Profile
Zachary M. Schlichter focuses his practice on middle-market and lower middle-market mergers and acquisitions, with an emphasis on private equity transactions. He represents private equity sponsors, family offices and their portfolio companies in platform acquisitions, add-on acquisitions and exits, and represents founder- and family-owned businesses in sales to private equity buyers. Zach routinely works on both the buy side and the sell side, and his practice is roughly evenly divided between the two.
Since 2019, Zach has helped clients with more than 150 transactions in the home services industry, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, lighting and pool services businesses. He has served as long-term deal counsel to several private equity-backed home services platforms, handling dozens of add-on acquisitions for individual platforms. His industry experience also includes industrial and manufacturing companies, such as metal foundries, die casters, fabricators and OEM parts suppliers, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses, where he regularly represents sellers.
Zach takes a practical, business-minded approach to each transaction, staffing deals efficiently and moving at the pace the deal requires. He holds a B.S. in biomedical engineering, a technical background he draws on when advising industrial and technology clients.
Concentrations
- Private equity mergers and acquisitions
- Buy-side and sell-side M&A for middle-market and lower middle-market companies
- Add-on acquisitions and buy-and-build strategies
- Sales of founder- and family-owned businesses
- Distressed and special situations M&A
- Corporate governance and general corporate law
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주요 경력
- TurnPoint Services - Representation of TurnPoint Services, a residential HVAC, plumbing and electrical services platform backed by Trivest Partners and later OMERS Private Equity, in more than 50 add-on acquisitions of home services businesses nationwide (2019-2025).
- Trivest Partners - Representation of Trivest Partners, a Florida-based private equity firm, in its sale of TurnPoint Services to OMERS Private Equity, the private equity investment arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (2020).
- Air Pros - Representation of Air Pros, a residential HVAC and plumbing platform, in its sale through a restructuring (2025). The transaction was recognized as "Special Situations M&A Deal of the Year" at Global M&A Network’s Turnaround Atlas Awards (2026).
- Air Pros - Representation of Air Pros in its acquisitions of 15 HVAC and plumbing businesses nationwide (2021-2024).
- Atlantic Street Capital / Pool Centurion - Representation of Atlantic Street Capital, a private equity firm, in its acquisition of Pool Centurion Group, a pool services platform (2022). Also representation of Pool Centurion in its acquisitions of 10 Florida-based pool services businesses (2022-2026).
- Vertex Service Partners - Representation of Vertex Service Partners, a private equity-backed roofing platform, in its acquisitions of 13 roofing businesses (2024-2025).
- John C. Cassidy Air Conditioning - Representation of John C. Cassidy Air Conditioning, a Florida-based HVAC services company, in its acquisitions of 11 HVAC and plumbing businesses (2023-2026).
- Exuma Partners - Representation of Exuma Partners, a private equity firm, in its acquisitions of and investments in home services businesses, including Action Roofing and American Service Partners (2023-2026).
- Representation of the founder-owners of more than 40 residential HVAC, plumbing, roofing and home services businesses in their sales to private equity-backed platforms (2021-2026).
- MiddleGround Capital Partners - Representation of MiddleGround Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on industrial and specialty distribution businesses, in its acquisitions of Peterson American Corporation and Banner Precision (2019), SixAxis (2022), A.M. Castle & Co. and Megatech (2023), and Pace Industries and Dalton Foundry (2026).
- MiddleGround Capital Partners - Representation of MiddleGround Capital Partners in its sales of Peterson American Corporation and Banner Precision (2023) and Arrow Tru-Line (2025). Zach represented MiddleGround in the original acquisitions of Peterson American and Banner Precision.
- MiddleGround portfolio companies - Representation of MiddleGround portfolio companies in multiple add-on acquisitions and divestitures (2019-2026).
- 626 Holdings - Representation of 626 Holdings, a founder-owned medical imaging equipment service and repair company, in its sale to an affiliate of Peak Rock Capital (2021).
- Can't Live Without It (S’well) - Representation of Can’t Live Without It, LLC (d/b/a S’well Bottle), a designer, wholesaler and retailer of reusable, vacuum-insulated products, in the sale of its business and certain assets to Lifetime Brands, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCUT) (2022).
- Rose & Associates - Representation of Rose & Associates, a SaaS provider to the oil and gas industry, in its sale to Computer Modelling Group Ltd. (TSX: CMG) (2026).
- Ion Wave Technologies - Representation of Ion Wave Technologies, a SaaS provider of public-sector procurement and special education software, in its sale to GTY Technology Holdings (2023).
- Centavo - Representation of Centavo in its seed, Series A and Series B financings (2022-2025).
- Justice Holdings Limited - Representation of Justice Holdings Limited, a special purpose acquisition company, in its £900 million initial public offering and its $4.9 billion acquisition of Burger King Worldwide Holdings, Inc.
- Platform Specialty Products Corporation - Representation of Platform Specialty Products Corporation (NYSE: PAH) in its $1.8 billion acquisition of MacDermid, Incorporated, a global producer of high-technology specialty chemical products.
- Jarden Corporation - Representation of Jarden Corporation in its approximately $1.8 billion acquisition of Yankee Candle Company.
- Azteca Acquisition Corporation - Representation of Azteca Acquisition Corporation in its $415 million merger with Hemisphere Media Group, Inc., InterMedia Español Holdings, LLC and Cine Latino, Inc.
- Representation of a Spanish bank in its $159.5 million acquisition of a Miami-based regional bank.°
- Representation of a private equity group in a public-private partnership to construct, redevelop and operate 27 highway service plazas in Connecticut.°
- Representation of a concessionaire in securing $149 million in financing for the construction and operation of a toll road in the Dominican Republic.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Schlichter prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
수상 및 주요 활동
- Member, Winning Team, Global M&A Network’s Turnaround Atlas Awards, “Special Situations M&A Deal of the Year” for the Air Pros Solutions Chapter 11 restructuring and sale, 2026
- Listed, South Florida Legal Guide, “Top Up-and-Comer,” 2020-2021
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Florida Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2013-2023
- Member, Winning Team, ACG New York Champion's Award, “Consumer and Retail Products Deal of the Year (over $200mm)” for the merger of Burger King and Justice Holdings Ltd., 2013
- Selected, Daily Business Review, “Top Dealmaker of the Year - Corporate Finance Category,” 2013
- Finalist, Daily Business Review, “Top Dealmaker of the Year - Corporate International Category,” 2013
- Team Member, Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting Inc., one of “America's Best Corporate Law Firms,” 13th Annual Legal Industry Study, 2013
- Finalist, Daily Business Review, “Most Effective Lawyers,” 2009
학력 및 자격사항
학력
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J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School
- Certification in Law and Business
- B.S., Biomedical Engineering, with honors, University of Miami
자격
- Florida