Jeffrey S. Dinerstein

In addition, Jeff routinely counsels private equity firms and their portfolio companies, public companies, and early stage and mature private companies.

He has served on numerous nonprofit boards, and he is currently on the board of The Fire Fighters Foundation of Houston.

Jeff has been named a "Rising Star" in Texas by Super Lawyers for 11 consecutive years. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).

• Park Lawn Corporation, a funeral, cremation, and cemetery provider, in its $1.2 billion going private sale to Virdian Acquisition Inc., an affiliate of Homesteaders Life Company, and Birch Hill Equity Partners Management Inc.
• Park Lawn Corporation in its sale of substantially all of the assets of The Park Lawn Cemetery Company (USA), Inc., PLC Saber Ltd., and PLC Citadel Ltd. to Everstory Acquisition Portfolio, LLC
• Firebird Bulk Carriers, Inc., an interstate bulk motor carrier of crude oil, condensate, fuels, oils, and other petroleum products, and Phoenix Oil, Inc., a company recycles and repurposes off-spec fuels, lubricants, crude oil and other chemicals from producers in the United States, in their $33 million sale to GulfMark Asset Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Adams Resources & Energy, Inc.
• Pon Holdings BV and its subsidiary URUS Group LP in connection with URUS’s $170 million acquisition of Trans Ova Genetics, an industry-leading animal reproductive technologies company, from its parent company Precigen Inc.
• Park Lawn Corporation in multiple acquisitions, including:
  • Carolina Memorial Park of Concord, Carolina Memorial Park of Harrisburg and Whitley’s Funeral Home (North Carolina)
  • Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funerals & Cremations (Texas)
  • Crippin Funeral Home, Gunnison Funeral Services and Grand View Cemetery (Colorado)
  • Christy-Smith Funeral Homes (Iowa)
  • Cobb Funeral Chapel and Cobb Suncrest Memorial Gardens (Georgia)
  • Carson-Speaks Chapel, Speaks Buckner Chapel, Speaks Suburban Chapel, and Oak Ridge Memory Gardens (Missouri)
  • Meyer Brothers Funeral Homes (Iowa and Nebraska)
  • Schrader, Aragon & Jacoby Funeral Home, Mountain View Memorial Park, and Bustard & Jacoby Funerals, Cremation, Monuments and Reception (Wyoming)
  • Park Lawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park Cemetery & Green Lawn Cemetery, Park Lawn Northland Chapel, and Glenridge Cemetery (Missouri)
  • Muehlebach Funeral Care, Skradski-Pierce Funeral Home, and Assurance Cremation Society (Kansas and Missouri)
  • Taylor Funeral Home (Colorado)
  • Brown’s Cremation & Funeral Service (Colorado)
  • Ertel Funeral Home & Crematory (Colorado)
  • Shackelford Corporation (Tennessee)
  • Farris Funeral Service Inc. and Affiliated Service Group Inc. (Virginia)
  • Chancellor Funeral Home and Garden of Memories (Mississippi)
  • Hudson Funeral Home & Cremation Services (North Carolina)
  • Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory (Georgia)
  • Smith Funeral & Cremation Service, Life & Legacy Cremation Center, Smith Event Centers, Grandview Cemetery, and Cremation by Grandview (Tennessee)
  • Pugh Funeral Homes and New Hope Memorial Gardens (North Carolina)
  • Williamson Memorial Funeral Home & Cremation Services and Spring Hill Memorial Park, Funeral Home & Cremation Services (Tennessee)
  • Cremation Society of Tennessee, Family Care Services, Polk Memorial Gardens, and Williams Funeral Home (Tennessee)
  • West Funeral Home, Inc. (North Carolina)
  • Wichmann Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc. (Wisconsin)
  • J.F. Floyd Mortuary, Crematory and Cemeteries (South Carolina)
  • Bowers Funeral Service Ltd. (British Columbia)
  • Family Legacy and Harpeth Hills (Tennessee)
  • Horan & McConaty Funeral Services (Colorado)
  • Integrity Funeral Care (Texas)
  • The Baue Funeral Home Co. (Missouri)
  • John L. Ziegenhein & Sons (Missouri)
  • Cress Funeral Service (Wisconsin)
  • Wells Funeral Home (North Carolina)
  • Wayne Boze Funeral Home (Texas)
• JMH Capital Partners in establishing its fluid power platform and in its multiple acquisitions of the following distributors of hydraulic and industrial hoses, couplings, fittings and assemblies:
  • Alternative Hose (Arizona, Idaho and Nevada)
  • Wilco Supply (Texas)
  • Power Product Technologies (Colorado)
  • Pacific Rubber & Supply (Oregon)
  • Atlanta Rubber & Hydraulics, Inc. (Georgia and North Carolina)
• Altos Partners in its acquisition of Iron City Express, a full-service waste management, recycling, and environmental services company
• Evolution Strategy Partners in multiple acquisitions:
