Experience

• • Presidio, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its acquisition of a majority stake in Contender Solutions, an Elite ServiceNow partner.
  • TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity platform of TPG, in its acquisition of a minority stake in Homrich Berg.
  • 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.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a significant ownership position in Foundation Building Materials, a specialty building products distributor.
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in its investment in Emler Swim School.
  • 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.
  • HealthEdge and its controlling shareholder, Blackstone, in the acquisition of Wellframe, a digital health management company.
  • Sun Life in its $2.475 billion acquisition of DentaQuest.
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in its acquisition of Educate 360 Holdings.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $650 million acquisition of Capco, FIS’s management consulting business.
  • A leading global law firm in conducting a sensitive internal investigation.
  • The Board of a Human Rights Organization in an investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the solicitation, acceptance and knowledge about certain donations to the organization.
  • The Board of Directors of CBS Corporation in an independent investigation of sexual harassment allegations against the CEO, senior news personnel and the corporate culture.
  • Kellner DiLeo in successfully settling a class action alleging systemic failure to pay overtime after successfully obtaining dismissal of all state law claims.
  • Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco, in defending action brought by Tyco seeking forfeiture and clawback of compensation and severance benefits.
  • A class of minority sheet metal workers in ongoing court supervision and administration of a back pay settlement arising out of a contempt judgment against their union, based on the union’s discriminatory practices and non-compliance with affirmative action orders. Debevoise handles this matter pro bono.
  • Director of Lyondell in an adversary proceeding arising out of its post-merger bankruptcy.
  • Morgan Stanley Private Equity in its acquisition of Creative Circle, one of North America’s largest independent staffing firms specializing in advertising, creative and marketing talent.