Peter M. McCormack

Since joining Kirkland, Peter has been involved in the following matters:

• Nexstar Broadcasting Group in its $6.4 billion acquisition of Tribune Media Co., its related $1.3 billion sale of nineteen stations in fifteen markets to TEGNA and The E.W. Scripps Company, and various confidential matters
• Huntsman Corporation in various matters including its
  • pending $300 million acquisition of CVC Thermoset Specialties
  • $350 million acquisition of Icynene-Lapolla
  • $350 million acquisition of Demilec Inc.
  • merger with Clariant, with a combined enterprise value of approximately $20 billion
• Bain Capital Private Equity and its portfolio companies in various matters including
  
  • the combination of Superion, TriTech and Aptean's public sector and healthcare businesses, in partnership with Vista Private Equity
  • the acquisition of Big Tex Trailers, Inc. and subsequent merger with American Trailer Works, Inc., acquired from Southlake Equity Group
  • the acquisitions of PSA Healthcare and Epic Health Services to form Aveanna Healthcare and other matters involving Aveanna
  • the $2.7 billion acquisition of, and subsequent matters involving, Vertafore Inc., in partnership with Vista Private Equity
  • the sale of BMC Software to KKR
  • the $3.2 billion carve-out acquisition of Diversey Care from Sealed Air
  • the investment in Surgery Partners and Surgery Partners’ simultaneous $760 million acquisition of National Surgical Healthcare
• Boise Cascade Company in its acquisition of engineered lumber production facilities from Georgia Pacific LLC
• Confidential hedge fund client in connection with DOJ Antitrust Division investigation
• MDSL and Sumeru Equity Partners in the merger of MDSL with Calero Software
• Buildium and Sumeru Equity Partners in the acquisition of Buildium by Real Page, Inc.
• Thomas H. Lee Partners and Curo Health Services LLC in the $1.4 billion sale of Curo to Humana Inc., TPG Capital LP and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe LP
• Warburg Pincus in the $1.8 billion sale of Coyote Logistics to UPS, and other confidential matters
• Various private equity clients, including Arsenal Capital, Apax Partners, Golden Gate Capital, GTCR, Madison Dearborn Partners, Sentinel Capital Partners, Sun Capital, STARR Investment Holdings, and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, as well as their portfolio companies, in connection with confidential transactions and antitrust advisory matters

Prior to joining Kirkland, Peter was involved in the following representations:

• Advantest Corp. in its $1.1 billion merger with Verigy Ltd.

• Ainsworth Lumber Co. Inc. in its $667 million all-stock merger with Norbord, Inc. and in its terminated $864 million merger with Louisiana-Pacific Corp.

• AMR Corporation’s Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in connection with American Airlines’ $11 billion merger with US Airways Group, Inc. as part of AMR’s Chapter 11 reorganization

• Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Co. alleging breach of a commercialization agreement for the diabetes medication exenatide and related antitrust claims, and in its subsequent settlement with Eli Lilly terminating the agreement and transitioning full responsibility for developing and marketing exenatide to Amylin

• CF Industries Holdings, Inc. in the $1.4 billion sale of its phosphates business to The Mosaic Co. and its $910 million acquisition of Viterra, Inc.’s stake in Canadian Fertilizers Limited

• Compuware Corp. in its $2.5 billion acquisition by Thoma Bravo

• Express Scripts, Inc. in its $29.1 billion acquisition of Medco Health Solutions, including in connection with the private antitrust challenge to the transaction

• SanDisk Corporation in its successful trial defense against claims brought by Kingston Technologies relating to SanDisk’s licensing policies

• U.S. professional sports leagues in various confidential matters, including arbitration matters pursuant to the NHL and NBA collective bargaining agreements

• Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in connection with its $5.6 billion acquisition of Actavis Group

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, 2011–2015