Commercial, Securities and White-Collar Related Experience
- Represent healthcare company in putative privacy class action brought by users alleging the disclosure of personal information.
- Counsel to registered investment advisor regarding response to DOJ inquiry.
- Represent private company in investigating claims of director misconduct.
- Represent Home Partners of America in defending several class actions in state and federal courts around the country in which plaintiffs allege consumer fraud and similar claims arising from HPA’s rent-to-own contracts with tenants/purchasers.
M&A, Debt Finance and Capital Markets Related Experience
- Munich Re in its pending $2.6 billion acquisition of NEXT Insurance, a property & casualty insurer.
- Turn/River Capital in its pending $4.4 billion acquisition of SolarWinds Corporation (NYSE: SWI).
- Blue Owl Credit Advisors LLC, the investment adviser of Blue Owl Capital Corporation (NYSE: OBDC), and Blue Owl Diversified Credit Advisors LLC, the investment adviser of Blue Owl Capital Corporation III (NYSE: OBDE), on a definitive merger agreement between the two business development companies.
- Butterfly Equity on a definitive agreement to purchase North America’s premier luxury wine company The Duckhorn Portfolio (NYSE: NAPA) in an all-cash transaction that values the company at $1.95 billion.
- TPG Rise Climate Transition Infrastructure in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Altus Power (NYSE: AMPS).
- Patient Square Capital in its $4.1 billion acquisition of Patterson Companies (NASDAQ: PDCO).
- Gen Digital in its $1 billion plus contingent value right (CVR) acquisition of MoneyLion (NYSE: ML).
- Amplify Energy Corp. (NYSE: AMPY) in its proposed merger with certain Juniper Capital Rocky Mountain portfolio companies located in the DJ and Powder River Basins.
- Amcor (NYSE: AMCR) in its $37 billion merger with Berry Global (NYSE: BERY).
- JBT Corporation (NYSE: JBT) in its €3.5 billion acquisition of Marel (ICL: Marel), a provider of solutions, services and software to the poultry, meat and fish processing industries.
- L Catterton in its financing of its acquisition of AmaWaterways.
- Commure, a General Catalyst portfolio company, in its take-private acquisition of Augmedix (NYSE:AUGX).
- Clearwater Analytics in its $1.5 billion acquisition of Enfusion, Inc. (NYSE:ENFN).
- Vista Equity Partners in its $4 billion acquisition of EngageSmart (NYSE: ESMT).
- Vista Equity Partners in its $8.4 billion acquisition of Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR).
- Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., on providing a $160 million senior secured debt facility to B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY), a diversified financial services company.
- Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA) in connection with its $500 million offering of senior unsecured notes.
- Ferguson plc (NYSE: FERG) in connection with pending transactions to redomicile its ultimate parent company from Jersey to the United States.
- Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO) in connection with transactions to refinance $1.5 billion of notes.
- Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: NCLH) in connection with transactions to refinance $750 million of notes.
- SK Growth Opportunities Corporation (NASDAQ: SKGR), sponsored by an affiliate of SK Inc. in securities work in connection with its general annual meeting.
- The underwriters in the $125 million secondary offering of 20 million shares of common stock of LifeStance Health Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LFST), a portfolio company of TPG Global, LLC.
- Affimed N.V. (NASDAQ: AFMD) in connection with a secondary offering under its “at-the-market” offering program of $100 million of shares of common stock.
- General compliance, disclosure and governance advice for Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY).
- General compliance, disclosure and governance advice for Affimed N.V. (NASDAQ: AFMD).
- General compliance, disclosure and governance advice for Team, Inc. (NASDAQ: TISI).
- General compliance, disclosure and governance advice for OneSpaWorld Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: OSW).
- General compliance, disclosure and governance advice for Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO).