Experience

• • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the formation of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund XII, an approximately $26 billion fund, its largest fund to date.
  • StanCorp Financial Group in its acquisition of the Life & Disability business from Elevance Health.
  • Kelso & Company in its investment in Pathstone, an independently operated, partner-owned advisory firm offering comprehensive family office services.
  • M&T Bank Corporation in the sale of its Collective Investment Trust business to Madison Dearborn Partners.
  • Providence Equity Partners in its minority investment of up to $500 million in the formation of The North Road Company.
  • Oak HC/FT in the formation of Oak HC/FT Fund V, a $1.94 billion fund investing in healthcare and financial services sectors.
  • TA Associates, in its acquisition of TouchTunes, an in-venue, interactive music and entertainment platform, from funds advised by Searchlight and Newlight.
  • Prudential Financial, in partnership with LeapFrog Investments, in its acquisition of a strategic minority interest in Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Limited, a leading provider of financial advice, retirement, investment, and holistic wealth management services in South Africa, by way of a bilateral acquisition from Mercer Africa Limited and a partial tender offer on the JSE to eligible shareholders.
  • Mizuho, a leading global bank, in its acquisition of Capstone Partners, a leading middle-market placement agent.
  • Smartly.io, the leading social advertising platform, in its acquisition of Ad-Lib.io, the creative optimization platform.
  • Carestream Dental, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company and leading provider of dental technology, in the $600 million carve-out sale of its Scanning Technology business to Envista, a leading global dental products company.
  • Oaktree Capital Management, a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, in its acquisition of Velocity Risk, a catastrophe-focused property and specialty insurance risks managing general agent.
  • Consilio, a Stone Point Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of Legility, a global legal services provider.
  • DoubleVerify, a Providence Equity Partners portfolio company and a leading software platform for digital media measurement and analytics, in its acquisition of OpenSlate, a content-focused measurement and analytics company.
  • International Paper, a global producer of renewable fiber-based packaging and pulp products, in the separation and spin-off of its global printing papers business, Sylvamo, and related financing arrangements.
  • Consilio in its acquisition of the Adecco Group’s legal consulting and eDiscovery Business Units.
  • Lone Wolf, a Stone Point Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of Propertybase, a leading global real estate and mortgage software company.
  • Nassau Financial Group, a Golden Gate Capital portfolio company, in the sale of its life insurance and annuity distribution company, Saybrus Partners, to AmeriLife Group.
  • Prudential in the sale of its retirement plan business to Empower for a total transaction value of $3.55 billion.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Solenis in the sale of Solenis to Platinum Equity at an implied enterprise value of $5.25 billion.
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in its acquisition of Sila, a heating and air company that offers HVAC, plumbing, indoor air quality, and home automation systems in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States.
  • DoubleVerify, a Providence Equity Partners portfolio company and a leading software platform for digital media measurement and analytics, in its $414 million initial public offering.
  • Stone Point Capital in its investment in the combination of Consilio and Xact Data Discovery.
  • J.P. Morgan Asset Management in a joint venture with Realterm Logistics to acquire a 53-property portfolio of last-mile logistic facilities located in 21 states across the U.S.
  • Ambac Financial Group, a financial services holding company, in its acquisition of Xchange Benefits and Xchange Affinity Underwriting Agency, property and casualty managing general underwriters.
  • Precision Medical Group in its investment from funds managed by Blackstone.
  • Stone Point Capital in its investment in Lone Wolf Technologies, the North American leader in residential real estate software.
  • Elliott Management in the restructuring of Windstream Holdings, a leading communications and software company.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $4.7 billion acquisition of Epicor Software, a global provider of cloud-based, industry-specific Enterprise Resource Planning software to industrial-focused sectors.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its partnership investment in Cheney Brothers, a leading family-owned and operated regional food distributor serving the Southeastern United States.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of Radio Systems Corporation, a market-leading provider of innovative pet product solutions.
  • Prudential Financial in its $1.9 billion sale of Prudential Life Insurance of Korea to KB Financial Group.
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners and Pathway Vet Alliance in the $2.7 billion sale of a majority stake in Pathway to TSG Consumer Partners.
  • Providence Equity Partners in its majority investment of €200 million in Smartly.io.
  • DoubleVerify, a Providence Equity Partners portfolio company and a leading software platform for digital media measurement and analytics, in its acquisition of Ad-Juster, a market-leading SaaS provider of unified data reporting and analytics for digital advertising.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its proposed $4 billion take private acquisition of Anixter International, a NYSE-listed company. (Terminated)
  • Prudential Financial in its $2.35 billion acquisition of Assurance IQ.
  • OEConnection (OEC) and Providence Equity in the sale of a majority stake in OEC to Genstar Capital.
  • Kelso & Company in its acquisition of J.S. Held, a global consulting firm focused on high value insurance claims and construction-related matters.
  • SouthernCarlson in its sale to Kyocera Corporation.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and TRANZACT in the $1.3 billion sale of TRANZACT to Willis Towers Watson.
  • Hojeij Branded Foods in its $330 million sale to Lagardère Travel Retail.
  • SunSource, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its acquisition of United Distribution Group, one of the largest distributors of industrial components and assemblies in North America.
  • Solenis, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its combination with BASF's paper and water chemicals business.
  • SunSource, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company in its acquisition of Ryan Herco Flow Solutions, a distributor of hydraulic and pneumatic fluid power products in the U.S. and Canada.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the formation of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund X, a $10 billion North America and Western Europe buyout fund.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the acquisition of Carestream Dental, an industry-leading provider of dental digital product lines and services, from Carestream Health/Onex.
  • Providence Equity Partners in its acquisition from General Motors and Ford of a majority stake in OEConnection, the established market leader in cloud-based technology solutions that facilitate the efficient location, sale, distribution and dynamic pricing of automotive parts.