Matthew J. Donnelly, P.C.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Matt was involved in the following representative matters:

Private Equity and Fund Transactions

• Veritas Capital, in numerous representations, including:
  
  • its pending acquisition of Global Healthcare Exchange
  • its $2.45 billion acquisition of NCR Voyix’s cloud-based digital banking business
  • its $10.5 billion acquisition of Cotiviti with KKR
  • its $3.1 billion acquisition of the Wood Mackenzie business from Verisk
  • its acquisition of the CAES business from Cobham
  • its acquisition of Sequa Corporation from entities affiliated with Carlyle Partners
  • Finalsite, a Veritas portfolio company, in its acquisition of the Blackboard K-12 division of Anthology
• Numerous fund-level and portfolio company-level representations for KKR, Ares Capital, BTG Pactual, Crestview Partners, MidOcean Partners, Quad-C Management, Arlington Capital Partners, Trilantic Capital Partners, ATL Partners, Grain Management and FTV Capital

Spin-off, Split-off, Reverse Morris Trust (RMT) and Tracking Stock Transactions

• Biogen in connection with its spin-off of Bioverativ Inc.
• Citrix Systems Inc. in connection with the Reverse Morris Trust disposition of its GoTo business to LogMeIn
• Leidos in connection with the Reverse Morris Trust acquisition of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems and Global Services business
• EMC Corporation in connection with its acquisition by Dell for cash and tracking stock

Other Public and Private Company Transactions

• Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. on the $2.5 billion sale of its renewable energy business (excluding hydro) to LS Power
• Marriott International, Inc. in several transactions
• Essential Utilities in its pending $63 billion merger with American Water
• CACI International, Inc. in numerous representations, including:
  
  • its pending $2.6 billion acquisition of ARKA Group
  • its $1.275 billion acquisition of Azure Summit Technology
• Lupa Systems in numerous representations
• Liberty Media and related (and formerly related) companies in numerous representations, including:
  
  • GCI Liberty in its $8.7 billion acquisition by Liberty Broadband
  • Qurate Retail Inc. in its $2 billion dividend to public stockholders of a new class of cumulative redeemable preferred stock and cash
  • Liberty Media in its $1.5 billion reattribution of assets and liabilities among Formula One Group and Liberty SiriusXM Group
  • Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc. in its acquisition by Expedia Group, Inc.
• Mars Incorporated in several transactions, including in connection with the worldwide integration of Mars Wrigley Confectionery
• Two Sigma Investments LLC in connection with its participation in the formation of Hamilton Re Ltd. and the acquisition of SAC Re Ltd.

Tax Credit Financing and Energy Transactions

• Numerous representations of buyers and sellers of federal tax credits pursuant to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
• Numerous representations of tax-equity investors in solar and wind energy projects
• Sunnova Energy Corporation in several tax-equity funds and related credit facilities, as well as in connection with its acquisition of Lennar Corporation’s residential solar platform
• NRG Energy, Inc. in numerous representations, including:
  
  • a $900 million issuance of pre-capitalized trust securities
  • a $5.5 billion bridge financing for acquisition of Direct Energy, the first-ever U.S. issuance of sustainability-linked bonds
• EDP Renewables North America LLC in connection with tax-equity financing of 200 MW Meadow Lake VI and 199 MW Prairie Queen wind projects

Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Partner, Baker Botts LLP

Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP