- Represented the sellers in a $90 million equity sale of a leading national provider of IT services to state and federal government agencies and public safety organizations to a national private equity platform.
- Represented the sellers in a $100+ million equity sale of a prepared specialty foods manufacturer to a national private equity firm as a platform acquisition.
- Represented the seller a $130+ million asset sale of a leading national distributor of helium and other industrial gas products to a publicly traded foreign strategic buyer
- Represented the seller in a $60+ million asset sale of a regional recycling and garbage hauler to a publicly traded strategic buyer.
- Represented a family-owned financial services business with $750 million in assets under management in its sale to a national Registered Investment Advisor and wealth advisory firm.
- Represented a national commercial outdoor maintenance and snow removal contractor in its $135 million sale to a private equity-backed platform.
- Represented a regional education transportation business in its $120+ million acquisition by a private equity-backed platform.
- Frequently represents Dunkin’ franchisees in the purchase and sale of Dunkin’ stores
- Represented a national commercial and residential painting contractor in its purchase of a business unit from a publicly traded conglomerate
Jesse S. Angeley
Director, Corporate Department
Jesse is a Director in the Corporate Department where he serves in the role of outside general counsel to privately-held and family-owned middle market businesses. Jesse regularly represents and advises clients on a wide array of matters, with a significant focus on mergers and acquisitions, business succession planning, corporate governance, entity formation, and strategic advice on corporate risk and liability concerns. Jesse regularly drafts and negotiates complex commercial agreements on behalf of clients, including IT and software related contracts (software as a service (SaaS), technology and software licenses, service level agreements, IT services contracts, software development agreements), joint venture agreements, manufacturing agreements, and distribution and reseller agreements.
Jesse has extensive experience in the middle market mergers and acquisitions space, regularly leading and supporting transactions involving private equity sponsors and strategic buyers, including those representative matters below, with many transactions involving seller and management team equity rollovers and pre-transaction sell-side restructuring.
Prior to joining McLane Middleton in 2015, Jesse was an associate attorney at a North Shore firm serving the legal needs of small and medium-sized businesses and gained extensive business litigation experience on a variety of matters, including employee noncompetition/non-solicitation issues, breach of contract, employee termination, and real estate disputes.
Prior to law school, Jesse worked at the Corporate Executive Board Company (CEB) in Washington, D.C., an international best-practices consulting and executive education organization, providing support to Chief Information Officers and their leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies.
Outside of the office, Jesse loves spending time with his wife and three young children, exploring the outdoors, playing (occasionally) and watching (frequently) golf, and enjoying historical fiction and spy novels and television shows. Jesse also serves as an elected Trustee of the Burlington Public Library.
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Admissions
- Massachusetts: all state courts
- U.S. District Court, First Circuit
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court
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- Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce, Member
- Burlington Public Library, Board of Trustees
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