Recently, a Gunster team led by attorneys Joseph Chase and Cole Jackson represented the sellers in connection with the sale of South Florida-based Hi-Tech Roofing & Sheetmetal, Inc. to PAX Services Group. PAX is a portfolio company of New State Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm. Other Gunster team members who helped facilitate the transaction include Craig Behrenfeld, April Bentley, Fredrick Brackin, Derek Bruce, Holly Goodman, Paul Hines, Julia Holden-Davis, Michael Farr, Kellie Humphries, Gabriella Ledbetter, Deborah Madden, Jason Martell and Melanie Stocks.
Hi-Tech Roofing is a South Florida-based roofing contractor. With over 150 years of combined roofing experience, Hi-Tech handles the most complex challenges related to commercial roofing.
Joseph Chase serves as head of Gunster’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity team. He is dedicated to serving as a trusted advisor to business owners, private equity firms, companies in a wide range of industries, and other clients. He represents clients in connection with sales and purchases of businesses and general business and corporate matters. In addition to representing business owners and their companies, Joe also represents private equity firms in connection with purchase and sale transactions and myriad other legal needs.
Cole Jackson is an associate in Gunster’s West Palm Beach office, where he is a member of the firm’s Corporate practice group and its Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity team. Cole’s practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions. Cole represents buyers (including both private equity firms and strategic buyers) and sellers in complex transactions in a wide range of industries, from aerospace to construction, healthcare to information technology services, manufacturing to natural resources, and everything in between. Utilizing his accounting background to gain a deep understanding of clients’ businesses, Cole strives to provide practical and focused advice to founders, multigenerational family businesses, private equity firms, and strategic buyers.
About Gunster
Gunster, Florida’s law firm for business, provides full-service legal counsel to leading organizations and individuals from its 13 offices statewide. Established in 1925, the firm has expanded, diversified and evolved, but always with a singular focus: Florida and its clients’ stake in it. A magnet for business-savvy attorneys who embrace collaboration for the greatest advantage of clients, Gunster’s growth has not been at the expense of personalized service but because of it. The firm serves clients from its offices in Boca Raton, Coral Gables, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Naples, Orlando, Palm Beach, Stuart, Tallahassee, Tampa, Vero Beach, and its headquarters in West Palm Beach. With more than 330 attorneys and consultants, and 300 committed support staff, Gunster is ranked among the top 200 largest law firms by the National Law Journal and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Diverse Law Firms by Law360. More information about its practices, industries, offices and news is available at www.gunster.com.
About Hi-Tech Roofing & Sheetmetal, Inc.
Hi-Tech Roofing & Sheetmetal, Inc. specializes in handling and repairing commercial buildings, high rises, warehouses, churches, and multitenant complexes across a variety of roof types. The company remains committed to continuing education and remaining certified in all facets of the most current roofing regulations and technologies.
