Experience

• Life Sciences Industry

  • HCA Healthcare in its acquisition of a majority stake in Brookdale Health Care Services, the home health, hospice and outpatient therapy business of Brookdale Senior Living.
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in the sale of Manna Pro Products, a recognized leader in the care and nurturing of pets, with roots going back to 1842, to funds affiliated with The Carlyle Group.
  • Vets First Choice in the financing aspects of its merger with the Henry Schein Animal Health business to create Covetrus, a new standalone public company.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its joint investment with Cardinal Health in naviHealth, the largest manager of post-acute benefits for health plans and a leading value-based care partner to health systems and providers.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a controlling stake in Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare, a leading global manufacturer of medical products.
  • Lannett in its acquisition for $1.23 billion in cash, plus additional contingent consideration, of Kremers Urban Pharmaceuticals, the U.S. specialty generic pharmaceuticals subsidiary of global biopharmaceuticals company UCB.
  • Pediatric Services Holding Corporation, the parent of Pediatric Services of America, in its sale to J.H. Whitney Capital Partners.
  • Healogics, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its acquisition of Accelecare Wound Centers.
  • Actavis in its acquisition of Nasdaq-listed Durata Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for patients with infectious diseases and acute illnesses, for $675 million plus contingent value rights.
  • Misys in the combination of its healthcare business with Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, resulting in Misys owning a 54.5% interest in Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions.
  • Kelso & Company in its $465 million acquisition of Del Laboratories, a company that distributes a wide variety of cosmetics under brand names and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products.
  • Misys in an investment agreement and marketing services agreement between its subsidiary Medic Computer Systems and Healtheon/WebMD.
  • Mitsui in its acquisition of the Thermo Trilogy business of Thermo Electron.
  • North Castle Partners in its acquisition of Avalon Natural Products.

