Savannah Malnar

Since joining Kirkland, Savannah has been involved in various matters, including advising:

• Nexstar Media Group (Nasdaq: NXST) in its $6.2 billion acquisition of TEGNA (NYSE: TEGNA), a provider of local news.
• Consortium of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and EQT in its pending $33.4 billion acquisition of AES (NYSE: AES), a provider of clean energy to corporations, and GIP in its consortium arrangement to acquire AES.
• KKR on various matters including:
  • its recapitalization of DentalXChange, a provider of revenue cycle management solutions for the dental market.
  • Apollo, in a $3 billion convertible preferred stock investment in Keurig Dr Pepper (Nasdaq: KDP), a beverage company.
  • Corel Corporation in its separation into two independent companies and in the sale of its portfolio of creativity and productivity software and related brands to Vector Capital Management.
• Talen Energy on various matters including:
  • its combined $3.8 billion acquisitions of Moxie Freedom Energy Center in Pennsylvania from Caithness Energy and the Guernsey Power Station in Ohio from Caithness Energy and BlackRock.
  • the sale of its 226 MW portfolio of natural gas-fired power generation assets to PowerTransitions.
  • its pending $3.45 billion acquisition of PJM Natural Gas Assets, which includes approximately 2.6 gigawatts of natural gas generation, from Energy Capital Partners.
• Madison Dearborn Partners on various matters including:
  • its investment in NextGen Healthcare, a provider of healthcare technology and data solutions.
  • Tornante Company-backed The Topps Company in the sale of Topps trading cards to Fanatics.
  • its sale of Solis Mammography.
• EQT on various matters including:
  • its $5.2 billion acquisition of Tug Hill’s upstream assets and XcL Midstream’s gathering and processing assets.
  • its $35 billion merger with Equitrans Midstream Corp. to create a natural gas business.
  • its $1.25 billion sale of Natural Gas Assets to Equinor.
  • its formation of $8.8 billion midstream joint venture with Blackstone Credit & Insurance.
• ONEOK on various matters including:
  • its $2.6 billion acquisition of all equity interests in Medallion Midstream, LLC.
  • its acquisition of publicly held common units in EnLink Midstream.
• Gryphon Investors in its $1.6 billion sale of Shermco, a provider of electrical testing, engineering, maintenance and repair, to Blackstone.
• Diversified Energy (LSE: DEC, NYSE: DEC) in its $550 million acquisition of Canvas Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration and production company.
• EPIC Midstream Holdings in the $1.33 billion sale of its 45% operated interest in EPIC Crude to Plains All American Pipeline (Nasdaq: PAA).
• Atlantic Street Capital in its sale of GAT Airline Ground Support, a provider of ground handling and catering services to the airline industry, to PrimeFlight Aviation Services.
• Harvest Partners and MAI Capital Management in the pending sale of MAI, a registered investment advisor, to Carlyle, in a transaction valuing MAI at $2.8 billion.
• Global Infrastructure Partners, an independent infrastructure fund manager, in its $12.5 billion sale to BlackRock.
• Integrated Oncology Network (ION) on its $1.1 billion sale to Cardinal Health.
• CD&R’s Veritiv on its acquisition of Orora Packaging Solutions.
• Blackstone’s $2.2 billion sale of Lightstone Generation to Energy Capital Partners.
• Ascend Capital Partners on its acquisition of REP Behavioral Health.
• Amplify on its combination with Juniper Capital’s upstream rocky mountain portfolio companies.
• Ares-Backed EPIC Y-Grade, LP on its sale of natural gas liquids business to Phillips 66 for total cash consideration of $2.2 billion.
• Emerald Lake on its sale of Inno-Pak to Handgards.
• Warburg Pincus-Backed ModMed on its majority growth investment from Clearlake.
• Brookfield Infrastructure on its acquisition of Colonial Enterprises for an enterprise value of approximately $9 billion or 9x EBITDA.

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