Brooke Coghlan is a corporate associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Brooke’s practice concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities and corporate law matters. Her transactional experience includes public and private company acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions.
Experience
Representative Matters
Notable transactions since joining Kirkland, include:
ACON S2 Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company affiliated with ACON Investments, L.L.C., in its $250 million initial public offering.
AEA Bridges Impact Corp., a special purpose acquisition company founded and led by senior executives of AEA Investors and Bridges Fund Management, in its $400 million initial public offering.
Cinven and its portfolio company Bioclinica in the merger of Bioclinica with ERT.
Butterfly Equity in its acquisition of a majority stake in Orgain, Inc.
BioClinica in its sale of its clinical research site business to Accelerated Enrollment Solutions, a division of Pharmaceutical Product Development LLC.
Le Tote Inc. in its acquisition of Lord + Taylor.
Butterfly Equity in its $510 million acquisition of Bolthouse Farms from Campbell Soup Company.
WellCare Health Plans in its $17.3 billion acquisition by Centene Corporation.
Sentinel Capital Partners in its acquisition of Apex Companies, LLC, a water resources, environmental services, and industrial hygiene firm.
Notable transactions prior to joining Kirkland, include:
Snowy Hydro Limited: adviser to the Victorian State Government on its $2.077 billion divestment of its shares in Snowy Hydro Limited to the Australian Government.
Toll Holdings Limited: defense adviser to Toll Holdings on the $6.5 billion acquisition by Japan Post.
Woolworths Holdings Limited (South Africa): advised Woolworths on its $2.15 billion acquisition of David Jones by scheme of arrangement.
Woolworths Holdings Limited (South Africa): advised Woolworths on its acquisition of Country Road by off-market takeover.
Ridley Corporation Limited: advised Ridley on the sale of its subsidiary, Cheetham Salt Limited, to Hong Kong based CK Life Sciences Int'l, (Holdings) Inc.
Prior Experience
Ashurst, Melbourne, Senior Associate
Tanarra Capital (formerly Lazard Private Equity), Associate & In-house Counsel
