Ronnie Skloss
Ronnie Skloss
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Overview

Ronnie Skloss is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight's Austin office. Mr. Skloss focuses on private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and other strategic business transactions in the middle market.

Mr. Skloss leads domestic and cross-border transactions, representing publicly traded and privately held issuers, institutional and individual investors, and entrepreneurs in industry sectors that include software, business and technology-enabled services, healthcare, government contracting, franchised businesses, oilfield services and consulting services. He has extensive experience advising on numerous private equity and venture capital investments and M&A transactions, with individual transaction values ranging from less than $10 million to more than $9 billion.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Skloss was an attorney at a global law firm in its Austin office.

Representative Experience

  • Representation of a Canadian private equity investment firm in non-control, dividend-paying, perpetual preferred equity investments and the negotiation of governing agreements containing dividend payment obligations, distribution waterfall and tax matters allocation provisions, and investor protective provisions, including investor consent rights, obligations and restrictions on management, equity transfer restrictions, noncompetition and other restrictive covenants, events of default, and remedies for defaults, including board replacement, super-majority voting, and optional and mandatory repurchase provisions:
    • Advised on a $70 million equity investment in one of the largest independent direct-to-consumer provider of vehicle sourcing and leasing services in the U.S. to finance a contemporaneous dividend recapitalization
    • Advised on a $30 million equity investment in a natural gas utility service contractor operating in several Southeastern and Midwestern states to finance a contemporaneous equity and debt recapitalization
    • Advised on a $66 million combined equity and subordinated debt investment in a large-parcel site development contractor to finance a contemporaneous dividend recapitalization
    • Advised on a $40 million equity investment in a full-service real estate title and settlement company to finance a contemporaneous dividend recapitalization
    • Advised on a $34 million equity investment in a professional and technical services firm primarily supporting the U.S. Department of Energy, commercial nuclear industry and private sector businesses involved in nuclear operations to finance a contemporaneous dividend recapitalization
    • Advised on a $17 million equity investment in an industrial, commercial and residential electrical contracting services business to finance a contemporaneous dividend recapitalization
    • Advised on a $60 million equity investment and recapitalization of existing equity in a multi-state franchisee of a national fitness gym franchise business
    • Advised on a $46 million combined equity and subordinated debt investment in a global provider of digital marketing solutions for advertisers to finance a contemporaneous management buyout of a private equity buyout fund
    • Advised on a $85 million equity investment in a sales- and marketing-focused management consulting firm to finance a contemporaneous management buyout
    • Advised on a $73 million equity investment in a leading national provider of diversified behavioral and emotional health and physical disability mentoring, education and living support services to finance a contemporaneous management buyout of a private equity buyout fund
    • Advised on a $70 million equity investment in a regional excavation, grading, paving and wet and dry utility construction company to finance a contemporaneous management buyout
    • Advised on a $47 million combined equity and subordinated debt investment in a U.S. government contracting business providing marine, defense, homeland security, first responder and related products and services to finance a contemporaneous management buyout of a private equity buyout fund
    • Advised on a $34 million equity investment in a national hospitality services provider to finance a contemporaneous management buyout
    • Advised on a $30 million equity investment in an international provider of garment design, engineering, development, manufacturing and sourcing services to finance a dividend recapitalization
    • Advised on a $27 million equity investment in a regional operator of skilled nursing facilities to finance a contemporaneous reorganization and senior debt restructuring
    • Advised on a $21 million equity investment in a provider of physical and occupational therapy rehabilitation services, speech pathology services and clinical management software
    • Advised on a $20 million equity investment in the U.S. business of an international provider of strategy, advertising, marketing, communications, data analytics and public relations services to finance a contemporaneous equity and debt recapitalization
    • Advised on a $20 million equity investment in a designer, developer and provider of information technology (IT) staffing and consulting services to finance a contemporaneous equity and debt recapitalization
  • Advised on a $96 million cash sale (via merger) to a private equity buyout fund of a leading national provider of diversified behavioral and emotional health and physical disability mentoring, education and living support services

  • Advised on a $60 million sale (for cash) to a private equity buyout fund of the stock of the operating subsidiaries of an international provider of strategy, advertising, marketing, communications, data analytics and public relations services
  • Advised on a $25 million stock sale (for cash) to a strategic buyer of a distressed provider of physical and occupational therapy rehabilitation services, speech pathology services and clinical management software

  • Advised on a $35 million stock sale (for cash) to a Swiss fluid engineering and application technology company of a provider of process technologies, engineering services, process equipment solutions, chemicals and catalysts to the chemical, petrochemical, refining and gas processing markets
  • Advised on a $182 million stock sale (for cash) of a Mexican petroleum lubricants subsidiary (with approximately 100 minority shareholders) of a Fortune 30 global energy company to a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)-listed strategic buyer
  • Advised on a $70 million cash sale of a regional real estate title insurance agency to a publicly traded national title insurance underwriter
  • Representation of a Nasdaq-100 listed supply chain management software development company:
    • Advised on a $9.3 billion acquisition via stock-for-stock merger of another Nasdaq-listed business-to-business e-commerce software development company
    • Advised on a $114 million acquisition via stock-for-stock merger of a business-to-business e-commerce software development company
    • Advised on a $380 million acquisition via stock-for-stock merger in a Section 3(a)(10) exempt transaction of a supply chain management software development company
    • Advised on a $100 million dual contemporaneous acquisitions via stock-for-stock and cash mergers of a database publisher of maintenance, repair and operations transactional content software and a maintenance, repair and operations content, management and maintenance software development company
    • Advised on a $97 million cross-border acquisition via stock-for-stock exchange of a Canadian transportation and logistics management software development company
    • Advised on a $68 million acquisition via stock-for-stock merger of an enterprise relationship management software development company
    • Advised on a $201 million dual contemporaneous acquisitions via stock-for-stock mergers of a developer of demand chain management software for sales, marketing and logistics and a developer of supply chain management software for manufacturing
  • Representation of a Nasdaq-listed semiconductor photomask manufacturer:
    • Advised on a $42 million cash sale of a photoblank production facility and business unit to a German buyer
    • Acquisition of the German photomask manufacturing assets of a global semiconductor manufacturer

  • Representation of a privately held artificial intelligence (AI) technology company in the negotiation of a joint venture with one of the world's largest aerospace companies to develop unmanned aircraft system traffic management solutions
  • Representation of a privately held oilfield services company with operations in several Western, Southwestern, Midwestern and East Coast states in the negotiation of a Canadian joint venture with an international oilfield services company to deliver frac fluid heating services to customers in Western Canada
  • Representation of a Nasdaq-listed semiconductor photomask manufacturer:
    • Advised on a lithographic semiconductor photomask development and pilot-manufacturing joint venture in Germany with two global semiconductor manufacturers
    • Advised on a strategic alliance with a German glass conglomerate to jointly develop advanced semiconductor photomask blanks
    • Advised on a supply agreement with a German glass conglomerate relating to the manufacture and supply of commercial semiconductor photomask blanks and associated patent and related intellectual property licensing agreements
  • Representation of a Nasdaq-listed telecommunications network management software company in the spinoff of its wireless modem product division

Credentials

Education
  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D.
  • The University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., Finance
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Texas
Memberships
  • American Bar Association
  • State Bar of Texas
  • Stephen F. Austin High School Football Booster Club, Treasurer, 2024-Present
  • Pease Park Conservancy, Advisory Board Member, 2012-2018
Honors & Awards
  • Stand-out Lawyer, Thomson Reuters, 2023-2024

News

Holland & Knight Grows Corporate Practice in Texas with Addition of Ronnie Skloss in Austin

Press Release / February 4, 2025
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