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McGuireWoods advised longtime private equity client Summit Park in the recent acquisition of Thrust Flight, a professional flight training services company. For the deal, Summit Park partnered with Thrust co-founder and CEO Patrick Arnzen, senior management team members and AltitudeX Aviation, a firm of former senior aviation executives focused on middle market investments. Headquartered in Addison, Texas, Thrust is a flight training school serving aspiring professional pilots. It offers students access to a modern …

McGuireWoods advised longtime private equity client Summit Park in its majority recapitalization of Michelli Weighing & Measurement, a provider of calibration, maintenance, inspection, and installation services and products. Headquartered in New Orleans, Michelli has operations in over 30 locations across the Southeast, Texas and the West Coast. The company services more than 6,000 customers across end markets including transportation, recycling and waste, food and beverage, energy, aggregates, agriculture and manufacturing. In 2023, McGuireWoods advised Summit …

McGuireWoods advised private equity client Summit Park and its portfolio company United Structural Systems (USS) in USS’s acquisition of Ox Foundation Solutions, a residential foundation repair and waterproofing services provider.USS provides foundation repair, crawl space repair and basement waterproofing services to residential homeowners in Middle Tennessee, Southern Kentucky and Northern Alabama, as well as to commercial customers throughout the country. Summit Park invested in USS in February 2023.Partner H. Ramsey White III …

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McGuireWoods advised private equity firm Summit Park in its recapitalization of Elliott Aviation, a family-owned aviation services company headquartered in Illinois. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Summit Park invests across a variety of sectors, including business and consumer services, light manufacturing and value-added distribution. McGuireWoods has represented Summit Park in all four platform investments in its current fund, Summit Park III, which closed in 2018 with $245 million of capital commitments. Lawyers from …

McGuireWoods advised SunFunder in closing a $42.5 million capital commitment for its Solar Energy Transformation (SET) Fund, which will finance high impact solar energy projects and companies in emerging markets. Investors in the fund’s first closing included the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Calvert Impact Capital, Ceniarth and the IKEA Foundation.SunFunder is a solar energy finance business working to scale clean energy access in Africa and Asia by financing solar companies active …

Partner Christian Brose was one of several vice chairs leading an ABA-sponsored task force that drafted the Model Intercreditor Agreement and accompanying Task Force Report published in the May 2010 edition of The Business Lawyer. The task force worked to develop a balanced, market-based model form of intercreditor agreement to balance the interests of the holders of first lien and second lien debt. In addition to helping lead drafting sessions and working on …