The Legal 500 has named Corporate Practice Group Co-Chair Jonathan Awner to its inaugural M&A Powerlist Series: USA. The annual list recognizes the nation’s leading M&A practitioners whose experience, leadership and legal prowess distinguish them from their peers.
Awner, based in Akerman's Miami office, is co-chair of a 100+ lawyer team of corporate lawyers who primarily handle M&A, financing, and capital markets transactions for strategic and financial clients.
Awner focuses on middle-market domestic mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, dispositions, spinoffs, joint ventures, and growth investments for private equity sponsors, family offices, publicly traded companies, and other investors. He is a nationally recognized attorney for purchases and sales of car dealerships and other automotive businesses across the U.S. In addition to the automotive sector, Awner advises clients in the aviation, distribution, hospitality, logistics, manufacturing, business services, consumer products, technology, and other industries. While the majority of his transactions are in the middle market, Jonathan also has led teams in transactions ranging from $1 billion to in excess of $10 billion in value.
He also is a recognized specialist in Florida corporate law and frequently is retained as co-counsel by AmLaw 100 and leading international law firms for in-bound transactions and investments in Florida.
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The Akerman Corporate Practice Group advises public and private companies, including private equity funds, on M&A, capital markets transactions, financings, and other transactional matters, with a strong focus on the middle market. We are top-ranked nationally for mergers, acquisitions and buyouts: middle market by The Legal 500 and recognized as a leading U.S. law firm by U.S. News - Best Lawyers for corporate, M&A, private equity, securities/capital markets, securities regulation, and banking and finance law.