chemical, petrochemical, refining and gas processing markets
  • $182 million sale of a Mexican petroleum lubricants subsidiary (with approximately 100 minority shareholders) of a Fortune 30 global energy company to a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)-listed strategic buyer
  • $70 million sale of a regional real estate title insurance agency to a publicly traded national title insurance underwriter
  • Representation of a Nasdaq-listed supply chain management software development company:
    • $9.3 billion acquisition via stock-for-stock merger of another Nasdaq-listed business-to-business e-commerce software development company
    • $380 million acquisition via stock-for-stock merger in a Section 3(a)(10) exempt transaction of a supply chain management software development company
    • $201 million dual contemporaneous acquisitions via stock-for-stock mergers of a developer of demand chain management software for sales, marketing and logistics and a developer of supply chain management software for manufacturing
    • $114 million acquisition via stock-for-stock merger of a business-to-business e-commerce software development company
    • $100 million dual contemporaneous acquisitions via stock-for-stock and cash mergers of a database publisher of maintenance, repair and operations transactional content software and a maintenance, repair and operations content, management and maintenance software development company
    • $97 million cross-border acquisition via stock-for-stock exchange of a Canadian transportation and logistics management software development company
    • $68 million acquisition via stock-for-stock merger of an enterprise relationship management software development company
  • Representation of a Nasdaq-listed semiconductor photomask manufacturer:
    • Sale of a photoblank production facility and business unit to a German buyer
    • Acquisition of the German photomask manufacturing division of a global semiconductor manufacturer

  • Representation of a privately held artificial intelligence (AI) technology company in the negotiation of a joint venture with one of the world's largest aerospace companies to develop unmanned aircraft system traffic management solutions
  • Representation of a privately held oilfield services company with operations in several Western, Southwestern, Midwestern and East Coast states in the negotiation of a Canadian joint venture with an international oilfield services company to deliver frac fluid heating services to customers in Western Canada
  • Representation of a Nasdaq-listed semiconductor photomask manufacturer:
    • Advised on a lithographic semiconductor photomask development and pilot-manufacturing joint venture in Germany with two global semiconductor manufacturers
    • Advised on a strategic alliance with a German glass conglomerate to jointly develop advanced semiconductor photomask blanks
    • Advised on a supply agreement with a German glass conglomerate relating to the manufacture and supply of commercial semiconductor photomask blanks and associated patent and related intellectual property licensing agreements
  • Representation of a Nasdaq-listed telecommunications network management software company in the spinoff of its wireless modem product division

  • Represented numerous companies and investors as counsel in venture capital financings in various verticals, including financial technology (FinTech), pharmaceuticals, software, semiconductors, telecommunications, data management and gaming

Credentials

Education
  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D.
  • The University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., Finance
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Texas
Memberships
  • American Bar Association
  • State Bar of Texas
  • Stephen F. Austin High School Football Booster Club, Treasurer, 2024-Present
  • Pease Park Conservancy, Advisory Board Member, 2012-2018
Honors & Awards
  • The Best Lawyers in America guide, Corporate Law, 2027
  • Stand-out Lawyer, Thomson Reuters, 2023-2024

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