Experience

• • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software, in the sale of a significant ownership position in Epicor to CVC, a global private markets manager.
  • Dover Corporation in its $395 million acquisition of Marshall Excelsior, a provider of mission-critical cryogenic and flow control components.
  • Pactiv Evergreen in the sale of its Pine Bluff, Arkansas, paper mill and Waynesville, North Carolina, extrusion facility, to Suzano.
  • Electrical Components International, a Cerberus Capital Management portfolio company, in its acquisition of Flex-Tec, a supplier of electrical harness systems, assemblies, and other critical engineered components for LED Commercial Lighting, Connected Lighting, and IoT markets.
  • Windstream Holdings, a privately held fiber and cloud based communications provider, in its merger with publicly held Uniti Group.
  • Five Arrows, the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co, and n2y in the merger of Texthelp with n2y.
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in its sale of World 50 and its related subsidiary companies to a single asset GP-led continuation fund investment vehicle managed by an affiliate of MSCP.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of Shearer’s Foods, a leading contract manufacturer and private label supplier in the snack industry in North America.
  • Temasek as capital provider in the $1.5 billion take-private acquisition of SP Plus Corporation by Metropolis Technologies.
  • Ascent, a global leading provider of expedited, time-critical logistics solutions and other transportation services, in its sale to affiliates of H.I.G.
  • Five Arrows, the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co., in its acquisition of a majority stake in n2y, a provider of comprehensive, SaaS-based solutions for students with unique learning challenges.
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in its acquisition of Allstar Services and RowCal.
  • INDICOR, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in the $670 million sale of its Compressor Controls Corporation division, a leading provider of turbomachinery control and optimization solutions, to Honeywell.
  • M&T Bank Corporation in the sale of its Collective Investment Trust business to Madison Dearborn Partners.
  • Transdev, a global provider of mobility services, in its acquisition of FirstTransit, an EQT Infrastructure portfolio company.
  • Carlyle, in collaboration with its life sciences franchise Abingworth and their development company Launch Tx, in its investment of up to $170 million in biopharmaceutical company Opthea Limited.
  • EQT Exeter, a purpose-driven global investment organization, in its acquisition of Redwood Capital Group, an asset manager in the multifamily residential property space.
  • Carlyle in its $2 billion acquisition of Abingworth, a life sciences investment firm.
  • Dover Corporation, a diversified global manufacturer and global services provider, in its $631 million acquisition of Engineered Controls International.
  • Consilio, a Stone Point Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of Legility, a global legal services provider.
  • Kelso & Company in its acquisition of a majority interest in ReSource Pro, a market leader in business process solutions for the P&C insurance industry.
  • Carlyle in its acquisition of a majority stake in Saama, a leading AI-driven intelligent clinical cloud company that enables the life sciences industry to conduct faster and safer clinical developments and regulatory programs.
  • Blackstone in its investment in Medable, the leading cloud platform for patient-centered clinical research, valuing Medable at $2.1 billion.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $6 billion acquisition and subsequent combination of Fort Dearborn and Multi-Color Corporation, to create the world's largest label solutions company.
  • Artera, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company and one of the nation’s largest providers of integrated infrastructure services to natural gas and electric industries, in its acquisition of Feeney Utility Services Group.
  • Blackstone as a lead investor in the formation of Hydrogen Health.
  • The Dolan family in MSG Entertainment’s acquisition of MSG Networks.
  • Blackstone in its investment in Ginger, a leader in on-demand behavioral healthcare.
  • CPP Investments as lead investor in a $400 million Series C financing for insitro, a machine learning-driven drug discovery and development company.
  • Carlyle in the $2.5 billion merger of Grand Rounds and Doctor on Demand.
  • Brigade Capital Management, as debtor-in-possession lender in providing a $95 million DIP facility and a $100 million exit facility to Alpha Media in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
  • 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.
  • Precision Medical Group in its $2.4 billion sale to Blackstone.
