James Moriarty

Jim Moriarty is a partner in the firm’s Private Equity group. His practice focuses on representing middle-market private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. He also represents strategic buyers. Jim handles a wide variety of transactions, including acquisition and sale transactions, leveraged buyouts, growth equity financings, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and management equity arrangements, across a wide variety of industries. In the past few years he has been particularly active with deals in the following sectors: industrial, manufacturing and distribution services; professional services; technology businesses generally; education technology and other education businesses; and financial services. 

Jim’s representative experience includes:

• Advised MFG Partners in connection with its:
  • Acquisition of Regency Electric
  • Acquisition of A-Z Industries, its add-on acquisitions of Maney Wire & Cable and Gen-Pro, and its disposition to LindFast Solutions Group (a portfolio company of Nautic Partners)
  • Acquisition of CST Utilities and its add-on acquisitions of Daystar Directional Drilling and Precise Boring
  • Acquisition of The Mellott Company and its add-on acquisitions of NorX, Kastrock, and Southern Machinery
  • Acquisition of Elgen Manufacturing* and its disposition to Worthington Enterprises
  • Acquisition of Storage Solutions*, its add-on acquisitions of SNC Solutions and Electronic Mechanical Integration Technologies, and its disposition to Jungheinrich
  • Acquisition of Alliance Environmental* and its disposition to Incline Equity Partners
  • Acquisition of Mail Communications Group*
• Advised Quad Partners in connection with its:
  • Acquisition of The Edwin Group
  • Acquisition of Berlitz Corporation and ELS and their combination with ILSC Education Group to form Language Education Holdings
  • Acquisition of Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences* and its disposition to Lottus Education
  • Acquisition of eSpark, acquisition of Amplio Learning Technologies and their combination
  • Acquisition of The Gardner School*, its add-on acquisition of The Compass Schools, and its disposition to Vistria
  • Co-investments in Nord Anglia Education and The Goddard School
  • Acquisition of Streamline Brands*, its add-on acquisition of Saf-T-Swim*, and its disposition to Youth Enrichment Brands (a portfolio company of Roark Capital)
  • Acquisition of SchoolAdmin* and its disposition to Finalsite* (a portfolio company of Bridge Growth Partners)
  • Growth equity investments in 15Five, Vivi, Accelerate Learning, and InPlace Software
  • Acquisition of Watermark*, its add-on acquisitions of LiveText* and Tk20*, and its disposition to TCV*
  • Acquisition of Interfolio and its disposition to Insight Partners*
  • Acquisition of Cayuse*, its add-on acquisition of NTM Consulting Services*, and its disposition to Primus Capital*
  • Growth equity investment Endeavor Schools* and its disposition to Leeds Equity Partners*
  • Acquisition of Stratford Schools* and its disposition to Warburg Pincus*
  • Acquisition of TargetX*, several add-on acquisitions, and its disposition to Liaison International*
  • Acquisition of Dorsey School* and its disposition to Lindenwood University
  • Acquisition of Pacific College of Health and Science*
  • Growth equity investment in The Learning Experience* and its disposition*
  • Growth equity investment in Learn on Demand Systems* and its disposition to Shamrock Capital
  • Acquisitions of Blue Cliff College*, Inside Higher Ed*, Noel-Levitz*, Rubicon*, Beckfield College*, and their dispositions
• Advised Coral Tree Partners in connection with its:
  • Recapitalization of Plein Air
  • Recapitalization of Subject Matter and its add-on acquisition of Kivvit to form Avoq
• Advised TCV in connection with its:
  • Portfolio company Newsela’s add-on acquisitions of EveryDay Labs, Schoolytics, and Generation Genius
  • Portfolio company Kipu’s add-on acquisition of Hatch Compliance
  • Portfolio company Perceptyx’s add-on acquisitions of Cultivate Technology, Waggl*, CultureIQ*, and Kantar’s Employee Insights business*
  • Portfolio company Watermark’s add-on acquisitions of Aviso Retention, SmartCatalog*, EvaluationKit*, and Digital Measures*
• Advised Lumos Capital Group in connection with its:
  • Acquisition of Learning.com
  • Growth equity investments in Core Education, Instructure, OnlineMedEd, Transfr, BookNook, Podium Education, Disprz, OpenClassrooms*, Ironhack*, and Ellevation*
• Advised Alliance Environmental, a portfolio company of Incline Equity Partners, in connection with its:
  • Add-on acquisition of ThermaTech Northwest
  • Add-on acquisition of Pacific HVAC
  • Add-on acquisition of F.S. & G.S. Services
  • Add-on acquisition of the abatement and remediation division of Construction Group International
• Advised TriSpan 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
  • Acquisition of Prestige PEO Holdings* and in its add-on acquisitions of APR Advantage, StaffLink Outsourcing, and PathGoal Employer Services*
• Advised Education Growth Partners in connection with its:
  • Growth equity investments in ClassWallet, Uwill, New Level Work, Vivvi, Ubeya, Kangarootime, Emtrain*, Capp & Co. Ltd. (UK)*, Fuse Universal*, and Modo Labs*
  • Acquisition of Apex Learning* and its disposition of Edmentum (a portfolio company of Vistria)
  • Acquisition of All Campus*
  • Disposition of Human Capital Institute to Simplify Compliance (a portfolio company of Leeds Equity Partners)
  • Recapitalization of TIGER 21* and its disposition to BV Investment Partners
• Advised Storable, a portfolio company of EQT, in connection with its add-on acquisition of Molo*
• Advised Stone Point Capital in connection with its:
  • Sale of Oasis Outsourcing to Paychex*
  • Recapitalization of Prima Capital Advisors*
  • Sale of Access Point Financial to Wafra Capital Partners*
  • Growth equity investment in SumRidge Partners*
  • Growth equity investment in Preston Hollow Capital*
  • Sale of Lancaster Pollard to Orix*
  • Growth equity investment in Applied Systems*
  • Growth equity investment in Broadstone Real Estate*

* Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Jim was most recently a partner at and co-chair of the corporate department at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP. Prior to Kramer, he was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

Jim is recognized as a leading transaction lawyer by Chambers USA (2016 – 2024) and Legal 500 US (2011 – 2018, 2024).

Jim’s recent publications include:

• Quoted, “Reps and Warranty Coverage Goes Downmarket,” The Deal, February 8, 2019

Jim’s recent speaking engagements include:

• Speaker, “M&A Trends — The Next Evolution on De-Risking Deals,” Markets Group’s Private Equity US Spring Forum, May 4, 2021
• Speaker, “The Impact of the Novel Coronavirus on M&A Deal Activity, R&W Insurance, and Due Diligence,” Beecher Carlson’s COVID-19 M&A Update, Webinar, May 7, 2020