Karsten Busby
Overview
Karsten Busby is an executive compensation associate in the Dallas office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He advises public and private companies, private equity funds and portfolio companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and divestitures and public offerings.
Karsten also advises clients on a wide range of compensation and associated tax, securities and corporate governance matters, including the design, disclosure and implementation of equity and cash incentive programs, employment, consulting and severance arrangements, change in control plans and retention programs.
Experience
Representative Matters
Oak Street Health in its pending $10.6 billion sale to CVS Health.
Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: WLL) in its $6 billion merger of equals with Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NASDAQ: OAS).
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $5.8 billion acquisition of Cornerstone Building Brands.
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR in their $5.3 billion joint acquisition of Cloudera.
Vista Equity Partners in its $4.6 billion acquisition of KnowBe4.
Acquisition by R1 RCM Inc. (NASDAQ: RCM) of Cloudmed, a leader in revenue intelligence solutions for healthcare providers, for $4.1 billion.
Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) in its $3.4 billion all-stock merger of equals with Maersk Drilling (CSE: DRLCO).
Noble Corporation in its acquisition of Pacific Drilling Co. LLC in an all-stock transaction.
Twilio in connection with Syniverse’s $2.85 billion proposed merger with M3-Brigade Acquisition II Corp.
Vine Energy Inc. (NYSE: VEI) in its $2.2 billion acquisition by Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: CHK).
Blue Source Sustainable Forests Co., a joint venture between TPG Rise-backed Anew Climate and various equity investors, in its $1.8 billion acquisition of various entities managed by The Forestland Group and its $1+ billion capital raise.
Peridot Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: PDAC) in its $1.67 billion combination agreement with Li-Cycle Corp.
Ryan Specialty Group (NYSE: RYAN), a provider of specialty products for insurance brokers, agents and carriers founded by former Aon chairman and CEO Patrick G. Ryan, in its $1.6 billion Up-C IPO.
BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) in its $1.378 billion business combination with GigCapital4, Inc. (NASDAQ: GIGGU, GIG, GIGGW).
Paya Holdings Inc. in its pending sale to Nuvei Corporation for approximately $1.3 billion.
TPG Rise Climate in the formation of Rubicon Carbon as a next generation carbon solutions provider and Rubicon Carbon’s $1 billion capital raise (including co-investment).
Redwire (NYSE: RDW) in its $615 million business combination with Genesis Park Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: GNPK).
Vine Energy Inc. (NYSE: VEI), in its initial public offering, resulting in an aggregate net proceeds received by Vine of $324 million.
ArcLight Capital Partners in its investment in Elevate Renewable Energy, a newly formed clean energy transition platform focused on the development and installation of utility scale.
Bain Capital in its $250 million growth investment in Cuisine Solutions.
LEMOINE, a Bernhard Capital Partners portfolio company and full-service construction management and disaster recovery firm, in its acquisition of Macro Companies, one of the largest emergency fuel and water suppliers in the world.
Lone Star Funds in a definitive agreement with global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) and private equity firm Stellex Capital Management, which sold Titan Acquisition Holdings, a bi-coastal leader in ship repair services and marine and heavy complex fabrication, to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds.
McDonald’s in its sale of McDTech Labs to IBM.
Quantum Energy Partners in its partnership with Houston Energy to form HEQ Deepwater with more than $400 million of equity capital commitments and HEQ’s first major acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico.
Resource Environmental Solutions LLC (RES), the largest ecological restoration company in the U.S., and KKR in connection to investments into RES by affiliates of Onex Partners and KKR.
Tailwater Capital, together with its portfolio company, Blue Tide Environmental, in the sale of a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental to Pennzoil-Quaker State, a subsidiary of Shell plc, to establish a joint venture that builds, owns and operates a global network of lubricant recycling facilities.
Tailwater Capital, together with Waste Management (NYSE: WM) through a newly formed joint venture, in its acquisition of a significant interest in Continuus Materials, a waste-to-product business that transforms discarded plastic and fiber material into engineered building products.
Tailwater Capital in its equity commitment to form Renovo Resources, a sustainable water treatment solution company.
TPG Rise Climate and TPG Rise, TPG-managed global impact funds, in the $300 million investment in Little Leaf Farms, the leading producer of packaged lettuce sustainably grown through controlled environmental agriculture (CEA) in the United States.
TPG Rise Climate, a global impact investing platform managed by TPG Global, in its 1/3 equity investment in Monarch Bioenergy, a joint venture between Roeslein Alternative Energy and Smithfield Foods that is a leader in capturing agricultural methane emissions and converting them into carbon-negative renewable natural gas.
TPG Rise, a global impact investing platform managed by TPG Global, and Element Markets, a leading renewable natural gas marketing and environmental commodities company, on the acquisition of Bluesource, the largest carbon credit developer in North America.
TPG Real Estate Partners in its acquisition of Cinespace Studios in Chicago and Toronto. Cinespace is the second largest independent sound stage platform in North America with best-in-class studio campuses.
Warburg Pincus and its portfolio company Citeline (formerly Pharma Intelligence) on the merger of equals with Norstella to form an end-to-end life sciences solutions provider.
Warburg Pincus on the acquisition of Pharma Intelligence from Informa PLC.
Warburg Pincus in its investment in NetDocuments, the leading secure cloud-based content services and productivity platform for law firms.
Prior Experience
OL Private Counsel, LLC
Vinson & Elkins LLP
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2016Texas
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Education
- Stanford Law SchoolJ.D.2016
- Brigham Young UniversityM.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering2013
- Brigham Young UniversityB.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering2011