Biography
Frances D. Dales is a partner in Weil’s Private Equity practice and is based in Los Angeles. She represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies with respect to mergers, acquisitions, minority and joint venture investments, growth equity investments, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs and divestitures. Frances has experience counseling clients in a number of industries, including software, business and financial services, asset management, consumer products and healthcare.
Prior to joining Weil, Frances was a partner at another international law firm.
Experience*
- Vestar Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in a number of matters:
- its sale of Edward Don & Company to Sysco
- its sale of IRI in its combination with The NPD Group to form Circana
- its recapitalization of its investment in Circana and the related formation of a $1.2 billion single-asset continuation fund
- its acquisition, along with Flexpoint Ford, of Lereta, LLC
- Greenbriar Equity Group and its portfolio companies in a number of matters:
- its acquisition of Towne Park from TA Associates
- Towne Park’s acquisition of over 100+ commercial parking locations in strategic markets
- its acquisition of VIVE Collision from Garnett Station Partners
- management of its investment in Uber Freight
- L Catterton and its portfolio companies in a number of matters:
- as the anchor investor of a $355 million capital raise for iFIT Health & Fitness
- iFIT’s sale of Universal Technical Services to Amynta Group
- management of its investment in ClassPass that was acquired by MindBody
- Investindustrial and its portfolio companies in a number of matters, including its acquisition of Parker Food Group from The Riverside Company
- Pamplona Capital Management and its portfolio companies in:
- its sale of Parexel to EQT and Goldman Sachs Asset Management for $8.5 billion
- its sale of Calyx to CapVest’s GLO Healthcare
- Gallatin Point Capital in the acquisition of the attorney-in-fact for Trusted Resources Underwriting Exchange and related $1.25 billion capital raise
- Ryan Specialty in its acquisition of Socius Insurance Services
- VSP Vision in its acquisition of Professional Eye Care Associates of America
- E2open in its $1.7 billion acquisition of BluJay Solutions
- American Securities in its strategic partnership with, and investment in, r-pac International
- Recognize Partners in its investment in SpringML
*Includes matters handled prior to joining Weil.