Gordon & Rees Served as Exclusive Legal Counsel to Woodlawns Landscape Company, Inc. in Sale to Mariani Landscape


September 2021

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani acted as exclusive legal counsel to Woodlawns Landscape Company, Inc. and its owner in its sale to Mariani Landscape Company. The Gordon & Rees team was led by Chicago partner Jonathan Boulahanis and the national business transactions group leader Craig Heryford, with significant assistance and contributions by senior counsel Tyler Duff and associate Elizabeth Hitt.

Since 1997, Woodlawns Landscape Company has led the landscaping industry in Chicagoland, offering full-service commercial landscape management and personalized, year-round service to clients in northeast Illinois, northwest Indiana, and southeast Wisconsin. Mariani is the largest privately owned residential landscape company in the United States, and is an industry leader providing exceptional residential and commercial landscape management and garden care, as well as snow and ice management. 

The firm was selected for this representation in part due the continued successful national partnership with CCG Advisors based in Atlanta, Georgia a leading investment bank in the industry. Mariani and its funding sources were represented by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP of New York City, New York.

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