Alan B. Heisman
Overview
Alan Heisman is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Alan regularly represents private equity funds, private companies and public companies in a wide variety of complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, carve-outs, joint ventures and continuation vehicle transactions. Alan also advises private equity funds in the management of their portfolio companies, including with respect to follow-on acquisitions, equity financings and general corporate and governance matters. Alan was recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers in 2025 for his mergers and acquisitions practice.
Experience
Representative Matters
Private Equity Representations
- TowerBrook Capital Partners in connection with various investments and acquisitions, including:
- its single-asset continuation fund transaction for its portfolio company EisnerAmper
- its investment in Anthropic’s Series G funding round
- Trilantic North America in connection with various investments and acquisitions, including:
- the sale of its portfolio company Ortholite to Coats Group
- its investment in Royal Food Service
- its investment in TSC Miami
- Warren Equity Partners in connection with various investments and acquisitions, including:
- its single-asset continuation fund transaction for its portfolio company Meridian Waste
- its acquisition of The Townsend Company
- its acquisition of Ovation Holdings
- its acquisition of KV Power
- Patient Square Capital in connection with various investments and acquisitions, including:
- the consortium acquisition of Syneos Health for approximately $7.1 billion
- its portfolio company SOC Telemed in its acquisition of Forefront Telecare
- The Jordan Company in connection with various investments and acquisitions, including:
- the sale of its portfolio company Watchfire Signs to H.I.G. Capital
- the sale of its portfolio company Sabre Industries to Blackstone
- its acquisition of Heartland Home Services
- Sterling Investment Partners in its $1.1 billion single-asset continuation fund transaction for its portfolio company XKIG
- Welsh Carson and its portfolio company GovCIO in its acquisition of SoldierPoint Digital Health
- Clearwater Analytics in its carve-out acquisition of certain risk and performance analytics solutions from Wilshire Advisors
- Cressey & Company in its acquisition of HealthDrive
- Viking Global Investors in its $250 million investment, alongside Casdin Capital, in Fluidigm
- Education Networks of America, a portfolio company of ZMC, in its sale of CatchOn to Lightspeed Systems, a portfolio company of Madison Dearborn Partners
- Sentinel Capital Partners in its acquisition of TranSystems Corporation
- Cinven and its portfolio company BioClinica in its merger with ERT
- Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. in the sale of its portfolio company Simpson Performance Products
- Equity Group Investments in its acquisition of East Coast Warehouse
- Kinderhook in the sale of its portfolio company SCA Performance
- L Catterton in its strategic minority equity investment in FYidoctors
Public Company / Other M&A Representations
- HanesBrands in its $1.2 billion sale of Champion to Authentic Brands Group
- Tailwind Acquisition Corp. in its proposed $1.4 billion business combination with QOMPLX
- Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $13.1 billion acquisition of MyoKardia
- Intelsat in its $400 million acquisition of the commercial aviation business of Gogo
- Intelsat and certain of its affiliates in connection with their Chapter 11 cases involving approximately $14.7 billion in funded debt
- viagogo in its debt and preferred equity financings to fund its $4.05 billion acquisition of StubHub from eBay
Clerk & Government Experience
InternOffice of the New York State Attorney General2018–2019
Prior Experience
Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2018
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2020New York
Languages
- English
- Russian
Education
- Cornell Law SchoolJ.D.2019
- State University of New York at BinghamtonB.A.2015
News &
Insights
Kirkland Advises TowerBrook on Investment in Anthropic