Experience

• • Kelso & Company and its portfolio company, Accession Risk Management Group, in Accession’s $9.8 billion sale to Brown & Brown.
  • Navis in the formation of a continuation fund to acquire certain education assets from Navis Asia Fund VIII and its related investment vehicles.
  • Guardian, a life insurer and a provider of employee benefits, in its strategic partnership with Janus Henderson.
  • Prudential Financial in its $7 billion agreement to reinsure a portion of its recently originated Japanese whole life policies with a subsidiary of Prismic Life, a Bermuda-based life and annuity reinsurance company.
  • Oaktree Capital Management and Velocity Risk in the $525 million sale of Velocity Risk to Ryan Specialty, and sale of Velocity Specialty Insurance Company to FM, from funds managed by Oaktree.
  • Guardian in its strategic partnership with HPS Investment Partners, a leading global credit investment firm with $116 billion in assets under management.
  • Dover Corporation in its $395 million acquisition of Marshall Excelsior, a provider of mission-critical cryogenic and flow control components.
  • TPG as co-lead investor in a €1 billion+ single-asset continuation fund sponsored by Oakley Capital to acquire German university group IU Group from existing Oakley Capital vehicles. The deal won “Secondaries Deal of the Year in Europe” at the PEI Awards.
  • Cornerstone Building Brands in its acquisition of Harvey, a manufacturer of high performing windows and doors.
  • Kelso & Company in the formation of Kelso Investment Associates XI Fund, a $3.25 billion fund.
  • Prudential Financial in the formation of Prismic Life Reinsurance, a licensed Class E Bermuda-based life and annuity reinsurance company.
  • Kelso & Company and its portfolio company, BradyIFS, in the merger of BradyIFS and Envoy Solutions, which includes a new strategic and financial partnership with Warburg Pincus and its affiliate funds.
  • KKR in the formation of its KKR European Fund VI, an $8 billion fund focused on private equity investments primarily in the developed economies of Western Europe.
  • Stone Point Capital in the formation of Trident IX, a more than $9 billion financial services buyout fund.
  • Kelso & Company and its portfolio company, Eagle Family Foods Group, in their acquisition of General Mills’ Helper main meals and Suddenly Salad side dishes businesses, in a transaction valued at approximately $610 million.
  • KKR in the formation of KKR North America Fund XIII, a $19 billion fund focused on pursuing opportunistic private equity investments in North America.
  • Temasek in the establishment of Decarbonization Partners, an investment partnership with BlackRock.
  • IDB Bank, the largest Israeli bank operating in the U.S., in the creation of IDB Lido Wealth, a strategic partnership and joint venture with Lido Advisors, a full-service, independent investment advisor.
  • Individual FoodService, a Kelso & Company portfolio company, in its merger with Brady Industries.