  • Amped Electric, an electrical service contractor in Greater Charleston and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
  • Houston Landscapes Limited, one of Houston’s largest commercial landscape and irrigation contractors, as an addition to its Ethoscapes Green Industry Platform
  • Outdoor Development, a landscaping solutions provider, as an addition to its Ethoscapes Green Industry Platform
  • Champions Hydro-Lawn, a commercial erosion control and turf establishment specialist as an addition to its Ethoscapes Green Industry Platform
  • DiPonio Contracting, a leading underground utility infrastructure prime contractor focusing on repairing and replacing aging municipal, county, and state water infrastructure throughout the state of Michigan
  • Allied Underground, Inc., a leading infrastructure company providing underground water, wastewater, and storm sewer construction services
• Park Lawn Corporation in its bought deal offering of common shares with a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Scotiabank and National Bank Financial Inc., and including CIBC Capital Markets, Cormark Securities Inc., RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities Inc., Acumen Capital Finance Partners Limited, Stifel GMP, and Paradigm Capital Inc., including full exercise of an over-allotment option, resulting in aggregate gross proceeds of CDN $148,500,000
• Park Lawn Corporation in multiple amendments of its credit facility to increase its overall borrowing capacity
• Park Lawn Corporation in its bought deal offering of 5.75% listed senior unsecured debentures and the over-allotment option granted to the underwriters resulting in aggregate gross proceeds of CDN $86,250,000
• Park Lawn Corporation in its offering of common shares on a bought deal basis resulting in gross proceeds of CDN $143,770,815
• Platinum Pools, a Texas based designer and builder of custom luxury swimming pools, in its sale to Cody Pools, a portfolio company of Main Street Capital Corporation
• New Tech Global, a provider of consulting services to the oil and gas industry and other industries, in its business combination with Sierra Hamilton
• A minority owner of gas processing facilities in the buy-out of its partner
• A major southern US-based gas and electric utility holding company in its $1.175 billion sale of a 33 percent minority interest in its solar portfolio*
• A special committee of the board of a public company in the attempted sale of certain assets and an attempted merger in two separate transactions valued at approximately $815 million, including the repayment of net debt*
• Signature Funeral and Cemetery Investments LLC in its $123 million sale of all of its outstanding membership interests to PLC Signature Ltd., an affiliate of Park Lawn Corporation.*
• A publicly traded E&P company in the $84.2 million sale of a portion of its assets*
• EDIT TX LLC, a newly formed management led buyout group, in the acquisition and related financing of MW Cleaners, an independent retail dry cleaning business, from Tailored Brands Inc.*
• A global petrochemicals and refining company and affiliates in executing definitive agreements to form a joint venture to build a $1.7 billion, 1 million ton per year ethane cracker; to acquire an existing 400,000 ton per year two-line polyethylene plant; and to build a new 625,000 ton per year Borstar PE plant*
• A global petrochemicals and refining company and affiliates in construction of a pipeline and negotiation of supply and other related agreements in connection with the construction of a hydrogen processing unit*
• FloWorks International LLC on the sale of its plate and sheet operations in Garland, Texas, to CL Alloys—Dallas LLC, a provider of stainless and aluminum coil and sheet products*
• Shale-Inland Holdings in its acquisition of Major Sourcing LLC, also referred to as Major Inc.*
• A beverage holding company in connection with a series of transactions involving a major beverage maker, where the beverage maker made a $2.15 billion net cash payment to the holding company*
• TesTeachers, LLC in its sale to ExamFX, a division of Ascend Learning LLC, a provider of online educational services to test, assess, and certify individuals for various professional services, such as insurance, nursing, financial advising, and others*
• Texas Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists, P.L.L.C. in its sale of substantially all of its assets to Veterinary Specialists of North America LLC and its affiliates, part of the Compassion-First Pet Hospitals network (former portfolio company of Quad-C)*

* Transactions were handled at a prior firm