Miranda Goot
Miranda is an Associate in the Business and Finance Group where she focuses on the areas of finance, mergers and acquisitions, nonprofit organizations and general corporate law. Miranda guides buyers and sellers through the complex legal landscape of acquisitions, safeguarding clients’ interests from due diligence to closing. She also helps corporate borrowers and private equity sponsors obtain funding to meet working capital needs and finance acquisitions, and she advises for-profit and nonprofit entities on corporate governance and contract negotiation.
Prior to joining Kleinbard, Miranda was an associate in the corporate department at a mid-sized law firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Miranda is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she served as Executive Comments Editor of the North Carolina Law Review. During her time in law school, she counseled local non-profits through the school’s Community Development Clinic, represented servicemembers through the Military and Veterans Law Clinic, and externed for Judge James A. Wynn of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Representative Matters
- Represented a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services in strategic acquisitions of insurance brokers and insurance software companies.
- Represented a national health care corporation in its divestiture of cardiac cath labs and ambulatory surgery centers.
- Represented a software and payments technology company in multiple strategic acquisitions of technology and information solutions companies in the ground transportation and automotive industries.
- Represented a private equity-backed company in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of a roofing company.
- Represented the sellers of a startup automated testing technology company in the merger into an instructional content company.
- Represented a public company in its acquisition of HVAC companies.
- Represented a private investment fund and its portfolio companies in financing transactions, using senior credit facilities and subordinated debt investments to fund platform and add-on acquisitions across various industries, including home garden e-commerce, customer merchandising, luxury residential landscaping, IT managed service providers and infrastructure services providers.
- Represented money center banks in administrative agent and lead arranger roles for investment grade credit facilities.
- Represented a money center bank in a lead agent role in connection with a $14 billion bridge financing for the acquisition of a public company and an additional $6.3 billion in revolving credit and term loan facilities in support of the acquisition.
- Represented a small business investment company in its co-investment (mezzanine debt) in a waste management portfolio company.
- Drafted an independent contractor agreement, master services agreement, publicity release
and liability waiver, and a talent agency agreement and reviewed governing documents for historically marginalized and under-resourced small business owners and entrepreneurs through the Charlotte Legal Initiative to Mobilize Businesses program. - Represented guardians in four custody hearings, drafted complaints, conducted interviews and successfully obtained favorable custody orders that enable the children to apply for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, through the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy.
- Prepared wills, financial powers of attorney and health care powers of attorney for first responders and teachers at Wills for Heroes Clinics hosted by the North Carolina Bar Foundation.
- Reviewed dozens of criminal records and petitioned for expungement of the criminal records at various clinics through the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy and Mecklenburg Council of Elders.
- Evaluated driving records and drafted dozens of letters to clients detailing eligibility for license restoration through the North Carolina Pro Bono Resource Center Driver’s License Restoration Project.
Recognition & Accomplishments
- The Best Lawyers in America: One to Watch (2025-2027)
- Mecklenburg Access to Justice Pro Bono Partners Program, Pro Bono Honor Roll (2023)
- North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society (2022-2024)
Community Activities
- Charlotte Triage, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Champion (2023-2024)
- Board Observer Program, Philadelphia Bar Foundation (2026)