Jeffery D. Peters

Jeff has more than 22 years of experience handling business and private equity transactions. He represents private equity funds in complex leveraged buyout, mezzanine lending and recapitalization transactions. He also represents clients in a wide range of commercial transactions, including business formation and capitalization, debt and equity financings, acquisitions and dispositions, contract negotiations and complex real estate and equipment leases. He is a Director of the firm and a member of the Business, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Private Equity Practice Groups.

Experience

His experience includes structuring and negotiating all aspects of leveraged buyouts, mezzanine lending and recapitalization transactions, including the underlying acquisition, senior and mezzanine financing, equity co-investments, management employment and investment terms.

Jeff has served as general counsel for numerous portfolio companies and has experience in workouts involving troubled portfolio corporations. He also serves as counsel to fund principals in connection with fund formation and ongoing fund management issues.

His representative clients have included:

• PNC Equity Partners (a private equity fund focused on leveraged buyouts and equity investments);
• PNC Mezzanine Partners (a private equity fund focused on mezzanine lending and equity investments);
• Gladstone Investment Corp. (a publicly traded business development company focused on senior and mezzanine lending and equity investments, including ``one-stop’’ acquisitions where it provides the entire capital structure); and
• The Receivable Management Services Corp. (a major provider of debt collection and receivable management services to businesses in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Hong Kong).