Emma E. Lange-Novak, P.C.

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

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Emma E. Lange-Novak, P.C.

Overview

Emma Lange-Novak is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice Groups of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a member of the Firm’s industry-leading Strategic GP Advisory Practice Group. She advises private equity sponsors, asset managers and investors on complex business transactions, including minority investment transactions, structured equity transactions, mergers, acquisitions, control sale transactions, seed and financing transactions, recapitalizations and restructurings, executive compensation and equity incentive arrangements.

As a member of the Strategic GP Advisory Practice Group, Emma has led representations of over 25 sponsors selling minority stakes to each of the significant investors in this rapidly evolving and developing space. She counsels sponsors covering a wide spectrum of sectors, geographies and strategies, such as buyout, credit, real estate, growth equity, infrastructure, secondary and venture. Emma regularly counsels the founders and senior investment professionals of leading private equity sponsors and asset managers in connection with complex equity ownership and incentive compensation arrangements, internal firm restructurings and firm institutionalization and succession planning arrangements.

In her M&A practice, Emma has represented publicly traded companies, private companies and private equity funds and their portfolio companies and led transactions ranging in size from $50 million dollars to over $10 billion, both domestically and in cross-border transactions.

Representative Clients

Advent International, Arsenal Capital Partners, Avista Capital Partners, Blackstone, Blue Owl Capital, Coller Capital, Gauge Capital, General Catalyst, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Greenbelt Capital Partners, GTCR, Hellman & Friedman, Hillhouse, Incline Equity Partners, JMI Equity, Madison Dearborn Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Parthenon Capital Partners, Peppertree Capital, Sentinel Capital Partners, Star Mountain Capital, STG Partners, Summit Partners, Vector Capital Management and Vision Ridge Partners.

Select Asset Management M&A, GP Stake and Related Transactions

  • Blackstone Credit & Insurance (BXCI) on a strategic minority investment in ITE Management, L.P.
  • Blue Owl Capital on the acquisition of the business of digital infrastructure fund manager IPI Partners, LLC
  • Blue Owl Capital in connection with its acquisition of Kuvare Asset Management
  • Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Petershill Partners in connection with its investment in Kennedy Lewis Investment Management
  • TorQuest Partners in connection with the sale of a minority interest to RidgeLake Partners
  • Brightstar Capital Partners in connection with a strategic minority investment in its business by Claure Group
  • Coller Capital in connection with the sale of a minority interest to Hunter Point Capital
  • FTV Capital in connection with the sale of a minority interest to Blackstone Strategic Asset Management
  • 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
  • Sentinel Capital Partners in connection with the sale of a strategic minority partnership with Blackstone Strategic Asset Management and RidgeLake Partners
  • Avista Capital Partners in connection with the sale of a minority interest to Capital Constellation, an affiliate of Wafra
  • Gauge Capital in connection with the sale of a minority interest to RidgeLake Partners
  • 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

Select Strategic M&A Transactions

  • MultiPlan, Inc., a portfolio company of Hellman & Friedman, in its $11 billion business combination with Churchill Capital Corp III
  • Hellman & Friedman in connection with its acquisition of Cardinal Health’s Cordis business
  • GTCR in its £1.0 billion sale of Callcredit Information Group Limited to TransUnion
  • Madison Dearborn Partners and its portfolio companies in several transactions
  • Parthenon Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in several transactions
  • Summit Partners and its portfolio companies in several transactions
  • 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
  • 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

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • Illinois

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