For over 25 years, Ted has guided clients in relation to the strategic US and cross-border M&A transactions, commercial matters, financings and business matters.
Ted's extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions spans hundreds of deals, a wide variety of industries / sectors, and 60+ jurisdictions. Ted regularly represents corporate buyers and sellers, private equity firms, management teams, and multinational institutions on, inter alia, complex M&A transactions, investment rounds, asset disposal, spin-outs, leveraged recaps, and corporate restructurings.
In terms of private capital, Ted counsels private equity funds, growth capital and venture funds, family offices, institutional LPs, and GPs / management teams on their private capital investments, fund formations, refinancings, restructurings, and matters of dispute. In so doing, Ted leverages his in-house private equity experience to drive value for private capital clients.
In addition to transactional work, Ted regularly structures and negotiates complex corporate-commercial contractual arrangements – including, inter alia, joint ventures and strategic partnerships; profit sharing arrangements; and consortium / co-investments agreements. He also regularly advises clients in regard to reorganizations, dissolutions, corporate governance, contractual disputes, and other day-to-day business / contractual matters.
Ted is licensed in the states of Illinois and California, and has been a recognized attorney in The Legal 500 M&A for Middle-Market Transactions (2022 - 2025), and for Technology Transactions (2023 and 2024) and in Chambers for Corporate M&A/Private Equity (2026). He and his team have also won ‘Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year’ Awards from The M&A Advisor in 2024 and 2025. Ted currently serves as Co-Chair of Eversheds’ USA Private Equity Sub-Group. Prior to joining Eversheds, Ted served as the Chair of Cross-Border Transactions, Head of International Private Equity and Head of Private Equity (CEEMENA) of market-leading ‘Magic-Circle’ and ‘AMLAW’ 50 law firms.
‘Ted Cominos is not just very good at legal matters, but also at solving problems and getting deals done. I cannot recommend him enough.’ –Legal 500 USA 2024
- Recognized The Legal 500 M&A: Middle-Market Transactions (2022-2025) and Technology Transactions (2023 & 2024)
- Recognized Chambers: Corporate M&A/Private Equity (2026)
- Winner: Cross-Border Deal of the Year by The M&A Advisor (2024 and 2025)
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- Represented ASKO HOLDINGS, on its acquisition of Custom Equipment, a market-leading manufacturer and distributer of scissor lift construction equipment.
- Represented BASAK TRAKTOR, a global manufacturer of heavy construction and agricultural equipment, on its acquisition of Buhler Industries Inc. (a publicly traded Canadian company and 50+ year-old, market-leading manufacturer and distributer of agricultural machinery products - including tractors, tillage, mowers, bale carriers, and snowblowers).
- Represented Element Solutions, a global and diversified specialty chemical technology company, in the sale of its flexographic printing plate business across 14 jurisdictions to private-equity backed XSYS Inc
- Represented DIAKRIT AB, a leader in global real estate marketing, on its acquisition of Virtuance, LLC, a US-based leading real estate photography provider.
- Advised GlobalFood Tech, the provider of a market-leading platform enabling restaurants around the world to easily create websites, ordering menus, and branded mobile apps, in its acquisition by Oracle Corporation.
- Ethical & Practical Considerations of Engaging Local Legal Counsel, CLE Esquire
- Practical Considerations of Cross-Border M&A, CLE Esquire
- PE Fund Launch Checklist: Guideline for Establishing a New Private Investment Fund, LexisNexis Practice Insights
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the areas of mergers and acquisitions: middle-market (2022-2025); Mergers and Acquisitions: Technology (2023) and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology Transactions (2024)
- Recognized by Chambers in the areas of Corporate M&A and Private Equity (2026)
- Winner: Cross-Border M&A Deal of the Year by The M&A Advisor (2024 and 2025)
- Member, California State Bar Association
- Member, Illinois State Bar Association
- Certified FINRA Arbitrator
- Member, American Bar Association
- Illinois
- J.D., Monterey College of Law
- M.B.A., Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, (International Management)