Emma E. Lange-Novak

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

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Emma E. Lange-Novak

Overview

Emma Lange-Novak is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she concentrates her practice on complex business transactions. She represents publicly traded companies, private companies and private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a variety of matters, including mergers, acquisitions, minority investment transactions, structured equity transactions, follow-on investments, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, SPAC transactions, recapitalizations and restructurings, venture capital investments, executive compensation and equity incentive arrangements (including complex incentive compensation and equity ownership arrangements for principals of investment management firms), and general corporate counseling and compliance.

Emma has represented public and private companies and private equity funds in transactions ranging in size from several million dollars to over $2 billion, both domestically and in cross-border transactions. Her practice covers a wide variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, financial and business services, consumer products, government contracting, manufacturing and energy. Emma’s clients have included Accel-KKR, Avista Capital Partners, Flexpoint Partners, Fort Point Capital, GTCR, Hellman & Friedman, Incline Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, ParkerGale, Parthenon Capital Partners and Summit Partners, as well as numerous portfolio companies.

Asset Management and Private Equity M&A Transactions

  • Avista Capital Partners, in connection with the sale of a minority interest to Capital Constellation, an affiliate of Wafra
  • Hilco Global in connection with the sale of minority interests to La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
  • Gauge Capital in connection with the sale of a minority interest to RidgeLake Partners
  • Great Hill Partners in connection with the sale of a minority interest to Blackstone Strategic Asset Management
  • Incline Equity Partners in a strategic minority investment in its business by Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Petershill program
  • Iron Park Capital in connection with the strategic partnership with Hunter Point Capital
  • Sentinel Capital Partners in connection with the sale of a strategic minority partnership with Blackstone Strategic Asset Management and RidgeLake Partners
  • STG Partners in connection with the sale of a strategic minority interest to Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Petershill program
  • Various private equity sponsors and asset managers on the sale of strategic minority interests to investors, including some of the largest transactions completed to date in this market, and with respect to upper-tier restructurings and succession planning

Strategic M&A Transactions

  • Accel-KKR in its sale of HighJump to Körber
  • Applied Composites in its acquisition of EnCore Composite Structures
  • Ascentis in its acquisition of NOVAtime Technology
  • Centerbridge Partners in its
    • sale of Aquilex Holdings
    • acquisition of Industrial Container Services
  • Edison Mission Energy in its sale to NRG
  • Flexpoint Partners and its portfolio companies in several transactions, including in its
    • sale of Jefferson Capital International
    • investment in MobilityWorks
  • GTCR in its £1.0 billion sale of Callcredit Information Group Limited to TransUnion
  • Hellman & Friedman in connection with its acquisition of Cardinal Health’s Cordis business
  • Hilco Global, a leader in asset valuation, monetization and advisory solutions, in connection with the sale of minority interests to La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
  • Hilco Global in connection with its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of the transportation and truck leasing company, 19th Capital, in a multi-million dollar transaction
  • Incline Equity Partners in connection with the acquisition of Profile Products, a global developer and manufacturer of engineered horticultural growing media, erosion control products and soil amendments
  • Jamf, the leader in Apple device management, in connection with its sale to Vista Equity Partners
  • Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of Advanced Personnel Management, a global provider of health and human services
  • Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of Carnegie Learning, a leader in artificial intelligence and adaptive personalized learning software in education and formative assessment
  • Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of LinQuest Corporation, a leading provider to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities of space systems technology solutions
  • Madison Dearborn Partners, CoVant Management and LGS Innovations in connection with the $750 million sale of LGS Innovations, a leading provider of secure networking and cybersecurity technologies to the U.S. Federal Government, to CACI International Inc.
  • MultiPlan, Inc., a portfolio company of Hellman & Friedman, in its $11 billion business combination with Churchill Capital Corp III 
  • Parthenon Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in several transactions
  • Summit Partners and its portfolio companies in several transactions, including its acquisition of
    • Ascentis
    • Integrated DNA Technologies

Associate, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP

Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Associate, Paul Hastings LLP

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • Illinois
  • Wisconsin
  • Colorado (inactive)

Education

  • University of Wisconsin Law SchoolJ.D.magna cum laude

    Order of the Coif

    Articles Editor, Wisconsin Law Review

  • University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.A., Political Science & Philosophy
    Political Science Honors Program