Experience

• • Emergent Cold Storage, an Elliott Management portfolio company, in its sale to Lineage Logistics.
  • Amazon as strategic partner to Yankee Global Enterprises in the acquisition of the YES Network from The Walt Disney Company at a total enterprise value of $3.47 billion.
  • Toyota Motor Corporation in its joint investment, with DENSO Corporation and SoftBank Vision Fund, in Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group.
  • Risk Strategies, a Kelso & Company portfolio company, in its acquisition of Krauter & Company, a leading specialty firm focused on the risk and insurance needs of private equity firms and their portfolio companies nationwide.
  • NCI Building Systems in its unit purchase agreement with Environmental Materials, LLC.
  • Elliott Management in its equity investment in Emergent Cold Storage, a global cold storage chain business.
  • Ply Gem and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in Ply Gem’s $5.5 billion stock-for-stock combination with NCI Building Systems.
  • A Japanese utility as a member of an investor group in the group’s acquisition of majority ownership interests in Kleen Energy Systems, LLC, which operates a 620-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant located in Middletown, Connecticut. As part of the transaction, an affiliate of Ares EIF will manage the Kleen Energy power plant on behalf of the investor group.
  • 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.
  • Globo in an offering of $200 million of senior secured exchangeable notes of Pontis IV mandatorily exchangeable for 5.125% senior notes due 2025 of Globo.
  • An affiliate of Globo in the merger of Zap, a subsidiary of Globo, with Viva Real, forming one of the leading digital real estate portal companies in Brazil.
  • Ambev S.A. in the acquisition of a 30% interest in Cervecería Nacional Dominicana (CND), the leading beer company in the Caribbean, and the restructuring of its joint venture with E. León Jimenes, in a transaction valued at $926.5 million.