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Denise Caplan is Of Counsel in the firm’s Corporate Group. She represents private equity investors, businesses and business owners in a broad array of corporate law matters, and regularly advises on corporate start-ups and corporate contracts.

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Deni assists clients in the analysis, structuring and documentation of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and restructurings. She is engaged in structuring corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and other business entities, employment contracting, and capital raising and documentation. In addition she provides general corporate counseling to middle market and large companies on a broad range of issues.

Deni also assists banks and private equity investors in structuring and negotiating their equity investments in companies they are financing.

Deni joined Goldberg Kohn in February 1986. Since 2016, she has been recognized annually as a Best Lawyer in Corporate Law by Best Lawyers. She has also been recognized as an Illinois Leading Lawyer by the Leading Lawyers Network, and has been honored annually as an Illinois Super Lawyer since 2007. Illinois Super Lawyers named her as one of its Top Women Attorneys in Illinois. In 2012, she received the Inspiration Award from the Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law.

Deni is one of the founders and current President of www.gkENGAGE.org, a not-for-profit organization established by the women of Goldberg Kohn that has supported dozens of women-owned businesses and donated to numerous charities in the Chicagoland area. She has been a speaker at the Women’s Business Development Center’s annual Entrepreneurial Women’s Conference.

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University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1983

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A., Business Administration, 1980

Goldberg Kohn Represents Sun-Times Media Holdings in the Sale of Sun-Times Media Group Assets

Goldberg Kohn and Mesirow Financial Deal Team Took Top Honors at the M&A Advisor’s 4th Annual Turnaround Awards

Goldberg Kohn Among Deal Team Finalists for 2010 M&A Advisor Awards

Goldberg Kohn’s ENGAGE Event Featured in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

Goldberg Kohn’s ENGAGE Event Featured in Chicago Lawyer Magazine

Denise Caplan Receives Inspiration Award From the Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law

Twelve Goldberg Kohn Attorneys Named 2014 Illinois Super Lawyers; Two Young Attorneys Also Named Rising Stars

Twelve Goldberg Kohn Attorneys Named 2015 Illinois Super Lawyers; One Young Attorney Also Named a Rising Star

Best Lawyers Honors 10 Goldberg Kohn Attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2016 Edition

Twelve Goldberg Kohn Attorneys Named 2016 Illinois Super Lawyers; One Young Attorney Also Named a Rising Star

Best Lawyers Honors 10 Goldberg Kohn Attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2017 Edition

Twelve Goldberg Kohn Attorneys Named 2017 Illinois Super Lawyers

Best Lawyers Honors 13 Goldberg Kohn Attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2018 Edition

Best Lawyers Honors 14 Goldberg Kohn Attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2019 Edition

Goldberg Kohn Represents American Roller in Recapitalization and Division Spinoff

Twelve Goldberg Kohn Attorneys Named 2019 Illinois Super Lawyers

Twelve Goldberg Kohn Attorneys Named 2021 Illinois Super Lawyers; One Young Attorney Also Named a Rising Star

Goldberg Kohn Represents Traverse Pointe Partners in Sale of Portfolio Company Redi-Bag, Inc.

Best Lawyers Honors 23 Goldberg Kohn Attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2023 Edition

Denise Caplan Appears on Panel at Youth Job Center’s W.I.L.L. Power Celebration

Best Lawyers Honors 16 Goldberg Kohn Attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America 2021 Edition; Richard Kohn Again Named “Lawyer of the Year”

Goldberg Kohn Attorneys Named 2024 Illinois Super Lawyers; Two Young Principals Named Rising Stars

Goldberg Kohn Represents Granite Creek in Diamond Blade Warehouse’s Acquisition of Peak Toolworks

Best Lawyers Honors 31 Goldberg Kohn Attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 Edition

Corporate Law & Transactions

Emerging Companies & Venture Capital

Commercial Contracts

Mergers & Acquisitions

Portfolio Company Services

Private Equity

Of Counsel

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<li>Advising family owned businesses in sales to private equity firms.</li>
<li>Advising private equity investors in making majority and minority investments in portfolio companies.</li>
<li>Advising businesses in making acquisitions.</li>
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Denise B. Caplan

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