Steve Kozachok

Steve has extensive experience in private equity, IT and health care transactions. He practices principally in the areas of:

• Mergers and acquisitions.
• Financings.
• Strategic relationships.
• Commercial contracts.
• Entity formation and business planning.
• Corporate governance.
• General corporate and securities law.

Steve has over 25 years of corporate and securities law experience. He practiced as an associate and then partner in the corporate group of a large local law firm for eight years before serving for three years as the associate general counsel for a major medical device company, where he was responsible for M&A, financings, securities law compliance, and reporting and corporate governance matters.

Representative IT-related Transactions Include:

• Sale of Pinnacle Group to Harbor, a portfolio company of Renovus.
• Financing of Leadferno, LLC.
• Sale of Nifty Marketing to ProSites, Inc.
• Sale of GatherUp to Grade Us.
• Sale of Spyder Trap to Bright Health.
• Sale of LuciData to The Newberry Group.
• Sale of Network Instruments, LLC to Thoma Bravo, LLC.
• Sale of Secure Computing Corporation to McAfee, Inc.
• Sale by Secure Computing Corporation of SafeWord network access business to Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd.
• Acquisition by Secure Computing Corporation of Securify, Inc.

Representative Health Care-related Transactions Include:

• Sale of PharmaForce to Aquiline Capital Partners.
• Sale of Bluesight, Inc. to Thoma Bravo.
• Merger of StemoniX, Inc. with publicly-held Cancer Genetics, Inc.
• Representation of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota in the $450 million sale of its Further spending account business to HealthEquity.
• Sale of two orthopedic device companies to Smith + Nephew.
• Sale of a nonprofit hospital and senior care facility to a large, nonprofit health system.
• Acquisitions by UnitedHealth Group entities of:
  • Fidelity Insurance Group.
  • Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc.
  • Golden Rule Financial Corporation.
  • AmeriChoice Corporation.
  • Definity Health Corporation.
  • Spectera, Inc.
  • Lifemark Corporation.
• Acquisitions by St. Jude Medical, Inc. of:
  • Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.
  • EP MedSystems, Inc.
  • A contingent acquisition option for an embolic protection device company.
• Sale of Pulmonetic Systems, Inc. to VIASYS Healthcare (now CareFusion).
• Acquisition of a cutting-edge medical technology company by an S&P 500 client.
• Venture investment by a medical device company in an ablation catheter company.
• PIPE investment by St. Jude Medical, Inc. in Cambridge Heart, Inc.
• Acquisition by Quintiles Transnational Corp. of the assets of Bioglan Pharma, Inc.
• Financing transactions for:
  • Recuro Health, Inc.
  • Phenomix Sciences, Inc.
  • Oncodea, Inc.
  • Ilion Medical, Inc.
  • LifeBridge Innovations, PBC.
  • StemoniX, Inc.
  • Raymedica, Inc.
  • HealthEZ, Inc.
  • EM Vascular, Inc.
  • Virtuel Medical, Inc.
  • Image-Guided Neurologics, Inc.
  • VOCxI Health, Inc.

Representative Private Equity Transactions Include:

• Representation of Electrical Builders Industries in its sale to Pelican Energy Partners.
• Representation of Communications Tower Group I in its partnership with Novacap.
• Purchase by PCM Companies of Suburban Manufacturing, Inc.
• Sale of National Truck Underwriting Managers, Inc. to AmWins Group, Inc.
• Sale of Shur-Co, LLC to Behrman Capital.
• Sale of a manufacturer and value-added distributor of trade show exhibits.
• Sale of a property maintenance services company.
• Purchase and later sale of a shooting target and firearm accessory company.
• Purchase and later sale of a casino chair manufacturing company.
• Purchase of numerous heavy equipment manufacturing companies.
• Purchase of a trucking tarp manufacturing company.
• Purchase and later sale of a wine capsule manufacturing company.
• Purchase of a UK-based arts and crafts company.
• Purchase of a direct mail company.
• Purchase of a taxidermy supply company.
• Purchase of a UK-based cash drawer company.

Representative Emerging Company Clients Include:

• Phenomix Sciences, Inc.
• Oncodea, Inc.
• Lifebridge Innovations, PBC
• Leadferno, LLC
• Ilion Medical, Inc.
• Crotega, L.L.C.
• Surgical Design Innovations, LLC

• Presenter, “Best Practices for Your M&A Playbook,” June 12, 2014