David S Felman

Practice Areas

Corporate & Transactional; Mergers & Acquisitions; Securities & Corporate Governance; Joint Ventures & Partnerships; Venture Capital & Private Equity

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association: Federal Regulation of Securities Committee; Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee

The Florida Bar: Business Law Section, Former Chair, Executive Council Member

Florida Venture Forum: Board of Directors, Chairman (2013-2014), Executive Committee

Florida Directors Institute: Founder, Principal organizer

Florida Bar Business Law Section: Section Chair (2000-2001), Chair, Corporations and Securities Law Committee (1992-1994), Chair, Opinions Committee (1998-2000)

Clients

Ballast Point Venture Partners, HealthEdge Investment Partners, Supply Chain Equity Partners, Topmark Partners, Lovett Miller & Co., Vinik Family Office

Career

Dave Felman has practiced banking, corporate, and securities law in Tampa and New York City. His practice principally involves mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, venture capital investments, and representation of public and emerging growth companies. He acts as counsel to many institutional growth equity and private equity investors, including Ballast Point Venture Partners, HealthEdge Investment Partners, Supply Chain Equity Partners, Topmark Partners, Lovett Miller & Co., and Vinik Family Office.

Dave is recognized as a top-tier merger and acquisitions lawyer, acting on both the buy-side and the sell-side, and for both strategic and private equity clients. He often collaborates on deals with major investment banking firms, including recently Raymond James, William Blair, and Robert W. Baird. He regularly advises boards of directors, audit committees and special committees regarding corporate governance matters.

Dave serves as a faculty member of the annual Federal Securities Institute, a two-day program in Miami, and speaks at seminars throughout the United States regarding securities offerings, private equity capital raising transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. He is founder and the principal organizer of The Florida Directors’ Institute, an annual full-day program on corporate governance for public company directors. He is past chair and on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Florida Venture Forum. He chaired The Florida Bar’s Business Law Section, its Corporations and Securities Law Committee, and committees responsible for drafting laws governing Florida corporations and guidelines for legal opinions.

Work Highlights

• Baldwin Risk Partners (Nasdaq: BRP) in numerous strategic add-on acquisitions

• Maverick Boat Group in its acquisition by Malibu Boats, Inc. (Nasdaq: MBUU)

• Coastal Construction Products, a portfolio company of Supply Chain Equity, in its acquisition by Beacon Roofing. (Nasdaq: BECN)

• Apex Service Partners, a portfolio company of Alpine Investors, in numerous strategic add-on acquisitions

• Gulfeagle Supply, in several strategic add-on acquisitions

• Food Ingredient Solutions, in its sale to Oterra, a portfolio company of Summit Capital

• Hissho Sushi in its sale to Brentwood Associates

• American Metals Supply in its sale to MSouth Equity Partners

• Specialty Pharmacy Nursing Network, Inc., a portfolio company of HealthEdge Investment Partners, in its sale to Option Care Health

• HealthEdge Investment Partners in the sale of its stake in Formulated Solutions, LLC to Linden Capital Partners

• Superior Group of Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGC) in numerous acquisitions

• Chris Craft in its sale to Winnebago Industries, Inc. (NYSE: WGO)

• Superior Group of Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGC) in its acquisition of CID Resources, Inc. and other acquisitions

• PowerDMS, a portfolio company of Ballast Point Ventures, in the majority equity investment made by Frontier Capital

• YPrime, a portfolio company of Ballast Point Ventures and Topmark Partners, in its majority recapitalization by Flexpoint Ford

• Symmetry Office, LLC in its sale to Exemplis LLC

• Electric Supply, Inc., in its acquisition by Supply Chain Equity Partners

• Snavely Forest Products in its sale to Weekes Forest Products

• Hirequest (Nasdaq: MQI) in its acquisition of Command Center (Nasdaq: CCNI)

• Global Software in its acquisition by Thompson Street Capital Partners

• Florida Foods in its acquisition by Kainos Capital

• Supply Chain Equity Partners in its acquisition of Coastal Construction Products

• Supply Chain Equity Partners in its acquisition of H.L. Flake Security Hardware

• SRI/Surgical Express (Nasdaq: STRC) in its acquisition by Synergy Health

• Bonds.com in its acquisition by the London Stock Exchange

• Technology Research Corporation (Nasdaq: TRCI) in its acquisition by Coleman Cable, Inc. (Nasdaq: CCIX)

• Dispensing Solutions, Inc., a HealthEdge portfolio company, in its purchase by PSS World Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSSI)

• Aerosonic Corporation (NYSE MKT: AIM) in its acquisition by Transdigm Group Incorporated (NYSE: TDG)

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