Neal J. Reenan

About Neal J. Reenan

Drawing on more than two decades of experience, Neal provides strategic counsel to leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies on their most complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (including acquisitions of distressed companies and take-privates), divestitures, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, recapitalizations and restructuring transactions.

A former accountant, strategy consultant and manufacturing executive, as well as the co-founder of a significant, private equity-focused office of a leading global law firm, Neal brings a pragmatic operator’s perspective to delivering legal counsel. He provides the clients he serves with creative, “can-do” and commercially calibrated advice with a focus on solving thorny issues to execute deals. Neal builds enduring, trust-based relationships with clients by delivering technically sound, commercially balanced and situation-tailored counsel by always putting his clients’ needs first, and by bringing a sense of humor and perspective to even the most challenging matters.

Neal also devotes significant time to mentoring junior and first-generation lawyers, especially those who, like himself, are the first in their families to grow up or live in the United States.

Neal is recognized as a leading lawyer for Private Equity: Buyouts by Chambers USA, where clients note he is “excellent and has demonstrated strong commercial and legal judgement.” He is also recognized as a “Notable Practitioner” lawyer for M&A and Private Equity in the US by IFLR1000 and is also recognized for private equity, M&A, cross-border, and fintech in The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America.

Recent work

Healthcare and Life Sciences

• CVC in its $925m global carve-out acquisition of Therakos from Mallinckrodt.
• TPG Growth in connection with its strategic investment in Compass Surgical Partners, an independent full-service ambulatory surgery center (ASC) development and management partner.
• TPG Capital in its acquisition of Confluent Medical Technologies.
• TPG Capital in its investment in Monogram Health.
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its investment in Surgery Partners in connection with the latter’s acquisition of National Surgical Healthcare.
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisition of Air Medical Group Holdings.
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its several tuck-in acquisitions during Bain Capital’s ownership, including REACH Air Medical Services.
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its together with AMGH in the sale of AMGH to KKR.
• Lee Equity Partners in its acquisition of Eating Recovery Center.
• Paragon Bioservices in its sale to Catalent.
• Confluent Medical Technologies in numerous matters.

Financial Services, Fintech and Business Services

• Advisory Research in its sale to Piper Jaffray Companies.
• Amynta Group in its acquisition of American Auto Guardian.
• Alpha AA JV (a joint venture between Ardonagh and Amynta) in the acquisition of AccuRisk, Inc. and the sale of AccuRisk to Ryan Specialty Insurance.
• Apollo Global Management, alongside Athene Holding, in its acquisition of PK AirFinance from GE Capital’s Aviation Services unit.
• Bain Capital Credit (formerly Sankaty) in its acquisition of JP Morgan’s Global Special Opportunities Group.
• CME Group in its joint venture with Dow Jones & Company creating the leading market data and benchmark index services platform (including the Dow Jones Industrial Average).
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of MoneyGram International.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its investment in the acquiring consortium led by the Karfunkel Family and Stone Point Capital in the take-private of AmTrust Financial Services.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of 51% of certain AmTrust Financial Services’s US-based fee businesses to create Amynta Holdings.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of 49% stake in Amynta Holdings. 
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its initial private investment in EVO Payments. 
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its private investment in public equity (PIPE) in EVO.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its creation of Ardonagh and its investment in Towergate Insurance.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of Navacord.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its establishment of Great Gray Trust.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of the Collective Investment Trust servicing business of Wilmington Trust from M&T Bank.
• Madison Dearborn and Nuveen Investments in the sale of Nuveen to TIAA-CREF.
• Northwestern Mutual in its acquisition of LearnVest.
• THL Partners in its investment in Prime Risk Partners.
• Sixth Street Partners in its investment in Exeter Finance.
• TPG (TTAD) in its investment in Acorns.
• THL Partners and Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division in their acquisition of GCA Services from Blackstone.
• GCA Services Group in its sale from THL Partners and Goldman Sachs MBD to ABM.
• Ankura Consulting Group in its acquisition of the Disputes, Forensics and Legal Technology (DFLT) segment and Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) practice of Navigant.
• Great Hill Partners in its acquisition of several legal process outsourcing businesses.
• H.I.G. Capital in the acquisition of the US-based human resource consulting and actuarial business (formerly known as Buck Consultants) of Conduent.
• H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of Mainline Information Systems.

