Aaron H. Lorber

Representative Corporate Transactions

• Accenture in its:
  
  • acquisition of Symantec’s Cyber Security Services business from Broadcom, Inc.
  • acquisition of Meredith Xcelerated Marketing (MXM)
  • joint venture with Apax Partners from the carve out of Accenture’s Duck Creek Technologies insurance claims, billing and policy administration software business
  • sale of the Navitaire travel systems business to, and strategic alliance with, Amadeus
• Resonetics, which is owned by GTCR portfolio company Regatta Medical, in its acquisition of the medical business of Hutchinson Technology Inc. 
• Thoma Bravo in its pending acquisition of AxiomSL 
• GTCR in its pending acquisition of Consumer Cellular, Inc. 
• Avaya Holdings Corp. in its strategic partnership with RingCentral, Inc.
• Micro Focus in its acquisition of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's software business
• Beaute Prestige International (an affiliate of Shiseido) in its acquisition of the Dolce & Gabbana line of fragrance, make-up and skincare products from Procter & Gamble
• S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. in its acquisitions of Sara Lee’s global shoe care and insecticide businesses, involving a highly complex carve-out of IP assets
• Summit Partners in its acquisition of Perforce, a leading provider of SCM software
• The Carlyle Group in its acquisition and subsequent sale of Metaldyne Corporation, a leading global designer, manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered automotive metal components
• Sun Capital Partners in its acquisitions of Polycom’s Spectralink WIFI and DECT mobile phone business, Perfect Timing, Protective Products, Captain D’s, Trulite, Curtiss-Wright’s downstream oil and gas businesses, Furniture Factory Outlet, Burner Systems, Sleep Innovations, and others
• Monomoy Capital Partners in its acquisition of automobile radar detector manufacturer Escort, Inc.
• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in its acquisition of Infiltrator Water Technologies LLC
• Zebra Technologies in its:
  
  • pending acquisition of Reflexis Systems, Inc.
  • acquisition of Motorola Solutions, Inc.’s enterprise business
  • pending divestiture of its WLAN devices business
  • acquisition of LaserBand LLC, a leading provider of patient identification wristbands and related products

Representative JV and Outsourcing Transactions

• Accretive Health in its long-term revenue collection outsourcing agreement with Ascension Health
• National Grid in its multi-vendor, multi-tower, transformational outsourcing of numerous information technology functions, including infrastructure, data center and cloud computing operations, email hosting, web-based collaboration, managed print services and service integration
• Discovery Holdings, a South African life and health insurance company, in joint ventures for life insurance IT platforms with John Hancock (U.S.) and Manulife (Canada)
• Fortune 500 MRO products supply company in its outsourcing of application management, IT infrastructure, service desk and messaging services
• Major food retailer in its outsourcing of various business process functions, including finance, accounting and payroll
• Fortune 500 industrial products supply company in its outsourcing of the implementation of its international enterprise resource planning system
• Fortune 500 media company in its outsourcing of various critical IT functions
• Major retail property REIT in its outsourcing of data center, data network, disaster recovery and distributed computing IT functions
• Numerous private equity funds in their outsourcing of investor reporting systems to cloud based service providers  

Representative Supply Chain Transactions

• Major telecommunications and mobile phone company in a critical supply agreement for ASICs and other integrated circuits and modules
• National paper company in a multi-billion dollar agreement for the supply of thermal and carbonless basepaper
• National window and door manufacture in connection with a critical supply agreement for glass pane components
• National roofing supply wholesaler in connection with a custom software development arrangement
• National dental products company in connection with a supply agreement for absorbent rolls and dental pads  

Representative Restructuring / Bankruptcy Transactions

• Dex Media, Inc., a leading international media and marketing company
• Flying J Inc., a fully integrated oil company with operations in the field of exploration, production, refining, transportation, wholesaling and retailing of petroleum products
• Fisker Automotive, Inc. (n/k/a FA Liquidating Corp.), the manufacturer of the first production plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

PILI Fellow, Illinois Legal Aid Online, Chicago Office, 2008

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago Office, 2007