H. Thomas Felix, III

Since joining Kirkland, Tommy has been involved in the following transactions:

• Clearlake Capital Group in a $400 million senior notes offering to finance its acquisition of Intertape Polymer Group, a manufacturer of paper and film based pressure-sensitive and water-activated tapes, stretch and shrink films, protective packaging, woven and non-woven products and packaging machinery for industrial and retail use 
• Guitar Center, Inc., a leading retailer of musical instruments, lessons, repairs and rentals in the United States, in connection with its add-on offering of $200 million aggregate principal amount of 8.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2026  
• Ares Management Corporation, a leading global alternative investment manager, in its Rule 144A offering of $500 million of senior notes
• Clearlake Capital Group in a $625 million senior notes offering to finance its acquisition of Springs Window Fashions
• ASP Unifrax Holdings, Inc., a Clearlake portfolio company and a manufacturer of high performance specialty materials used in industrial insulation, electric vehicles and filtration, among other products, in its $800 million secured notes offering and $400 million unsecured notes offering to finance its acquisition of Lydall, Inc.
• Ares Management Corporation, a leading global alternative investment manager, in its Rule 144A offering of $450 million in Fixed-Rate Resettable Subordinated Notes
• Blue Owl Capital in its $700 million offering of senior notes 
• TKC Holdings in its multi tranche offering of $1.1 billion senior notes and senior secured notes 
• LiveVox in its merger with Crescent Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company
• Owl Rock Capital Group in a business combination agreement with Dyal Capital Partners and Altimar Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company, to form Blue Owl Capital Inc., an alternative asset management firm 

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

• Palomar Holdings, Inc. in connection with its $97 million initial public offering
• Underwriters in connection with the $102 million initial public offering of Greenlane Holdings, Inc.
• Underwriters in connection with the $530 million initial public offering of VWR Corporation
• Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. in connection with its $525 million follow-on equity offering
• Halozymeme Therapeutics, Inc. in connection with its offering of $805 million convertible senior notes
• Initial purchasers in connection with the offering of $1.9 billion senior notes and €1.3 billion senior notes by Netflix, Inc.
• Initial purchasers in connection with the offering of $300 million senior notes by Flexi-Van Leasing, Inc.
• Initial purchasers in connection with the offering of $600 million senior notes by The Brink’s Company
• Initial purchasers in connection with the offering of $450 million senior notes by Match Group, Inc.
• Initial purchasers in connection with the offering of $250 million senior notes by TMS International Corporation
• Underwriters in connection with the offering of $500 million senior notes by QEP Resources, Inc.
• Initial purchasers in connection with the multi tranche offering (including dollar and euro-denominated notes) of over $4.0 billion senior notes and senior secured notes by Avantor, Inc.
• Initial purchasers in connection with the offering of $600 million senior notes by CDK Global, Inc.

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, 2013–2018

DLA Piper LLP (U.S.), 2018–2021