McGuireWoods LLP

Legal· USmcguirewoods.com

We represent independent sponsors and their capital partners in majority and minority equity investments. The firm understands how the dynamics of independent sponsor transactions affect issues like tax structure and economic sharing, alignment of sponsor and investor interests, exit strategy and more.

Independent sponsor deals
26
All observed deals
37
Sponsor clients
17
Repeat clients
5
Latest deal
Jul 27, 2026
LegalStates an independent sponsor practice
No date on record · this record

60 additional professionals, 73 additional client and capital relationships, 34 additional observed deals, 19 signals and event appearances

Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.

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Independent sponsor relevance

26 independent sponsor deals for 17 sponsors, 5 of them more than once. Apr 15, 2016 to Jul 27, 2026; 5 in the last 12 months. 9 of these rest on medium confidence evidence and are labelled. It is on 37 observed deals in all; on the other 11 the buyer was a strategic acquirer or a lender, not an independent sponsor.

What the record adds up to
  • Activity surge McGuireWoods LLP: 4 observed independent sponsor deals in the last 6 months, against 5 in the prior 24 months · Jul 27, 2026
  • New specialist Jon Neal (McGuireWoods LLP) is new to independent sponsor deals: first observed 2026-04, 3 observed deals since · Jul 27, 2026
  • New specialist Donald Kwasigroch (McGuireWoods LLP) is new to independent sponsor deals: first observed 2026-04, 2 observed deals since · Jul 27, 2026
  • Exeter Street Capital Partners has used McGuireWoods LLP as counsel on 5 of 7 observed transactions where its counsel is known, since 2023. deal 1 · deal 2 · deal 3
  • Tygon Peak Capital has used McGuireWoods LLP as counsel on 3 of 3 observed transactions where its counsel is known, since 2018. deal 1 · deal 2 · deal 3
  • Seven Hills Capital has used McGuireWoods LLP as counsel on 2 of 2 observed transactions where its counsel is known, since 2018. deal 1 · deal 2

33 more facts and signals are on record for this page. They name the firms involved and open with Independent Sponsor Intelligence.

Recent transactions
  1. Aug 5, 2026Buyer counselEquity investor counselBuyer not an independent sponsor
    Collaborative Capital Management and Reliable Towing Holdings Ltd. deal team
    Buyer counsel for Access Holdings · Aug 5, 2026
    PR Newswirepublished Aug 5, 2026
  2. Jul 27, 2026Sponsor counsel
    Exeter Street Capital Partners and Price Circuits LLC deal team
    Sponsor counsel for Exeter Street Capital Partners · Jul 27, 2026
    McGuireWoodspublished Aug 4, 2026
  3. Apr 29, 2026Buyer counselSponsor counsel
    Exeter Street Capital Partners and Sheer Service deal team
    Buyer counsel · Apr 29, 2026
    McGuireWoodspublished Aug 4, 2026
This firm's deals in the deals index
Which sponsors they work with
Capital providers on the same deals
Other relationships on record
Seen at

9 more appearances on record, open with Independent Sponsor Intelligence.

Key professionals

Who did the work, by the deals they are named on.

Sector experience
Deal size

No deal on record stated a value.

Geography

Offices: Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, Richmond. Deal companies in PA 3, TX 3, CA 2, FL 2, NJ 2, AZ 1, IL 1, MI 1, MN 1, MO 1.

Relationship network
Contact

Website mcguirewoods.com. Contact details for named professionals open with the product, the same way as on every other record.

Who to call
the organisation, the role and the published line, with the filing or website that published it; revealed to signed-in accounts

Also named here, with no published line of their own (reach them through the firm): C. Caroline Grier Kraich (Partner), Shahrooz Shahnavaz (Partner), Stuart M. Rasley (Partner).

Who to call is the organisation, the person's role and the line they published themselves: a business phone, office address, website or profile link from Form ADV, Form 13F or their own website, with that source named on every value. The counts above are what a reveal returns; a personal email is rarely published, so most reveals are the firm's line. Never data bought from a provider, never anything personal. Reveals by plan

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