Jaye Kasper
Overview
Jaye Kasper is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on advising private equity funds and private and public companies on complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, de-SPACs, carve-outs, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, executive compensation, incentive equity arrangements, governance and other general corporate matters. Jaye also advises private equity funds in the management of their portfolio companies, including financings, follow-on acquisitions and liquidity events.
Jaye is formerly an active member of, and now an advisor to, the Associates Committee of the Firm’s New York office.
Experience
Representative Matters
ABRY Partners and Inmar Inc. in the sale of Inmar Inc. to OMERS Private Equity
Altas Partners and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in the sale of Capital Vision Services, LP (operating under the “MyEyeDr.” Brand) to the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs
A&M Capital Partners in its:
- sale of ettain group to ManpowerGroup
- acquisition of CNSI
- sale of Centerra Group
- sale of Gabriel Brothers
Amer Sports, along with its investor consortium, in its $420 million sale of Amer’s Precor division to Peloton
The Carlyle Group in its $435 million acquisition of Unchained Labs
Cogeco Communications Inc. and Atlantic Broadband in the $1.4 billionacquisition of MetroCast cable systems
EQT Infrastructure on its acquisition of EdgeConneX
EQT Private Equity in its sale of Zemax to Ansys
Greenbriar Equity Group:
- in connection with its acquisition of Electrical Source Holdings and numerous add-on acquisitions
- and its portfolio company Whitcraft Group on its pending combination with Paradigm Precision alongside Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
iHeartMedia, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries in the $1.8 billion separation of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries out of the iHeartMedia Group in connection with iHeartMedia’s Chapter 11 restructuring process
The Jordan Company:
- in the recapitalization of global freight forwarding leader AIT Worldwide Logistics
- in its strategic investment in Invo Healthcare Associates LLC
- Parts Authority, a portfolio company of The Jordan Company, in its sale of a majority stake to Kohlberg & Company, LLC
L Catterton in its investment in Equinox Fitness Clubs
McDonald’s Corporation in its:
- sale of Dynamic Yield to Mastercard
- sale of McD Tech Labs to IBM
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. in its PIPE investment from L Catterton as part of Norwegian’s multi-tranche financing for aggregate proceeds of up to $2.4 billion
Polestar Performance AB in its $20 billion combination with Gores Guggenheim Inc.
Sentinel Capital Partners in its sale of Sonny’s Enterprises
Starwood Capital Group in its:
- $2.85 billion acquisition of Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust
- sale of BR Guest Hospitality to Landry's
Sycamore Partners in connection with its $6.9 billion acquisition of Staples, Inc.
Two Sigma Impact and BayPine in the acquisition of Penn Foster
Vestar Capital Partners in its:
- investment in Simple Mills
- investment in Information Resources, Inc., a leading provider of big data and market research, alongside New Mountain Capital
Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of WebPT
Clerk & Government Experience
Student Honors Program ExternUnited States Securities and Exchange Commission
Prior Experience
Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Summer Associate, 2014
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2016New York
Languages
- English
- Spanish
- Hebrew
Education
- Georgetown University Law CenterJ.D.2015
CALI Excellence for the Future Award
Senior Articles Editor, Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law
- University of Southern CaliforniaB.S., Business Administration2011Dean's List