In 2011, the K&L Gates Carolinas corporate practice posted another busy year as our clients were active in a wide variety of strategic and capital markets transactions.

We are excited about the December 2011 addition of our new office in Charleston, South Carolina, with 14 attorneys including corporate partner Jamie Bruce. Our Carolinas corporate practice is now spread across four offices—Charleston, Charlotte, Raleigh and Research Triangle Park. We are pleased to share with you some of our notable client transactions from 2011:

Private Equity and Mezzanine Finance

We assisted numerous investment funds in an array of leveraged acquisitions, financings, recapitalizations, divestitures and other transactions, including:

• BIA Digital Partners in its $13.5 million structured debt and equity investment in Cooking.com, an ecommerce company.
• CapitalSouth Partners in its leveraged acquisition of Navis TubeTex, a manufacturer of textile finishing machinery.
• Carousel Capital in its sale of Driven Brands, the parent company of franchisors Maaco Collision Repair & Auto Painting and Meineke Car Care Centers.
• Colville Capital and its portfolio company McCoy Holdings, an industrial distributor of fluid connectors, fluid power equipment and related products, in the add-on acquisition of Fluid Connector Products.
• Copeley Capital in its divestiture of Roll-Rite, a supplier of tarping systems for trucks...

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