David M. Klein, P.C.

Since joining Kirkland, David’s transactional experience includes representing:

• Ping Identity in its pending $2.8 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
• Datto in its $6.2 billion sale to Kaseya
• Constellation Brands in connection with pending stock declassification by its controlling stockholder
• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $5.8 billion acquisition of Cornerstone Building Brands 
• Vista Equity Partners, alongside an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, in its pending $16.5 billion acquisition of Citrix Systems
• Vera Whole Health, a portfolio company of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, in its combination with Castlight Health  
• Cerberus Capital Management and Highgate in their $1.5 billion joint acquisition of CorePoint Lodging
• Patient Square Capital in its acquisition of SOC Telemed
• Oak Street Health in its acquisition of RubiconMD
• Unifrax, a Clearlake Capital Group portfolio company, in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Lydall
• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR in their $5.3 billion joint acquisition of Cloudera
• Vista Equity Partners in its $3.8 billion acquisition of Pluralsight
• Honeywell in the resolution of its dispute with Garrett Motion, consisting of $1.2 billion of cash and preferred stock payments to Honeywell
• FinServ Acquisition Corp. in its $1.0 billion merger with Katapult Holding
• Delphi Technologies PLC in its $3.3 billion sale to BorgWarner
• On Deck Capital in its sale to Enova International
• Tribune Publishing in its cooperation agreement with Alden Global Capital
• Acosta in the following:
  
  • acquisition of Premium Retail Services 
  • acquisition of Impact Group
  • acquisition of The Core Group 
• TDR Capital in the following:
  • as controlling stockholder of WillScot Corporation, in the $6.6 billion combination of WillScot and Mobile Mini
  • its offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Target Hospitality Corp. not owned by TDR or its affiliates
• Murray Energy in connection with the corporate and M&A aspects of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case
• ICONIQ Capital in various corporate transactions, including (among others) joint ventures, minority investments and venture capital transactions
• LionTree Advisors as financial advisor to TiVo in connection with its $3 billion combination with Xperi

Prior to joining Kirkland, David’s transactional experience included representing:

• ADP in its successful proxy contest against Pershing Square
• Barnes & Noble in an activist campaign by Sandell Asset Management
• EXOR in its $6.9 billion successful unsolicited takeover of PartnerRe
• General Electric in the $21.4 billion sale of its BioPharma business to Danaher Corporation
• GP Investments in its acquisition of Bravo Brio Restaurant Group
• GrandVision in its acquisition of For Eyes Optical Company
• Great Wolf Resorts in its $800 million sale to an affiliate of Apollo Global Management
• HP Inc. in its $1 billion acquisition of the global printer business of Samsung Electronics
• ILG in its $4.7 billion sale to Marriott Vacations Worldwide
• Janus Capital Group in its acquisition of VelocityShares
• The Kraft Heinz Company in the following:
  • its attempted $143 billion acquisition of Unilever
  • its acquisition of Primal Nutrition
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Moy Park from JBS S.A.
• Performance Sports Group in its acquisition of the Easton Baseball/Softball business from Easton-Bell Sports
• NorthStar Asset Management Group in its joint venture with American Healthcare Investors
• Capital Senior Living in its settlement agreements with various investors
• Qualcomm in connection with an unsolicited offer from Broadcom
• Restaurant Brands International in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
• Sky Plc in its acquisition of a majority stake in Jupiter Entertainment
• Smith & Nephew in its acquisition of Osiris Therapeutics
• Time Warner Cable in its $45.2 billion stock-for-stock merger with Comcast Corporation (terminated) and in its response to unsolicited acquisition proposals by Charter Communications
• Wellspring Capital Management in its acquisition of Swift Worldwide Resources from Gresham Private Equity and in Swift’s subsequent merger with Air Energi Group