Leawood, Kan. – December 18, 2025: Ron Holt, an attorney with Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, P.C., recently represented a career college with locations in Colorado and New Mexico in its successful acquisition of a Las Vegas-based cosmetology school.
In addition to this successful transaction, Ron and the firm’s other Higher Education Group attorneys also closed recent deals in which an Atlanta-based cosmetology school was sold to another educational institution and a cosmetology school in Pennsylvania was acquired by another institution. These deals are the latest examples of the law firm’s nationwide experience in facilitating mergers and acquisitions in the higher education space.
About Ron Holt: Ron has a national practice representing institutions of higher learning in mergers and acquisitions, litigation, regulatory matters and business transactions, including program reviews, administrative proceedings, student claims, state and federal court litigation, changes of ownership, and accrediting and state licensing agency disputes. In addition to higher education matters, Ron’s 44 years of experience include a broad range of commercial and general litigation matters in various industries regionally and across the country.
About the Higher Education Practice Group: The firm’s Higher Education Group attorneys work with colleges, universities, service providers and other academic enterprises nationwide to help them seize new opportunities, rigorously defend their interests, and successfully meet the challenges of a constantly changing business, regulatory and technology landscape. In particular, the group’s lawyers have special expertise with career colleges.
About the firm:
Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes serves and protects individuals, companies, estates and livelihoods. Based in Kansas City, the firm offers sophisticated representation in both the private and public sectors.
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