Jonathan Gerken is a corporate associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Experience
Representative Matters
Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
GTCR in the $1.8 billion sale of Optimal Blue, LLC to Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE: BKI).
Madison Dearborn Partners in its 2020 take-private acquisition of Benefytt Technologies, Inc.
One Equity Partners in its acquisition of American Medical Technologies.
Propel Insurance in its acquisition of HCS Insurance Partners.
SphereCommerce, LLC, a Waud Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of HealthiPASS, Inc.
Thoma Bravo in its 2020 take-private acquisition of Instructure, Inc.
Thoma Bravo in its acquisition of Syntellis Performance Solutions.
Debt Finance
Wind Point Partners in its acquisition of Handgards Inc.
Restructuring
Frontier Communications Corporation and its 103 debtor subsidiaries in their prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. With over $17.5 billion in outstanding funded debt, Frontier’s Chapter 11 cases were among the largest filed in 2020.
