A Gunster team led by attorneys Dylan Coons, Joe Chase and Brian Carr recently represented Flagger Force, a Blue Sea Capital portfolio company, in connection with its acquisition of Florida Temporary Traffic Control (Florida TTC). Other Gunster team members who assisted with the transaction include Craig Behrenfeld, Freddie Brackin, Holly Goodman and Brad McPherson.

South Florida-based Florida TTC is a provider of short-term traffic control services and equipment rentals to public utilities and telecommunications providers.

The acquisition of Florida TTC allows Flagger Force to expand its presence in the South and Central Florida markets.


Gunster Attorney Dylan Coons

Dylan Coons advises businesses and business leaders on all stages of the business life cycle. He specifically focuses his practice on representing companies in mergers and acquisitions and other complex commercial transactions. He also advises founders on entity formation, issuers and investors in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, entrepreneurs on joint venture and partnership arrangements, and business leaders on corporate governance and other corporate law matters.


Gunster Attorney Joe Chase

Joseph Chase serves as head of Gunster’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity team. He is dedicated to serving as a trusted advisor to business owners, private equity firms, companies in a wide range of industries, and other clients. He represents clients in connection with sales and purchases of businesses and general business and corporate matters. In addition to representing business owners and their companies, Joe also represents private equity firms in connection with purchase and sale transactions and myriad other legal needs.


Gunster Attorney Brian Carr

Brian Carr is an associate in Gunster’s West Palm Beach office and a member of the firm’s Corporate practice. Brian has experience representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies across a range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, divestitures, sell-side deals and growth equity investments. Prior to law school, Brian practiced as a Certified Public Accountant for a global professional services firm.


About Gunster 

Gunster, Florida’s law firm for business, provides full-service legal counsel to leading organizations and individuals from its 12 offices statewide. Established in 1925, the firm has expanded, diversified and evolved, but always with a singular focus: Florida and its clients’ stake in it. A magnet for business-savvy attorneys who embrace collaboration for the greatest advantage of clients, Gunster’s growth has not been at the expense of personalized service but because of it. The firm serves clients from its offices in Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Naples, Orlando, Palm Beach, Stuart, Tallahassee, Tampa Bayshore, Tampa Downtown, Vero Beach, and its headquarters in West Palm Beach. With more than 290 attorneys and consultants, and over 290 committed professional staff, Gunster is ranked among the National Law Journal’s list of the 500 largest law firms and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Diverse Law Firms by Law360. More information about its practice areas, offices and insider’s view newsletters is available at www.gunster.com.

About Flagger Force

Flagger Force is an industry-leading short-term traffic control company, with operations across the eastern third of the United States. It supports the nation’s expanding utilities, telecommunications and other infrastructure-centered needs.  Flagger Force utilizes a crew-centric operations model to help establish safe work zones. Flagger Force’s best-in-class resources and expertise have driven the consistent growth of its service capacity.

About Blue Sea Capital

Blue Sea Capital is a private equity firm based in West Palm Beach, Florida that invests in growth-oriented lower middle market companies valued up to $300 million. The firm has over $1.4 billion in assets under management and invests across three industry verticals: aerospace & defense, healthcare and industrial growth. Blue Sea Capital’s strategy is to partner with talented leaders and differentiated companies, typically as the first or second institutional investor, and deliver strategic and operational value-add that drives growth acceleration, industry outperformance and business transformation.

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