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Nicholas San Filippo IV

Partner
Co-chair, Business Divorce

New Jersey
T: +1 973.597.2572 F: +1 973.597.2573 nsanfilippo@lowenstein.com
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Growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Nick San Filippo started learning at an early age how business leaders think and what concerns them. He continues this life-long educational journey through deep immersion in the business community, participating in monthly CEO roundtables and serving on client advisory boards. This ongoing learning process combined with his 25+ years of legal experience representing mid to large market companies allows Nick to advise his clients on both business and legal strategy making him a go-to resource for business leaders seeking to grow and, ultimately, monetize their businesses.   

Nick frequently leads high-stakes, one-of-a-kind mergers and acquisitions for his clients. He is equally comfortable advising the experienced C-Suite of a large, international company and private equity firms as he is with guiding the entrepreneur owner. His diverse practice extends far beyond conducting complex transactions. Nick forms enduring, long-term relationships with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and visionaries across an eclectic mix of sectors, acting as an outside general counsel and trusted strategic advisor who provides ongoing legal and business advice throughout the entire arc of a company, from formation through day-to-day business challenges, towards successful exits. Nick brings a team approach to his representation; he knows that connecting quality people with one another enhances the likelihood of success for all involved.

Nick has guided hundreds of companies in such varied industries as chemicals, manufacturing, food, distribution, insurance, automobile, professional services, and plastics. This diverse wealth of experience enables him to envision his clients’ needs, likely challenges, and viable solutions, and reliably outline the best way to work through them all. Collaborating closely with Lowenstein colleagues, Nick takes a 360˚ view of his role as counsel, bringing in the right talent at the right time while balancing the correct legal answer with the realities of acceptable business risk, deadlines, and budget.

In addition to his transactional and outside legal / business counseling work, Nick co-leads the firm's Business Divorce Group, which guides clients through the complexities of co-owner dispute resolution and, if necessary, business separation and shareholder oppression litigation. A skilled negotiator, Nick employs his strategic vision to navigate contentious matters between minority and majority shareholders of closely held companies or members of family businesses to preserve the value of assets and reach satisfactory consensus.

As a member of Lowenstein’s Executive Board and Compensation Committee as well as Chair of its Strategic Planning Committee, Nick has been deeply involved in the firm’s growth and success over the past two decades.

His principal areas of focus include:

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Complex business transactions
  • Business divorce and shareholder oppression litigation
  • Strategic outside general counsel and strategic advisor

Representative Transactional Engagements

  • Represented Infineum USA L.P., a specialty chemicals company producing petroleum additives for lubricants and fuels, in its agreement to acquire Entegris, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: ENTG) Pipeline and Industrial Materials business (PIM), including the Flowchem, Val-Tex, and Sealweld brands and a broad range of Drag Reducing Agents (DRAs) for pipeline operations.
  • Represented founder and management team in Radwell International, Inc.’s recapitalization transaction with CVC Capital Partners VIII. Radwell International stocks and sells new and surplus industrial automation, MRO, pneumatic, motion, electronic, hydraulic, HVAC and electrical control equipment for plant floor and facilities maintenance machinery.
  • Served as US counsel to Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (BKK:IVL) in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Brazil-based Oxiteno S.A. Indústria e Comércio, a subsidiary of Ultrapar Participações S.A.
  • Represented Progressive Products, LLC (d/b/a WipesPlus®) in its sale to CFS Brands, LLC, a portfolio company of The Jordan Company.
  • Represented PJW Restaurant Group, an American restaurant holding company with 26 restaurants and six different brands in its sale to Garnett Station Partners.
  • Represented Radwell International, Inc. in its transaction with Greenbriar Equity Group, L.P. Radwell International stocks and sells new and surplus industrial automation, MRO, pneumatic, motion, electronic, hydraulic, HVAC and electrical control equipment for plant floor and facilities maintenance machinery.
  • Represented Indorama Ventures (BKK:IVL) in its $2.1 billion acquisition of the specialty chemicals portfolio of Huntsman Corporation USA (NYSE:HUN).
  • Represented PopStroke Holdings LLC, a technology-infused golf-entertainment concept featuring professionally designed putting courses, in its equity investment by and strategic partnership with TGR / Tiger Woods Ventures.
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Education

  • St. John's University School of Law (J.D. 1995), cum laude

    Villanova University (B.S. 1992), Accounting

Affiliations

  • Member, Vistage CEO Group
  • Member, Tiger 21
  • Member, Quartet Board of Directors
  • Member, Sax LLP Advisory Board
  • Member, Board of Directors of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce
  • Member, Board of Trustees, Cresthaven Academy Foundation, Inc.

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  • New York
  • New Jersey

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