Nicholas A. West
Nicholas A. West
Nicholas A. West
Biography
Nick West is a partner in the firm's M&A and Corporate Finance group with extensive experience in middle-market mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions. Nick regularly advises private equity firms on the acquisition and disposition of portfolio companies, including platform acquisitions and dispositions and roll-up acquisitions. Nick also advises public companies and private buyers and sellers on complex business transactions, including cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, asset and stock sales, carve-out transactions, equity and debt financings, venture investments and alternative investments, and joint ventures. Beyond transactional work, Nick’s clients rely on his counsel for all aspects of operating and growing their businesses, from corporate structuring to compliance, governance, and complex commercial contracts.
Nick’s clients operate across various industries, including agribusiness, manufacturing, healthcare, and energy, enabling Nick to provide comprehensive legal support for each client. Nick has built lasting partnerships with corporate executives, private equity firms and business owners by integrating his legal expertise with financial, operational and technological strategies to drive business success.
While in law school, Nick worked in the in-house legal department of a Fortune 500 manufacturing company located in St. Louis, Missouri and an investment bank located in Manhattan, New York. These experiences, together with his background in accounting and finance, give Nick a business-focused approach to serving clients’ legal needs.
Nick received his Juris Doctor with honors from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, where he was an Articles Editor and Staff Editor for the Washington University Law Review.
Admissions
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Missouri, 2017
Education
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Washington University in St. Louis, J.D., cum laude, 2017
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Saint Louis University, B.S., magna cum laude, 2014
Related Capabilities
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M&A & Corporate Finance
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Corporate
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Healthcare & Life Sciences
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Infrastructure
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Energy Transition
Experience
Representations include:
- Represented a family office focused on agribusiness and cattle feeding investments in a joint venture transaction with a regional cattle feeding operation.
- Represented one of North America’s largest commodity trading companies in its acquisition by a publicly-traded agribusiness.
- Represented a private equity firm focused on agribusiness and food supply chain investments in an exit sale of its food manufacturing portfolio company to a strategic buyer.
- Represented an international agribusiness cooperative in its sale of a milk powder processing facility.
- Represented a private equity firm focused on agribusiness and specialty crop investments in its acquisition of a proprietary seed company.
- Represented a publicly traded insurance company in its acquisition of a speciality pharmacy.
- Represented a publicly traded insurance company in its acquisition of an insurance lead company.
- Represented a healthcare technology company focused on risk adjustment and patient care quality solutions in its majority sale to a private equity firm.
- Represented a publicly traded medical device manufacturer in its acquisition of a sports medicine company.
- Represented a private equity sponsored real estate technology company in roll-up acquisitions of real estate software companies.
- Represented a national construction solutions company in its acquisition of a specialty contractor and construction material manufacturer.
- Represented a private equity sponsored power generation platform in its acquisition of a renewable energy portfolio.
- Represented a family office in its acquisition of an international telecommunications company.
- Represented a private equity firm focused on energy infrastructure investments in its acquisition of a renewable energy project development company.
- Represented a renewable energy technology and infrastructure company in a venture financing round.
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