Julia Knafo is a corporate associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Julia has been involved in the following matters:
Oak Street Health in its $10.6 billion sale to CVS Health
Altaris in its acquisition of Trean Insurance Group
Ping Identity in its $2.8 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR in their $5.3 billion joint acquisition of Cloudera
NortonLifeLock in its ~$25 billion combination with Avast
Third Coast Midstream, LLC, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, in its sale of an approximately 50% interest in Lighthouse Super Holdings, LLC, owner of offshore-focused midstream assets and a 50% interest in a new floating production system to be deployed in the Gulf of Mexico, to an affiliate of a global infrastructure investment vehicle
Lincolnshire Management in its sale of Schumacher Electric Corporation
Prior to joining Kirkland, Julia was involved in the following matters:
Acted as Canadian counsel to Alstom S.A. in its EUR4.4 billion strategic acquisition of Bombardier Transportation
Acted for Brand Industrial Services Inc. in its acquisition of AGF Access Group Inc.
Acted for Knight Therapeutics Inc. in its acquisition of Biotoscana Investments S.A.
Acted for the shareholders of Nelmar Security Packing Systems Inc., Plastixx Extrusion Technologies Inc. and Plastixx FFS Technologies Inc. in the sale of 100% of their interests to Balcan Plastics Ltd., a subsidiary of BDT Capital Partners
Acted for Novacap Management Inc. in the formation and fundraising of Novacap TMT VI, a US$1.865 billion private equity fund
Acted for Novacap Management Inc. in the formation and fundraising of Novacap Financial Services, a C$500 million private equity fund
Acted for MacKinnon, Bennett & Company in the formation of MKB Partners Fund II, a private equity fund