Peter M. McCormack

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

• Apax Partners on the sale of its portfolio company Genex Services to Stone Point Capital
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its pending acquisition of the home healthcare division of Maxim Healthcare Services by portfolio company Aveanna Healthcare
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its combination of Superion, TriTech and Aptean's public sector and healthcare businesses, in partnership with Vista Private Equity
• Bain Capital Private Equity and Consolidated Container Co. in the $1.2 billion sale of Consolidated Container Co. to Loews Corp.
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its $3.2 billion carve-out acquisition of Diversey Care from Sealed Air
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisition of Big Tex Trailers, Inc. and subsequent merger with American Trailer Works, Inc., acquired from Southlake Equity Group
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisitions of PSA Healthcare and Epic Health Services to form Aveanna Healthcare
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its 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
• Centerbridge Partners L.P. in connection with the acquisition of Splenda by Heartland Food Products from McNeil Nutritionals, LLC
• Confidential hedge fund client in connection with DOJ Antitrust Division investigation
• Consolidated Aviation Services, a portfolio company of ICV Partners, in its sale to Worldwide Flight Services, a portfolio company of Platinum Equity
• Hamilton Insurance Group in its sale of Hamilton USA and expansion of its strategic partnership with AIG and Two Sigma Insurance Quantified
• Huntsman Corporation in its pending $350 million acquisition of Icynene-Lapolla
• Huntsman Corporation in its $350 million acquisition of Demilec Inc.
• Huntsman Corporation in its merger with Clariant, with a combined enterprise value of approximately $20 billion
• MDSL and Sumeru Equity Partners in the merger of MDSL with Calero Software 
• Nexstar Broadcasting Group in its $1.3 billion sale of nineteen stations in fifteen markets to TEGNA and The E.W. Scripps Company
• Nexstar Broadcasting Group in its $6.4 billion acquisition of Tribune Media Co.
• 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
• Various private equity clients, including Arsenal Capital, Apax Partners, Bain Capital Private Equity, Golden Gate Capital, GTCR, Madison Dearborn Partners, Sentinel Capital Partners, Sun Capital, STARR Investment Holdings, Thomas H. Lee Partners, and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, as well as many of their portfolio companies, in connection with confidential transactions
• Warburg Pincus in its $1.8 billion sale of Coyote Logistics to UPS

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 LLC

• EMCORE Corporation in the sale of its space photovoltaics business to Veritas Capital and the sale of its tunable laser and transreceiver product lines to NeoPhotonics Corporation

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

• Joh. A. Benckiser in its $9.8 billion acquisition of D.E. Master Blenders 1753

• Revlon in its $660 million acquisition of The Colomer Group from CVC Capital Partners and other private investors

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

• Solo Cup Company in its $1 billion acquisition by Dart Container Corporation

• Toray Industries, Inc. in its $584 million acquisition of Zoltek Companies Inc.

• 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