• General M&A

  • Assurant in the $1.3 billion sale of its Global Preneed business to CUNA Mutual Group.
  • MassMutual in its $3.5 billion acquisition of Great American Life, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Financial Group.
  • Blackstone's Tactical Opportunities Group in its investment in SUNZ Holdings, a leading provider of workers compensation insurance and related services such as claims administration, policy administration, and customer support.
  • Stone Point Capital in its investment in Lone Wolf Technologies, the North American leader in residential real estate software.
  • MetLife in the $3.94 billion sale of its auto and home business to Zurich Insurance Group subsidiary Farmers Group.
  • Prudential in its sale of Prudential of Taiwan to Taishin Financial.
  • Aveva Group, a global leader in industrial software, in its $5 billion acquisition of OSIsoft.
  • Prudential Financial in its $1.9 billion sale of Prudential Life Insurance of Korea to KB Financial Group.
  • Schneider Electric in its acquisition of an 80% controlling stake in Operation Technology / ETAP Automation, the leading software platform for electrical power systems modeling and simulation.
  • Covéa Group in its $9 billion acquisition of PartnerRe. (Terminated)
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners and Cadence Education in the sale of Cadence Education to Apax Partners.
  • J.C. Flowers and AmeriLife Group in the sale of AmeriLife to Thomas H. Lee Partners.
  • Resolution Life in its $1.25 billion acquisition of Voya Financial’s individual life in-force business.
  • Risk Strategies, a Kelso & Company portfolio company, in its acquisition of two of Gowrie Holdings subsidiaries, Maritime Program Group and Gowrie Group.
  • Pernod Ricard in its $223 million acquisition of Castle Brands.
  • Syncora Holdings in its $429 million sale of Syncora Guarantee, a wholly owned subsidiary, to Star Insurance Holdings, an entity organized by GoldenTree Asset Management LP.
  • AFP Habitat in its acquisition of Colfondos from Scotiabank and Mercantil Colpatria.
  • RL LP in its sale of Lincoln Benefit Life to an affiliate of Kuvare US Holdings.
  • Alibaba in the joint venture of its AliExpress business in Russia with the Russian Direct Investment Fund, MegaFon and Mail.ru, aimed at integrating Russia’s key consumer internet and e-commerce platforms.
  • Manna Pro, a manufacturer and marketer of pet care and nutrition products and a Morgan Stanley Capital Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Hero Pet Brands.
  • Sirius Computer Solutions, a leading IT solutions integrator, and its majority owner, Kelso & Company, in the sale of a majority equity interest in Sirius to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
  • Atlas Merchant Capital in its investment in Ascensus, the largest independent recordkeeping services provider, third-party administrator, and government savings facilitator in the United States.
  • Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunities Group in its strategic minority investment in Annexus, a leading designer of annuities and insurance-based retirement products.
  • Resolution Life in its revised AUS$3.0 billion acquisition of AMP Life.
  • Prudential Financial in its life insurance joint venture with CT Corp in Indonesia.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a 40% ownership interest in Belron, which valued the company at €3 billion.
  • American International Group in its $5.56 billion acquisition of Validus Group, a Bermuda-based, NYSE-listed, (re)insurance company.
  • Cerberus Capital Management in its acquisition of Electrical Components International, the world’s leading manufacturer of wire harnesses, control boxes and value-added assembly services, from KPS Capital Partners.
  • Cerberus Capital Management in its acquisition of Cyanco International, the largest global producer of sodium cyanide.
  • Resolution Life in its sale of Lincoln Benefit Life to Global Bankers Insurance Group. (Terminated)
  • Kuvare in its acquisition of United Life Insurance Company.
  • Apex Fund Services in its sale to Genstar Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of Tranzact Holdings, the leading provider of comprehensive, direct-to-consumer sales and marketing solutions for insurance carriers in the U.S., from White Mountains Insurance Group.
  • Dover Corporation in its $780 million acquisition of Wayne Fueling Systems from Riverstone Holdings.
  • Hussmann, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its $1.5 billion sale to Panasonic.
  • Nassau Reinsurance Group, a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital, in its $217.2 million acquisition of The Phoenix Companies.
  • Sun Life Financial in the intellectual property and information technology aspects of its $975 million acquisition of Assurant’s Employee Benefits business.
  • Dover Corporation in its €425 million acquisition of Tokheim Group’s dispensers and systems businesses (including a post-closing license to intellectual property).
  • Kelso & Company in its acquisition of Sirius Computer Solutions, a leading national IT solutions integrator.
  • Providence Equity Partners and SRA in the merger of SRA with the government services unit of CSC, creating the largest pure-play IT services provider serving the U.S. government sector.
  • Independent Committee of the Board of Directors of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in its $365 million sale to Sequential Brands.
  • J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of AmeriLife Group.
  • Global Atlantic in the sale of its Bermuda and Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance businesses to BTG Banco Pactual.
  • Schneider Electric in the sale of its custom sensors and technologies division to Carlyle and PAI, based on an enterprise value of $900 million, and its reinvestment of approximately $100 million.
  • AXA in its acquisition of 51% of Mercantil Colpatria’s insurance operations in Colombia for COP 672 billion.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a 60% stake in John Deere Landscapes, a unit of Deere & Company’s Agriculture & Turf segment, in a transaction valued at $465 million.
  • Gogo in its $187 million initial public offering of common stock.
  • Goldman Sachs in the formation, separation and disposition of Global Atlantic Financial Group.
  • Oriental Trading Company in its sale to Berkshire Hathaway.
  • Booz Allen Hamilton, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, in its $2.25 billion leveraged recapitalization.
  • Ambev S.A. in its $1.24 billion acquisition of indirect control of Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana (CND) and its strategic alliance with E. León Jimenes to create the leading brewer in the Caribbean.
  • Goldman Sachs Reinsurance Group in its acquisition of the Bermuda-based reinsurance operations of Ariel Holdings.
  • International Lease Finance Corporation in its $228 million acquisition of AeroTurbine from AerCap.
  • Stone Point Capital and Hellman & Friedman in obtaining EU merger control approval for their $1.1 billion acquisition of Sedgwick Claims Management Services, the leading global provider of technology-enabled claims and productivity management solutions.
  • The Carlyle Group in its $2.54 billion acquisition of Booz Allen Hamilton’s U.S. government consulting business.
  • Alibaba.com in its acquisition of Yahoo!’s China business and Yahoo!’s acquisition of a 40% stake in Alibaba.com, in a transaction valued at over $4 billion. This deal was awarded the “IT/Telco Deal of the Year” at the ALB China Law Awards 2006.
  • Chrysler in its $435 million sale of New Venture Gear to New Process Gear, a joint venture to be initially owned 80% by Magna International and 20% by DaimlerChrysler.
  • Kinko’s in the $2.4 billion sale of Kinko’s to FedEx, awarded 2003's "Exit of the Year" by Private Equity Online.
  • Mitsui in its purchase of SunWize Technologies, a solar technology company.
  • Pernod Ricard in its sale of the Seagram's vodka brands in the U.S. to Young's Holdings.
  • Phelps Dodge in its $600 million sale of Columbian Chemical Company to One Equity Partners, an affiliate of JP Morgan Chase, and DC Chemical, a South Korean chemical company.
  • Rexel in its $725 million acquisition of GE Supply from General Electric.
  • Ripplewood Holdings in its $3.4 billion acquisition of RSC Equipment Rental from Atlas Copco.