Industrials, Energy and Infrastructure and Energy Transition

• Aquilex Holdings, a portfolio company of Centerbridge Partners, in the sale of its HydroChem industrial cleaning business to PSC Industries, a Littlejohn & Co. portfolio company.
• Bain Capital Private Equity and Consolidated Container Company in the sale of CCC to Loews.
• Bain Capital Private Equity and Unisource Worldwide in the merger of Unisource with xpedx following xpedx’s spin-off from International Paper in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction.
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisition of Apex Tool Group from Danaher and Cooper Industries.
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its carve-out acquisition of Diversey Care from Sealed Air.
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisition of a majority stake in Imperial Dade Intermediate Holdings.
• Centerbridge Partners in its acquisition of IPS.
• Centerbridge Partners in its acquisition of Industrial Container Services from Aurora Capital Group.
• Centerbridge Partners in its investment in Boart Longyear.
• Centerbridge Partners in its restructuring of Boart Longyear.
• Centerbridge Partners in its acquisition, through a debt-for-equity exchange offer, of Aquilex.
• Centerbridge Partners and ICS in the sale of ICS to Stone Canyon-backed BWAY Holding Company.
• Centerbridge Partners and Aquilex in the acquisition by Aquilex of Inland Industrial Services Group.
• Centerbridge Partners and HydroChem in the sale of HydroChem’s SRO business to AZZ.
• CHS Capital in its investment in Gundle Environmental/SLT and acquisition of STS Operating.
• CHS Capital and SunSource Holdings in the sale of SunSource to Littlejohn & Co. and acquisition by SunSource of Warden Fluid Dynamics.
• Hellman & Friedman in its investment in Belron.
• Konica Minolta in the divestiture of certain US manufacturing assets.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in the sale of its interest in UPC Wind Partners to SunEdison.
• Ridgemont Equity Partners in its acquisition of Worldwide Express and the combination of Worldwide Express with Unishippers.
• TPG Real Estate in its investment in Quantum Loophole.
• TPG Rise Climate in its investment in Palmetto Solar.
• TPG Rise Climate in its investment in Climavision.

Technology, Media and Telecoms

• TPG Capital Rise Climate Fund in its investment in Ripple AI.
• Apax Funds in its sale of GlobalLogic and agreement to acquire ThoughtWorks.
• Bain Capital (Europe) in its acquisition of MSX International.
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its take-private acquisition of BMC Software. 
• Bain Capital Private Equity restructuring of Contec Holdings.
• Bain Capital Private Equity restructuring of MC Communications.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its take-private of technology products and services provider CDW.
• Thoma Bravo in its acquisition of Datatel.
• A significant minority investor in its investment in in-flight communication provider Gogo Business Aviation.

Consumer and Retail

• TPG Growth in its investment in BFA/IPSY.
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisition of Bob’s Discount Furniture.
• Centerbridge Partners in its investment in Heartland Food Products Group and the acquisition by Heartland of the Splenda brand and related assets from McNeil Nutritionals. 
• Centerbridge Partners in its acquisition through a negotiated pre-packaged bankruptcy restructuring of Reddy Ice.
• GTCR in the restructuring of Wilton Brands.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of Pierre Foods.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of Bolthouse Foods.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its investment in LA Fitness.
• Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of leading national movie theater chain Cinemark USA.
• Madison Dearborn Partners and Cinemark Holdings in the acquisition of Century Theatres.
• CHS Capital in connection with its ownership of AMF Bowling Worldwide in various matters, including M&A transactions and an international strategic joint venture.
• Source Interlink Companies in divesting non-core assets to Platinum Equity.

*This list includes work that Neal completed while at a prior firm.