Waste & Recycling Representations & Warranties Drafting: An Independent Sponsor's Counsel
When the deal is waste and recycling and the question is Representations & Warranties Drafting, the structure decisions in the first 30 days outlast the next five years. This is where Jason Powell works.
Representations & Warranties Drafting on waste and recycling deals is one of those workstreams that looks routine on a checklist and decides outcomes in practice.
The typical waste and recycling platform sits at $12M to $150M EV with EBITDA in the $3M to $25M range. The thesis runs on regional hauler or transfer station consolidation. Permitted volume is the asset, not the trucks. Diligence the permits before the EBITDA.
How Representations & Warranties Drafting actually gets structured.
Anchor on a modern PE-style rep package, not an asset-purchase boilerplate.
Distinguish fundamental reps from general reps in survival and cap structures.
Negotiate knowledge qualifiers to defined-person knowledge, not constructive knowledge.
Coordinate the rep package with the R&W insurance carrier's underwriting.
In waste and recycling, layer in permit transfer applications filed before LOI signing as part of the Representations & Warranties Drafting workstream.
Drafting reps without reading the disclosure schedules. The schedules are where the risk actually lives.
"Reps and warranties are a risk allocation. Draft them like risk allocation."Jason Powell · Representations & Warranties Drafting
The deal is one thing. The capital that opens up after close is another.
The capital that opens up post-close, from refinancing to growth equity to strategic exit, runs through a small set of Wall Street relationships. That network is built in.
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Bring the waste and recycling deal. Get Representations & Warranties Drafting done right.
Direct counsel from a securities and M&A attorney with billions in structured transactions, the independent-sponsor-native playbook, and the capital markets network that opens up post-close.