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Alexis Cooper

Alexis Cooper

USA 2026

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ALEXIS COOPER maintains a top-tier private equity practice, having represented a diverse roster of clients across the investment landscape, including Thompson Street Capital Partners, Shoreview Industries, Garrison Investment Group, Allstate Investments, Ares Management, Fort Washington Capital Partners, and CHS Capital. She advises clients on all aspects of M&A transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, take-private deals, secondaries, and continuation funds, regularly guiding sponsors from initial acquisition through exit.

With over 25 years of experience, Alexis is a trusted advisor to private equity sponsors and corporate clients, guiding them through the structuring, negotiation, and execution of leveraged acquisitions, management buyouts, growth equity investments, secondaries, joint ventures, and dispositions of privately held businesses. Her practice spans the upper middle market across a wide range of industries, including technology, telecommunications, insurance, financial services (including fintech), aviation services and infrastructure, consumer products, medical devices, packaging, manufacturing, and distribution services.

Alexis has particular depth in telecommunications and managed technology services, having advised on numerous acquisitions and a continuation fund in the UCaaS, SD-WAN, and connectivity sectors, as well as M&A transactions for telecom operating companies. She also has extensive experience advising financial investors on acquisitions of finance platforms and financial asset portfolios, including joint ventures structured to acquire large-scale consumer finance assets.

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Private Equity: Buyouts - Illinois

Band 4
Band 4

Individual Editorial

Alexis Cooper is an highly respected name in the Illinois private equity market. She represents high profile clients in a broad range of transactions.

Strengths

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  • Alexis is outstanding. She is extremely knowledgeable, confident and experienced. In addition to her unmatched level of expertise and professionalism, she is a pleasure to work with. It is rare to find such a strong combination of skill and approachable style. I highly recommend her without hesitation.

    Private Equity: BuyoutsChambers Guide to the USA
  • Alexis is an exceptional business partner.

    Private Equity: BuyoutsChambers Guide to the USA

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