Ariel Yehezkel
Professional Profile
Ariel Yehezkel concentrates his transactional practice on mergers and acquisitions where he represents private equity funds and private and public companies in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border business transactions including mergers, leveraged acquisitions, follow on acquisitions, divestitures, debt financing, fund formation, PIPE investments, joint ventures, minority investments and other equity arrangements.
Representative Matters
Advised clients on a wide variety of mergers and acquisitions transactions and other corporate matters, including:
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Apax Partners in its $570 million acquisition of Cole Haan from Nike, Inc.
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Apax Partners in its approximately $1.1 billion acquisition of Paradigm Geophysical
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Apax Partners in its approximately $2 billion simultaneous acquisition of Activant Group, Inc. and going private acquisition of Epicor Software Corporation
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Apax Partners in its $1.4 billion going private acquisition of The TriZetto Group, Inc.
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Apax Partners in its $571 million all cash going private acquisition of Bankrate, Inc.
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ABRY Partners in its acquisition of Trover Solutions from Tailwind Capital
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ABRY Partners in its acquisition of Source Medical Solutions, Inc.
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Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in the equity investment into Ozburn-Hessey Logistics
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Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in the reorganization of Paycom Payroll
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Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in the formation of Galeos investment platform
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The Carlyle Group in its acquisition of Service King Paint and Body, LLC
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Danaher Corporation in its acquisition of X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc.
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Danaher Corporation in its acquisition of Arbor Networks, Inc. from a group of VC funds
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Tektronix, Inc., a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation, in its acquisition of Mixed Signals, Inc.
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AB Sciex, a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation, in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of Eksigent Technologies, LLC
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Makhteshim Agan Industries, Ltd. in its $1 billion withdrawn acquisition of Albaugh, Inc.
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Cyalume Technologies, Inc. in its $120 million cash and stock sale to Vector Intersect Security Acquisition Corp., a special purpose public company (SPAC)
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Catterton Partners in its sale of Liberty Safe and Security to Compass Diversified Holdings
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Catterton Partners in its approximately $125 million cash and stock sale of Heartland Recreational Vehicles to Thor Industries, Inc.
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Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and Catteron Partners in connection with their respective investments in Culinary Concepts by Jean-Georges
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LNK Partners in its $250 million acquisition of the Au Bon Pain restaurant chain
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LNK Partners and MSD Capital in their respective $100 million PIPE investments into Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation
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Integra Telecom in its out-of-court restructuring of $1.3 billion of its outstanding senior and subordinated debt
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R.J. O'Brien in its out-of-court restructuring of $565 million of its outstanding debt
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Mobile Mini, Inc. in responding to activist stockholders' corporate governance proposals
Other Distinctions
Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois College of Law (2005)
Publications
"Foreign Corporations Listing in the United States: Does Law Matter? Testing the Israeli Phenomenon," New York University Journal of Law & Business