  • Cornell Capital and Hudson Structured Capital Management in their acquisition of a majority interest in Vault Insurance.
  • Carlyle in its majority investment in TriNetX, a leading global health research network optimizing clinical research to bring new therapies to market faster.
  • Elliott in the restructuring of Windstream Holdings, a leading communications and software company.
  • Carlyle in its $175 million investment in Grand Rounds, a leader in healthcare quality and clinical navigation.
  • Artera, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company and one of the nation’s largest providers of integrated infrastructure services to natural gas and electric industries, in its acquisition of Otis Eastern Service.
  • PowerTeam Services, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its purchase of Miller Pipeline and Minnesota Limited for $850 million in cash.
  • Johnson & Johnson in its acquisition of TARIS, a biotechnology company specializing in the development of a novel drugs and delivery technologies for the treatment of cancer.
  • Kelso & Company in its acquisition of a majority equity interest in Individual FoodService from Sole Source Capital.
  • TPG Growth in its takeover of the existing assets of the Abraaj Group’s $1 billion Global Healthcare Fund. The deal saw Debevoise win the Specialist Deal Legal Advisor category at the Private Equity Africa Awards.
  • Kelso & Company in its sale of PowerTeam Services to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
  • P2 Capital, alongside Silver Lake, in the $3.5 billion acquisition of Blackhawk, a global financial technology company.
  • Precision Medicine Group in a new $275 million investment.
  • Sawai Pharmaceutical in the sale of a minority stake of its U.S. subsidiary, Upsher-Smith Laboratories, to Japanese trading house Sumitomo.
  • Pacific Life and Aviation Capital Group in the minority investment by Tokyo Century in Aviation Capital Group, a transaction which won the Airline Economics Aviation 100 “2017 Overall Equity Deal of the Year” award.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $500 million preferred stock investment in Beacon Roofing Supply’s $2.625 billion acquisition of Allied Building Products.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $650 million acquisition of Capco, FIS’s management consulting business.
  • Sawai Pharmaceutical in its $1.5 billion acquisition of the generic pharmaceuticals business of Upsher-Smith Laboratories.
  • Providence Service Corporation in a strategic partnership with Frazier Healthcare Partners in Matrix Medical Network.
  • American Coastal Insurance Company and its parent, RDX Holding Corp., in its merger with United Insurance Holdings Corp.
  • Evercore in the transfer of control of its Mexican private equity business, Evercore Mexico Capital Partners, to Glisco Partners.
  • J.C. Flowers and Ascensus in the sale of Ascensus to Genstar Capital and Aquiline Capital Partners.
  • Stone Point Capital in its significant equity investment in specialty insurance broker Alliant Insurance Services, with KKR retaining a significant equity investment in the business.
  • Roofing Supply Group, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its $1.1 billion sale to Beacon Roofing Supply.
  • 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.
  • Wilsonart, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its acquisition of Durcon, a manufacturer of laboratory-grade work surfaces.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisitions of Brand Energy and Harsco Infrastructure in a combined transaction valued at $2.5 billion.
  • Tribune Media Company in its spin-off of Tribune Publishing Company.
  • HarbourVest Partners in a newly established fund managed by Nova Capital with equity provided by Nova Capital’s limited partners, including Nova, and secondary funds managed by HarbourVest Partners and Landmark Partners, which fund was established to acquire a portfolio of businesses within Newell Rubbermaid’s Hardware group in North America for $214 million.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $1.05 billion acquisition of a majority ownership stake in Wilsonart International Holdings, the decorative surfaces unit of Illinois Tool Works.
  • Carlyle in its $3.3 billion acquisition of Getty Images.
  • Ronald Lauder in a series of agreements between Central European Media Enterprises ("CME") and its major shareholders, Time Warner and Ronald Lauder, to enable CME to fund tender offers to purchase up to an aggregate of $300 million of its debt.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of Roofing Supply Group, a distributor of residential and non-residential roofing materials.