Peter A. Schwartz

Peter Schwartz is a partner in our New York office who focuses on private equity transactions, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions.  His private equity and M&A experience includes leveraged buy-outs, and public and private acquisitions and divestitures.  His corporate finance experience includes a wide range of financing activities, including acquisition finance, secured and unsecured credit facilities, high yield offerings and restructurings.

Representative Matters

Private Equity and M&A

• Charlesbank Capital Partners in a number of private equity transactions, including its purchase of The Princeton Review; its purchase of Peacock Engineering Company; its purchase and subsequent sale of the Efferdent, Luden's and PediaCare brands; and its investment in Universal Technical Institute and subsequent exit via IPO and secondary offerings.
• Enhanced Equity Fund in its acquisition of Primary Care Associates.
• PTMR Capital Partners in its investments in FNB United Corp and Avidbank.
• Perseus, L.L.C. in a number of private equity transactions, including its investment in The Vehicle Production Group; its leveraged buy-out of Haggar Corp.; its acquisition of the Relizon Company; and its sale of Maritime Telecommunications Network.
• Procter & Gamble in the sales of its Thermacare Heatwraps and Noxema businesses.
• The founders of Carrentals.com in the sale of their company to Expedia.
• Pfizer in its acquisitions of Coley Pharmaceuticals and Serenex.
• Thomson Reuters in the sales of its American Health Consultants business unit and a portfolio of healthcare magazines and journals.

• The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in its global debt financings, including first, second and third lien financings, secured and unsecured high yield bonds, and credit facilities in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
• Snow Phipps Group in the secured and mezzanine financings for its acquisitions of ITSolutions, 2020 LLC, NetStar, and Service Champ.
• Private equity funds managed by Neuberger Berman, The Hampshire Companies and Perseus, L.L.C. in subscription credit facilities.
• OrbiMed in financings provided to Bacterin International and Natera, Inc.
• Colbeck Capital Management LLC, in the secured debt financings for Kadman Pharmaceutical.
• Omeros Corporation in the financing by Vulcan Capital of one of its pharmaceutical development programs.
• Paramount Acquisition Corp. in the secured debt financing for its acquisition of ChemRx.
• Touch Tunes Music Corporation in secured and unsecured debt financings.
• Centre Solutions in a loan to Royalty Pharma, secured by a portfolio of pharmaceutical royalties.

Honors and Rankings

• Legal 500 US, M&A - National Firms - Large Deals (2009)
• Legal 500 US, Private Equity Buyouts - Middle Market (2008)

Publications and Speeches

• "Redefining Market Terms," PEI Manager (February 2008), Co-Author
• "Covenant Negotiation Considerations and Compliance Best Practices," Association for Finance Professionals Annual Conference (2007)