Experience

• • Kelso & Company and its portfolio company, Accession Risk Management Group, in Accession’s $9.8 billion sale to Brown & Brown.
  • Wilsonart in its acquisition of Virginia Tile’s woodworking business.
  • Cohen Private Ventures in its sale of the Syracuse Mets and Brooklyn Cyclones to Diamond Baseball Holdings, an organization that owns and operates select minor league clubs affiliated with Major League Baseball.
  • Verizon in its $1 billion cash acquisition of wireless spectrum licenses in the cellular band, as well as select licenses for spectrum in the AWS and PCS bands, from United States Cellular Corporation and certain of USCC’s subsidiaries.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the purchase of Illinois Tool Works’ non-controlling equity stake in Wilsonart, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company and engineered surfaces company.
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in its acquisition of American Restoration, a provider of residential and commercial property mitigation and restoration services.
  • Hamilton Lane in the acquisition of a significant equity interest in Cosette Pharmaceuticals from Avista and its co-investors through funds managed by Hamilton Lane.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its strategic partnership with Elevance Health, bringing together assets of Elevance’s Carelon Health and CD&R portfolio companies, apree health and Millennium Physician Group, in a transaction valued at approximately $4 billion.
  • Hamilton Lane as lead investor in the formation of MiddleGround Capital’s $440 million MiddleGround Carbon CV, L.P. fund.
  • 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.
  • Pernod Ricard in its acquisition of a majority stake in Skrewball, a super-premium and fast-growing flavored whiskey.
  • Pernod Ricard in its acquisition of a majority stake in Código 1530 Ultra Premium and Prestige Tequila.
  • Providence Equity Partners in its minority investment of up to $500 million in the formation of The North Road Company.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a majority stake in the industrial businesses of Roper Technologies, which operates market-leading businesses that design and develop vertical software and application-specific products, in a transaction valued at $3.7 billion.
  • 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.
  • Providence Equity Partners in the combination of Blackboard, a leading global educational technology software and solutions company, and Anthology, a leading provider of proven higher education solutions.
  • Covanta in its sale to EQT in a transaction valued at more than $5 billion, in which EQT acquired all shares of Covanta common stock for $20.25 per share.
  • Toyota Motor Corporation, as an investor in Uber Technologies' self driving unit Advanced Technologies Group (Uber ATG), in its sale of Uber ATG to Aurora.
  • Kelso & Company, as part of a consortium with Arch Capital Group and Warburg Pincus, in the $700 million acquisition of Watford Holdings, a global property and casualty insurance and reinsurance company.
  • Verizon in its $6.25 billion acquisition of Tracfone, the largest reseller of wireless services in the U.S.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $250 million convertible preferred equity investment in Covetrus, a global leader in animal-health technology and services.
  • Toyota Motor Corporation in its $394 million investment in Joby Aviation, an aerospace company that is developing and commercializing all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to enable the deployment of fast, quiet and affordable air taxi services.
  • Dealer Tire, a Bain Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of Dent Wizard.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • One Rock Capital Partners in its acquisition of the Engineered Components and Systems segment of Actuant Corporation.
  • Elliott in its $683 million acquisition of Barnes & Noble, the largest retail bookseller in the U.S.
  • Toyota Motor Corporation in its joint investment, with DENSO Corporation and SoftBank Vision Fund, in Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group.
  • J.P. Morgan Securities, as financial advisor to CommScope, in CommScope's $7.4 billion acquisition of ARRIS.
  • Carlyle in its acquisition of an outstanding interest in NEP Group from Crestview Partners.
  • Toyota Motor Corporation in its $500 million investment in Uber to jointly develop Uber’s self-driving business.
  • 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.
  • Evercore, as financial advisor to CSRA, in the $9.6 billion sale of CSRA to General Dynamics.