Overview
Jake Stropes is a corporate attorney who focuses his practice on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, finance, and general corporate counseling and representation. Jake has experience representing private equity funds, independent sponsors, and closely held businesses with their acquisitions, divestitures and borrowings, along with representing issuers and borrowers with asset-based financings and securitizations.
In addition to his client work, Jake serves on the firm’s Summer Associate Committee.
Services
Experience
Representative Matters
- Represented private equity fund in the majority sale of its lawn care and fertilization platform operating in the US and Canada
- Represented private equity fund in the carveout acquisition of a leading provider of abrasive blasting media and roofing granules across North America
- Represented public company in the sale of its insurance services subsidiary
- Represented private equity fund in the acquisition of its digital marketing and advertising platform
- Represented private equity fund in the sale of a major road striping and traffic control business with national operations
- Represented SBA lender and community development financial institution in several asset-backed borrowing transactions
- Represented commercial lender in several securitization transactions and note issuances
Prior Experience
- Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, Washington, D.C., Fellow, 2020
Credentials
Education
Wayne State University Law School, J.D.
- cum laude
- Order of the Coif
- Jessup International Law Moot Court Team, Chancellor
- Wayne Law Review, Executive Articles Editor
- Full Academic Merit Scholarship
University of Michigan Ross School of Business, B.B.A.
- High Distinction
- James B. Angell Scholar
- University of Michigan Minor in Writing Journal, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Admissions
- Michigan