Zachary Lupu

Zach Lupu is a partner in the firm’s Private Equity group. His practice focuses on representing middle-market private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, sale transactions, recapitalizations, growth equity financings, joint ventures, carveouts and management equity arrangements.

Zach’s representative matters include:

• Advised MFG Partners in connection with its:
  • Acquisition of Regency Electric
  • Acquisition of A-Z Industries, its acquisitions of Maney Wire & Cable and Gen-Pro, and its disposition to LindFast Solutions Group
  • Acquisition of CST Utilities and its acquisition of Daystar Directional Drilling
  • Acquisition of The Mellott Company and its acquisition of NorX
  • Disposition of Elgen Manufacturing to Worthington Enterprises
• Advised TCV in connection with its:
  • Portfolio company Newsela’s acquisitions of Schoolytics and Generation Genius
  • Portfolio company Kipu’s acquisition of Hatch Compliance
  • Portfolio company Perceptyx’s acquisitions of Cultivate Technology, Waggl*, CultureIQ* and the carve-out and acquisition of Kantar’s Employee Insights business*
  • Portfolio company Watermark’s acquisitions of Aviso Retention, SmartCatalog*, EvaluationKit* and Digital Measures*
• Advised Sixth Street Growth in connection with its growth equity investments in Clio and Seeq
• Advised TriSpan (as general partner) in connection with its:
  • Portfolio company Naya Group’s continuation vehicle transaction and growth equity investment led by Pacific General
  • Portfolio company PrestigePEO’s continuation vehicle transaction and recapitalization led by Lead Edge Capital
• Advised StepStone (as lead investor) in connection with various continuation vehicle transactions
• Advised Lumos Capital Group in connection with its:
  • Acquisition of Learning.com
  • Growth equity investments in Core Education, OnlineMedEd, Transfr, BookNook, Podium Education, OpenClassrooms*, Ironhack* and Ellevation*
• Advised Education Growth Partners in connection with its:
  • Growth equity investment in BetterManager
  • Co-investment in TIGER 21* and its disposition to BV Investment Partners
• Advised Quad Partners in connection with its:
  • Acquisition of Berlitz Corporation and ELS and their combination with ILSC Education Group to form Language Education Holdings
  • Acquisition of eSpark and its combination with Amplio Learning Technologies
  • Acquisition of The Gardner School* and its disposition to Vistria
  • Acquisitions of The Edwin Group and SchoolAdmin*
  • Co-investments in Nord Anglia Education and The Goddard School
  • Growth equity investments in 15Five and Vivi
  • Disposition of Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences to Lottus Education
  • Portfolio company Streamline Brands’ acquisition of Saf-T-Swim* and its disposition to Youth Enrichment Brands
  • Acquisition of Watermark*, its acquisitions of LiveText* and Tk20* and its disposition to TCV*
  • Acquisition of Interfolio and its disposition to Insight Partners*
  • Portfolio company Cayuse’s acquisition of NTM Consulting Services* and its disposition to Primus Capital*
  • Disposition of Endeavor Schools to Leeds Equity Partners*
• Advised Stone Point Capital in connection with its:
  • Acquisitions and combination of Verisys Corporation and Aperture Health*
  • Acquisitions of Rialto Capital*, Gordon Brothers Group* and Stretto*
  • Acquisition of Harbor Group Consulting*, its acquisition of Jensen Insurance Solutions* and its disposition to Alliant Insurance Services*
  • Recapitalization of Prima Capital Advisors*
  • Growth equity investment in SumRidge Partners*
  • Disposition of Enhanced Capital to P10 Holdings*
  • Disposition of Newport Group to Kelso & Company*
  • Disposition of Access Point Financial to Wafra Capital Partners*
  • Disposition of APCO to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan*
  • Disposition of Preferred Concepts to Alliant Insurance Services*
  • Portfolio company Oasis Outsourcing’s acquisitions of Fortune Industries*, Staff One HR* and DHR*

* Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Zach was a private equity M&A associate at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and a capital markets associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

While in law school, Zach was a member of the Fordham Law Review Editorial Board.

Zach has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for his work in Corporate Law in 2021, 2022 and 2023.