About Mr. David R. Yates

David R. Yates advises clients on international and domestic public and private mergers and acquisitions, investments, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic transactions, including those involving cross-border complexities. He also counsels private equity funds and their portfolio companies on a wide range of middle-market complex business transactions. David’s clients include a broad range of publicly owned and privately held U.S. and foreign companies.

David regularly represents foreign clients regarding U.S. acquisitions, as well as domestic companies in relation to their international expansion and divestitures.

Concentrations

•Mergers & acquisitions
•Private equity
•Manufacturing and industrial sector
•Corporate law
•Latin America
•Buyouts & exits
•Auction processes

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2023-2026
•Member, Leadership Atlanta, Class of 2026
•Member, Winning Team, The M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards, “Restructuring of the Year ($100 MM - $500 MM),” for the restructuring of Vivus Inc., 2021
•Listed, The Legal 500 Latin America, “International Corporate/M & A,” 2012-2019
•Listed, Chambers USA, “Corporate/M&A, Georgia,” 2013-2016
•Team Member, Latin Lawyer Magazine, “Latin Lawyer 250 - International Category: Corporate and M & A,” 2006-2009; 2013-2016
•Recognized, Daily Business Review, “Dealmaker: Corporate/M & A,” 2008-2016
•Recipient, International Law Office and Lexology USA & Canada, “Client Choice Award, M & A-Georgia,” 2015
•Finalist, The M&A Advisor, International M&A Awards, “Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year (Over $100mm - $1 Billion),” 2015

 

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Areas of Law

  • Other 7
    • Corporate
    • Private Equity
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Automotive
    • Food, Beverage & Agribusiness
    • Venture Capital & Emerging Technology
    • Manufacturing & Supply Chain Industry

Practice Details

  • Payment Information
    Accepted Credit Cards
    American Express
  • Firm Information
    Position
    Shareholder
    Firm Name
    Greenberg Traurig, LLP
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Experience: Representative Matters: Represented Entouch Controls, an IoT technology
    services company, in its financing
    strategic transaction with Respida Capital.
    Represent Banneker Partners, a leading private equity fund focused on enterprise software businesses, in numerous transactions, including the acquisition of EFC Systems, Inc. by its portfolio company Dairy, LLC.
    Represented the Monomyth Group in the joint venture formation of Anovion, LLC with JV partner Amsted Rail Company
    the acquisition of Pyrotek's battery materials division, a manufacturer of synthetic graphite anode material critical for lithium-ion batteries. Anovion launched as a leader in the North American battery materials supply chain through the combination of key assets contributed by affiliates of Amsted Graphite Materials, a world leader in graphite materials science,
    the acquired Pyrotek battery materials division
    has the largest commercially operational production capacity of synthetic graphite anode material in the United States.
    Represented Louisiana-Pacific Corporation in the sale of its CanExel Siding Business including its East River facility located in Nova Scotia, Canada to Maibec, Inc.
    Represented American Virtual Cloud Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVCT), a Georgia-based premier global cloud communications offering proprietary UCaaS, CPaaS,
    CCaaS capabilities
    its subsidiary Computex Technology Group., a Texas based IT solutions provider specializing in data centers, enterprise networking, cloud, cybersecurity,
    managed services, in the sale of Computex business to Calian Group Ltd., a Canadian based technology services consulting firm.
    Represented Top Level Design LLC, a leading top-level domain owner
    provider of registry services, in its sale of its '.design' top-level domain to GoDaddy Registry.
    Represented Light Networks LLC, a provider of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS),
    network/telecom solutions to elevate digital interactions for their customers, employees,
    partners, in its sale to Anexinet Corp., a portfolio company of private equity fund Mill Point Capital LLC.
    Represented Louisiana-Pacific Corporation in its acquisition of BlueLinx's prefinishing assets at a Granite City, Ill. facility located in St. Louis strengthening LP's SmartSide Trim & Siding br
    ed prefinished siding solution.
    Represented SereneIT, Inc., an Engineering
    IT solutions firm, managed services provider,
    value-added reseller, in its sale to Anexinet Corp., a portfolio company of private equity fund Mill Point Capital LLC.
    Represented American Virtual Cloud Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVCT)
    its subsidiary AVCtechnologies in the carve-out acquisition of Ribbon Communications Inc.'s (NASDAQ:RBBN) K
    y Communications, an industry-leading proprietary, multi-tenant, highly scalable cloud communications platform, in an all-stock transaction.
    Represented ATL Data Centers LLC, a Mining as a Service (MaaS) company, in its acquisition of a crypto-mining data center.
    Serve as counsel to sponsor Monomyth LLC in numerous investment transactions.
    Serve as counsel to sponsor Fifth Lake Management in numerous investment transactions.
    Served as counsel to OmniMax International, Inc. in multiple domestic
    international transactions.
    Represented Accordion Health in its sale to Evolent Health.
    Represented Promerica Financial Corporation in multiple acquisitions, including the acquisition of Banco Citibank de Guatemala, S.A.
    affiliate Cititarjetas de Guatemala Limitada,
    the acquisition of shares representing 56 percent of Banco de la Produccion S.A., Ecuador's third-largest publicly traded lender.
    Represented South Florida company in the disposition of its portfolio of over 100 U.S. service station assets to 7-Eleven, Inc.
    Represented pharmaceutical marketing services company in its $65 million sale to a publicly listed company.
    Represented multiple multinational financial institutions in acquisition
    divestiture transactions of private banking assets under management
    loans.
    Represented a Danish company, one of the world's largest suppliers of frozen bread products, in its acquisition of a Florida-based company
    on-going matters in the U.S.
    The above representations were h
    led by Mr. Yates prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
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Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    Georgia
    Memberships

    Professional & Community Involvement

    •Trustee, Ron Clark Academy, 2023-Present
    •Member, American Bar Association
    •Member, Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions
    •Member, Committee on Private Equity and Venture Capital
    •Member, State Bar of Georgia Business Law Section
    •Member (multiple Board committees), Covenant House of Georgia
    •Member, Yale Alumni Schools Committee

  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    University of Alabama School of Law
    Class of 2001
    J.D.
    cum laude
    Other Education
    University of Alabama, Manderson Graduate School of Business
    Class of 2001
    M.B.A.

    Yale University
    Class of 1995
    B.A.
  • Personal Details & History
    Age
    Born in 1973
    Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1973

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