Orlando Lopez-Fernandez

Associate

Orlando advises public and private company clients from across a variety of industries with their corporate transactions. His work has included representing clients in mergers, acquisitions, entity formations, and general corporate matters.

Orlando participated in the Cozen O'Connor summer associate program.

Orlando earned his law degree, cum laude, from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he served on the Temple Law Review. He also interned with the Center for Public Health Law Research with the Policy Surveillance Program, where he conducted statutory and regulatory research. He earned both his master's degree in health science and his undergraduate degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University.

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Experience

Represented Dawn Bazzurro, founder and CEO of East Coast Emergency Lighting Inc., East Coast Emergency, Inc., and East Coast Emergency Vehicles, LLC (collectively, “East Coast”), in her sale of substantially all the equity interests of East Coast, a leading high-growth platform providing vehicle equipment and installation to police and other emergency service industries, to LEHR, a portfolio company of Broadwing Capital. 

Represented Premier Dental Products Company, a family-owned and operated manufacturer and distributor of dental products, in its sale to Radial Equity Partners.

Represented Aspen Capital Group, a growth equity firm, in a $9.5 million investment in a Series A preferred stock funding for Guidesly, a software platform for outdoor recreation guides. 

Represented Utz Quality Foods, LLC (NYSE: UTZ) and an affiliate of Utz in their $19 million sale of two manufacturing plants to affiliates of snack maker Our Home.

Represented Veritable LP, an owner-operated investment firm and multi-family office, in its $350 million acquisition by Pathstone, a wealth management firm serving multigenerational families, single-family offices, and foundations and endowments. The team led the auction process, sale, negotiation, and documentation.

Represented Utz Quality Foods, LLC (NYSE: UTZ) and certain of its affiliates in the $167.5 million sale of certain assets and brands to Our Home™, an operating company of Better-for-You brands that includes Real Food From the Ground Up®, Popchips®, and Food Should Taste Good® (Our Home). Under the agreement, affiliates of Our Home purchased the Good Health® and R.W. Garcia® brands (including the entities that owned such brands); the Lincolnton, NC, and Lititz, Pa., manufacturing facilities; and certain related assets.

Represented Abington Reldan Metals, LLC, a company that reprocesses industrial and electronic waste to extract precious metals for resale, and its affiliated entities in their sale to Sibanye-Stillwater Limited (NYSE: SBSW) (JSE: SSW), a South African company and one of the world's largest gold producers, for $211.5 million. The sale transaction, which was structured as a locked box transaction, required Hart-Scott-Rodino and CFIUS clearances as well as ITAR filings.

Education

  • Temple University—James E. Beasley School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2022
  • Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 2017
  • Florida