Lippes Mathias LLP is pleased to have served as legal counsel to Enceladus Partners in its investment in Smith Excavating, LLC (SMEX). Enceladus Partners is a family office that focuses on partnering with businesses in the lower middle-market. 

SMEX, headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, specializes in tech-enabled critical maintenance services for customers in the infrastructure, utility, and government end-markets across the Mid-Atlantic region. The investment was completed in partnership with Matthew Smith, a second-generation family member and CEO of SMEX. 

The Lippes Mathias deal team was led by John J. Koeppel, a partner and leader of the firm's private equity and independent sponsor practice teams, senior PE / M&A associate J. Tyler Finn, PE / M&A associates Alana M. Becker and Christopher J. Kolber, and tax counsel Thomas A. Mitchell. 

Lippes Mathias is a full-service law firm with 220-plus attorneys serving clients regionally, nationally, and internationally. With offices in Buffalo, Clarence, Albany, Long Island, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, and Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Greater Toronto Area; Chicago, Ill.; Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, and West Palm Beach, Fla.; Cleveland, Ohio; San Antonio, Texas; Oklahoma City, Okla.; and Washington, D.C., the firm represents publicly and privately owned companies, private equity and venture capital firms, independent sponsors, family offices, real estate developers, financial institutions, municipalities, governmental entities, and individuals. 

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