Oak View Group in its acquisition of Stadium Club, the university stadium business of Invited.
iMotion Automotive Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (“iMotion”) (HKSE: 1274) on the initial public offering of H shares and listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Ares Management Corporation in its $100 million preferred stock investment in Vinci Partners Investments Ltd. (NASDAQ: VINP).
Engine No. 1 in the sale of its ETF business and infrastructure to the TCW Group.
Wynn Macau, Limited (HKSE: 1128) on its issuance of $600 million of convertible bonds.
Coral Tree Partners on its acquisition of AMI Entertainment Network from the Gores Group.
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in its strategic partnership with Primary Wave Music.
Oak View Group in its acquisition of Spectrum Catering, Concessions & Event Services, the leading food service and hospitality company that specializes in major sporting events, music festivals and artist and tour catering.
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its $2.6 billion acquisition of Intertape Polymer Group, Inc.
Ares Management Corporation in its acquisition of AMP Capital’s Infrastructure Debt platform.
Ares Management Corporation in its acquisition of Spring Bridge Partners, an investment firm focusing on GP-led transactions.
AP Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: APCAU), a SPAC associated with Advantage Partners, on its NYSE IPO.
Truebill, a personal finance app that helps consumers manage every aspect of their financial lives, in its $1.275 billion sale to Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT).
Ares Management Corporation and its portfolio company Convergint Technologies in Ares’ sale of a portion of its equity to Leonard Green & Partners and Harvest Partners.
Ares Management Corporation, a leading global alternative investment manager, in its Rule 144A offering of $500 million of senior notes.
Hello Sunshine on an agreement for a approximately $1 billion majority investment by two leading entertainment executives and backed by Blackstone.
Clearlake Capital Group-backed Janus, a manufacturer and supplier of turn-key building solutions and new access control technologies for the self-storage and other industrial sectors, in its $1.9 billion business combination with Juniper Industrial Holdings (NYSE: JIH), a special purpose acquisition company.
Guitar Center on its emergence from bankruptcy including a recapitalization.
Ares Management in its acquisition of Landmark Partners, one of the largest and most experienced investors in acquiring secondary private fund ownership stakes in the alternative asset management industry in a transaction valued at $1.08 billion.
Horizon Acquisition Corporation in its acquisition of Vivid Seats, a leading sports, concert and theater ticket marketplace. The combined companies are estimated to have an equity market capitalization of approximately $1.95 billion at the close of the deal.
AppFolio, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based business software solutions, services and data analytics, in its sale of MyCase, Inc., which provides legal practice and case management software solutions, to Funds advised by Apax Partners.
Forest Road in its three-way merger with Beachbody Company Group and Myx Fitness in a transaction valued at approximately $3 billion.
Ares Management in its acquisition of a majority interest in SSG Capital.
Neiman Marcus Group and affiliates in their pre-arranged Chapter 11 cases. The Company successfully completed its restructuring of over $5.5
billion of funded indebtedness in under five months. expense and preserved more than 13,000 jobs.
Forever 21 Inc. and its affiliates in their Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
Funds affiliated with Ares Management in their acquisition of Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurants
Aspida Financial in its pending acquisition of Pavonia Life Insurance Company of Michigan and its insurance operations.
National Veterinary Associates in its sale to JAB Investors.
Smart & Final Stores, Inc. in its sale to Apollo Global Management in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $1.12 billion.
Nexus Capital Management in its GP-led secondary sale of its new fund.
Ares Management in its conversion to a corporation from a limited partnership and its original IPO as a publicly traded partnership.*
Funds affiliated with LightBay Capital and Freeman Spogli & Co. in their acquisition of FASTSIGNS.*
Guitar Center and 99 Cents Only in complex debt restructurings.*
Environmental Resources Management Group, Inc., a portfolio company of Charterhouse Capital Partners, LLP, in its $1.7 billion sale to Omers Private Equity.*
Funds affiliated with Ares Management in their numerous acquisitions, including the acquisitions of Neiman Marcus Group, Smart & Final and Insight Global.*
Ares Management in its acquisition of AREA Property Partners, a real estate management firm.*
Ares Management, L.P. in its IPO and various debt and equity offerings.*
Suburban Propane in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Inergy, L.P. retail propane operations and related public equity offering and debt offering.*
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in multiple real estate investments in the United States.*
Grifols S.A. in its $1.7 billion acquisition of the blood-transfusion diagnostics unit of Novartis AG and related debt offering.*
United Airlines in its merger with Continental Airlines.*
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in its split-off of Mead Johnson Nutrition Company.*
Kraft Foods Inc. in its disposition of the Post cereal business to Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. in a reverse Morris Trust transaction.*
Weyerhaeuser Company in its disposition of the fine paper business to Domtar Inc. in a reverse Morris Trust transaction and its sale of the containerboard packaging and recycling business to International Paper.*
International Business Machines Corporation in various stock and asset acquisitions.*
*Prior to joining Kirkland