Arthur Jay Schwartz

Arthur Jay Schwartz formerly served as the Firm’s Managing Partner and Finance Partner. In his practice, Jay has particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions, finance, securities, commercial leasing, and technology.

Jay represents and advises clients in all types of mergers and acquisition transactions including “going private” and “leveraged buyout transactions,” representing both buyers, sellers, and financing parties. He regularly consults with public and privately held clients on the effective use of capital structure to accomplish a variety of financing objectives. In addition, Jay has an active practice in business acquisition and divestiture transactions, especially where the transactions involved complex financing structure issues. He regularly represents borrowers and secured and unsecured lenders in connection with all types of financing transactions, and public companies and underwriters in connection with public equity and debt offerings.

Jay has extensive experience working with technology companies and in all aspects of their business, including organizational structure, financing and capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and public and private securities offerings.

He has served on The University of North Carolina Jewish Studies Center Advisory Board from 2003 to 2010 and the Board of Trustees of the Atlanta Jewish Federation and its Endowment Fund Board from 1999 to 2008, as well as the Board of Visitors of Emory University from 2006 to 2009. From 1999 to 2002 he served on The Emory Law School Council. He is also a past president of The Temple in Atlanta, where he was president from 2002 to 2004 and served as the Chairman of the Endowment Board of Trustees from 2013 to 2018. Jay has spoken at professional education seminars on small business and financing topics.

Jay's Practice

Representative Matters

• Represented The Adecco Group, the world’s leading provider of work force solutions, in the sale of the legal consulting and e-discovery business to Consilio.
• Represented Hicks Electric & Utility Supply Company, Inc. in its sale to Winsupply.
• Represented Account Control Technology Holdings, Inc., one of the nation’s leading debt recovery accounts receivable management and business process outsourcing companies, in its sale to TransWorld Systems, Inc.
• Represented The Adecco Group, the world’s leading provider of work force solutions, in connection with the $612 million sale of Soliant Health, its U.S. healthcare staffing business, to Olympus Partners.
• Represented Gigamonster, one of the nation’s leading fiber based internet providers in the multi-family industry, in the sale of a majority interest to Barrings, one of the world’s leading financial services firms.
• Represented Republic National Distributing Company, LLC, the second largest distributor of alcohol beverage products, in connection with its joint venture with Young’s Market Company.
• Represented Gigamonster, one of the nation’s leading fiber based network providers in the multi-family industry, in connection with its acquisition of Amtec Communications.
• Represented MS Biotech, a leading provider of natural proprietary products that maximize performance in the beef feed lot and dairy markets, in connection with a sale of a majority interest to Paine Schwartz Partners.
• Represented The Adecco Group, the world’s leading provider of work force solutions, in connection with its acquisition of Bio Bridges, a career portfolio management company.
• Represented The Adecco Group, the world’s leading provider of work force solutions, in connection with the sale of its subsidiary, Onforce, to World Market.
• Represented Ironwood Capital Partners in the sale of their fund management business, Timbervest, which is comprised of a 530,000-acre timberland portfolio worth approximately $1 billion.
• Represented Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation in the sale of Atmosphere Annealing and NitroSteel to Z Capital.
• Represented Trinity Healthcare Staffing Group in its acquisition by Travel Nurse Across America (TNAA).
• Represented Adecco Group in the merger of its subsidiary Beeline with IQNavigator.
• Represented Nutrition Physiology Corporation in its sale to private equity firm, The Halifax Group, LLC.
• Represented AirTran Holdings, Inc. in connection with AirTran’s attempted $445 million acquisition of Midwest Air Group, Inc.
• Represented Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Pacific Coast Steel, Inc. and Bay Area Re-enforcing.
• Represented National Distributing Company, Inc. in its combination with Republic Beverage Company.
• Represented Given Imaging, Ltd. in the acquisition of the Smart Pill Corporation assets.
• Represented Sasco Chemical Group, Inc. in connection with its sale to private equity firm, Arsenal Capital Partners.
• Represented Lamin-Art, Inc. in its sale to the Arborite subsidiary of Wilson-Art Engineered Services.
• Represented Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc. in the purchase of Cycle Systems, Inc.
• Represented Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc. in the sale of the Bright Bar Division to Nucor Corporation.
• Represented Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc. in its purchase of Tamco Steel from Ameron International Corporation, Mitsui & Co. (USA), Inc. and Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
• Represented Gerdau Ameristeel US, Inc. in the sale of Sand Springs Railway Company.
• Represented Harbert Management, a private equity firm, in connection with the acquisition of the assets of Sirious Technologies, Inc.