Chad D. Ehrenkranz

Since joining Kirkland, Chad has been involved in the following matters:

• Sun Capital Partners in its pending sale of ClearChoice to Aspen Dental 
• Jaws Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Barry S. Sternlicht and Joseph L. Dowling, in its pending $4.4 billion merger with Cano Health 
• Oaktree Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by an affiliate of Oaktree Capital Management, in its pending $1.6 billion business combination with Hims, Inc. 
• Accel-KKR in its acquisition of Forcura, a healthcare technology company
• Hellman & Friedman and its portfolio company, MultiPlan, Inc., in MultiPlan’s pending $11 billion business combination with Churchill Capital Corp. III
• Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC in its acquisition of Benefytt Technologies, Inc.
• TA Associates and Francisco Partners in their significant growth investment in Edifecs, Inc.
• Francisco Partners and its portfolio company eSolutions in its pending sale of eSolutions to Waystar
• Madison Dearborn Partners and Kaufman, Hall & Associates in Kaufman Hall’s acquisition of Change Healthcare’s Connected Analytics business
• FTV Capital in its acquisition of 6 Degrees Health, a developer of healthcare reimbursement technology
• Accenture in its acquisition of Creative Drive
• One Equity Partners in its acquisition of American Medical Technologies
• Paragon Healthcare Inc. in its sale to Peak Rock Capital LLC
• Radiology Partners on its $885 million acquisition of MEDNAX Radiology Solutions
• Colfax Corporation in its $3.15 billion acquisition of DJO Global Inc.
• Paragon Bioservices, Inc. in its $1.2 billion sale to Catalent Inc.
• Windjammer Capital in its acquisition of Hilco Vision
• FastMed Holdings I, LLC and certain of its affiliates (“FastMed”) in their deleveraging transaction. FastMed is a privately owned operator of over 100 urgent care clinics in Arizona, North Carolina, and Texas. The transaction resulted in the consensual equitization of approximately $80 million in funded debt and the paydown of approximately $148 million in secured debt
• Abry Partners in its acquisition of Anju Software, a Phoenix-based provider of software and data services to the life science industry
• Abry Partners in its recapitalization with Sermo a leading global social platform for physicians and largest healthcare professional survey company
• Accenture in its acquisition of Knowledgent, a data intelligence company
• Arizona Cardiovascular Institute; Center for Cardiovascular Research and Education (multiple entity transaction). Sale of majority interests in Arizona Cardiovascular Institute and Center for Cardiovascular Research and Education to a subsidiary of Fresenius
• Healthgrades, Inc., a Vestar portfolio company, in its acquisition of Influence Health
• The Jordan Company (TJC) in its acquisition of Vyne, a market leader in secure health information exchange and electronic healthcare communication management
• AssuredPartners in its acquisition of Tolman & Wiker Insurance Services, LLC of Ventura, California
• Golden Gate Capital in its acquisition of RVL Holdings, LLC
• Starr Principal Holdings, LLC (Starr Investment Holdings) in its minority investment in Radiology Partners Holdings
• Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) in its investment in Rave Mobile Safety (Rave)
• Lithium Technologies LLC (aka Khoros), a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, in its merger with Spredfast Inc., a provider of digital customer engagement solutions
• Francisco Partners in its acquisition of Qualcomm Life
• Cressey & Company in its investment in HHAeXchange
• Capsule Technologies in its acquisition of Bernoulli Health
• Kinderhook Industries-backed GlobalHealth in its partnership with Evolent Health to form True Health
• PathGroup in its acquisition of Pathologists Bio-Medical Laboratories
• Sun Capital Partners in its acquisition of Simply Beautiful Smiles
• Nordic Capital in its acquisition of Orchid Orthopedic Solutions
• TA Associates in its investment in Behavioral Health Works
• Family Allergy & Asthma, a Prairie Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of Kentuckiana Allergy, Louisville Allergy & Asthma, and Alleviate Allergy and Asthma
• Specialty Retail Shops Holding Corp. and its subsidiaries (“Shopko”) in their Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nebraska
• TA Associates in its investment, alongside GI Partners, in Netsmart Technologies, Inc.
• Civitas Solutions in its sale to Centerbridge Partners
• RiverGlade Capital in its partnership with Kids Care Dental & Orthodontics

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

• DentaQuest in its acquisition and development of numerous dental services organizations and dental insurance platforms throughout the U.S.
• ICV Partner’s acquisition of Outpatient Imaging Affiliates
• ICV Partner’s healthcare related restructuring
• Audax Group’s acquisition of Gastro Health
• Adeptus, Inc (NYSE: ADPT), an owner and operator of free standing emergency room facilities and hospital facilities in connection with the acquisition, development and JV formation of University of Colorado General Hospital
• Fulcrum Equity Partners acquisition and restructure of GWPC platform
• The Center for Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine LLC and NexGen Hyperbaric LLC in numerous joint ventures in the hyperbaric and wound care management space in multiple states
• Premier Oral Surgery in its development and add-on’s to its oral surgery/dental services platform
• Sterling Partners in connection with the leveraged acquisition of Grand Rapids Ophthalmology, and the creation of a related management services organization platform
• Grand Rapids Ophthalmology in its acquisition of ambulatory surgery centers
• RiverGlade Capital in connection with the structuring and formation of US Oral Surgery Management, LLC, a platform focused on the oral surgery sector, and the related acquisitions of multiple integrated oral surgery clinics
• Constellation Healthcare Technologies (Orion) in its bankruptcy and restructuring
• Baird Capital Partners acquisition of ReMed Recovery Care Centers
• The CORE Institute Center for Orthopedic Research and Education joint venture with Banner Health
• CICC in its reorganization and development of a multidisciplinary physician practice as well as ambulatory surgery centers and outpatient laboratories in multiple states
• Ascentist reorganization and syndication of multi-state ambulatory surgery centers
• Ascentist ambulatory surgery center joint venture with HealthCrest Management
• Discover Surgical Center development of Arizona ambulatory surgery center and office based laboratory
• North Dakota Surgery Center sale of majority interests to Surgery Partners
• Arizona Heart Health Center in its development of a multispecialty physician practice as well syndication and development of numerous ambulatory surgery centers and office based laboratories throughout the state of Arizona
• PokitDok acquisition of Employers Collective
• Greater Philadelphia Health Action in its acquisition of multiple pharmacies
• Akumin in its acquisition of Preferred Imaging
• 360 PT Management sale to Celerity Partners