Profil
Curt Ostosh represents private equity sponsors and strategic investors in complex M&A transactions, including take-privates, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, and 363 sale transactions. He advises clients across the deal lifecycle, add-on acquisitions, strategic investments, and general corporate matters.
Curt brings a practical, business-oriented perspective shaped by a secondment as in-house counsel with a major private equity sponsor and prior experience leading treasury and corporate development functions at a Fortune 100 retail holding company. This background allows him to anticipate client priorities and navigate transactions with a focus on execution, risk management, and value creation.
He also counsels portfolio companies on strategic investments, add-on acquisitions, and hybrid capital transactions, and advises on distressed M&A matters. His experience spans multiple sectors, including health care, life sciences, and infrastructure, enabling him to guide clients across a range of deal structures and market conditions.
Curt is a certified mediator in Illinois. Following law school, Curt served as a Public Interest Law Initiative graduate fellow with the Center for Conflict Resolution, where he oversaw a team of volunteer mediators.
Concentrations
- Private equity
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Distressed M&A and special situations
- Structured equity and hybrid capital strategies (including convertible preferred equity, convertible debt, warrants (including pre-paid warrants) and hybrid instruments)
- Portfolio company transactions
Kluczowe Praktyki
Doświadczenie
- Represented Ancient Financial on its launch as a specialized reinsurance and asset management platform focused on the life and annuity sector and in connection with its agreement to acquire F&G Life Re Ltd from F&G Annuity & Life, Inc.°
- Represented Global Container International, a leading lessor of marine intermodal containers, in its acquisition by Triton International Limited, the world’s largest lessor of intermodal freight containers, for a total transaction value of over US$1 billion (including outstanding debt).°
- Served as U.S. legal advisor for affiliates of American Industrial Partners Capital Fund VIII in its acquisition of publicly listed global drilling services leader Boart Longyear Group Ltd.°
- Represented Harvest Partners, LP in its acquisition of Road Safety Services, Inc. from Parallel49 Equity.°
- Represented Gauge Capital LLC in its partnership with Craftable, a leading SaaS platform for the hospitality industry.°
- Represented CIVC Partners in its strategic investment in Nationwide Legal, a premier provider of litigation support services.°
- Represented Bonaccord Capital Partners in its passive minority investment in Kingswood Capital Management, LP.°
- Represented TowerBrook Capital Partners, L.P. in its strategic investment in Amylu Foods, a manufacturer of all-natural, value-added protein.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Ostosh prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Graduate Fellow at the Center for Conflict Resolution, Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI), 2018
- Certified Mediator, Center for Conflict Resolution, 2018
Wyróżnienia i aktywność zawodowa
- Volunteer Mediator, Center for Conflict Resolution, 2018-Present
Wykształcenie i uprawnienia do wykonywania zawodu
- J.D., cum laude, Senior Research Honors, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
- M.B.A., Northwestern University
- B.S., Finance and Economics Concentrations, cum laude, Babson College
- Illinois