Biography
Jonathan Vita is an associate in Weil’s Tax Department and is based in Miami. Jonathan participates in the representation of Firm clients with respect to the tax aspects of a wide range of corporate, restructuring and private equity transactions.
Jonathan has been part of the teams advising:
- Avon Products, Inc. in its sale of substantially all of its assets to Natura &Co and its affiliates, effected through a $125 million credit bid in connection with its chapter 11 proceedings
- Cano Health, Inc. $150 million debt-in-possession senior secured term loan facility during the pendency of the Borrower’s and its subsidiaries’ Chapter 11 cases
- CIIG Merger Corp II in connection with its merger with Zapp Electric Vehicles
- Dun & Bradstreet in its $7.7 billion sale to Clearlake Capital Group
- Everstream Solutions LLC (a portfolio company of Infrabridge) in sale of its all-fiber network in the St. Louis metropolitan area; and its sale of certain network assets to Lakefront Fiber
- Giant Eagle, Inc. in its sale of GetGo Café + Market Stores; and in the sale of its convenience store business GetGo Operating, LLC, including GEI’s GetGo Café +Markets and 270 GetGo locations, to Mac’s Convenience Stores LLC
- Gores Holdings X, Inc., a SPAC sponsored by The Gores Group, in its $359 million upsized initial public offering
- KKR Credit Advisors LLC, as lender, in a superpriority debtor-in-possession term loan facility for Accuride Corporation (a portfolio company of Crestview Partners)
- The Mark Anthony Group in connection with the formation of the Más+ by Messi hydration beverage business, an international product venture with Lionel Messi, including related equity and licensing arrangements
- Midwest Fiber Holdings LP in its entry into a $285 million stalking horse asset purchase agreement with Bluebird MidWest, LLC, an affiliate of Bluebird Fiber, in connection with its chapter 11 proceedings
- Preferred equity investor in connection with the financing to support Odyssey Investment Partners’ portfolio company Protective Industrial Products in its acquisition of Honeywell’s Personal Protective Equipment
- PSP Investments in its take private of Radius Global Infrastructure, Inc.
- Signet Group Limited in its $1.2 billion senior secured asset based revolving facility
Prior to joining Weil, Jonathan was an associate at another law firm and an intern at the Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel.
Jonathan received his LL.M. from New York University School of Law, his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he received Book Awards in Federal Income Tax Law, Secured Transactions, Property Law and Constitutional Law, and his B.S. from Florida International University.