Neal J. Reenan, P.C.
Overview
Neal J. Reenan is a corporate partner in Kirkland's Boston and Chicago offices and is a founding partner of the Firm’s Boston office. Neal focuses on structuring, negotiating and executing complex domestic and cross-border transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, take-privates, joint ventures, recapitalizations and restructuring transactions. He also advises on related corporate governance, financing, executive compensation, and general corporate matters.
Neal has represented a variety of financial sponsors, including Bain Capital Private Equity, Centerbridge Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, Thomas H. Lee Partners, H.I.G. Capital, Hellman & Friedman, Apax Funds, CHS Capital, Lee Equity Partners, Thoma Bravo, Ridgemont Equity Partners, and GTCR, as well as many of their respective portfolio companies. In addition, Neal has handled transactions for corporate clients such as Diversey, Inc., The Amynta Group, Ankura Consulting Group, LLC, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, CME Group, Konica Minolta Holdings, EVO Payments International, Aquilex Holdings, the SourceInterlink Companies, AMF Bowling Worldwide, Cinemark Holdings, and Advisory Research, Inc.
Neal's experience spans industries including financial services, manufacturing, health care, distribution, business to business services, consumer products and services, entertainment and technology.
Experience
Representative Matters
The following are selected examples of Neal's representations:
- Amynta Group in its pending acquisition of American Auto Guardian, Inc.
- Apollo Global Management, alongside Athene Holding, in its pending acquisition of PK AirFinance from GE Capital’s Aviation Services unit.
- Paragon Bioservices, Inc. in its $1.2 billion sale to Catalent, Inc.
- Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisition of a majority stake in Imperial Dade.
- H.I.G. Capital in the acquisition of the U.S. based human resource consulting and actuarial business (formerly known as Buck Consultants) of Conduent, Inc.
- Ankura Consulting Group, LLC (a Madison Dearborn Partners portfolio company) in its acquisition of the Disputes, Forensics and Legal Technology (DFLT) segment and Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) practice of Navigant Consulting, Inc.
- Apax Funds in the sale of GlobalLogic, Inc.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in its investment in the acquiring consortium led by the Karfunkel Family and Stone Point Partners in the take private of AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of Navacord, Inc.
- Centerbridge Partners and Industrial Container Services, Inc. in the sale of ICS to Stone Canyon-backed BWAY Holding Company, Inc.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in its agreement with AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. to acquire 51% of certain of AmTrust's U.S.-based fee businesses valued at $1.15 billion.
- Apax Funds in their agreement to acquire ThoughtWorks, Inc.
- Aquilex Holdings LLC, a portfolio company of Centerbridge Partners, in the sale of its HydroChem industrial cleaning business to PSC Industrial, a portfolio company of Littlejohn & Co.
- GCA Services Group in its $1.25 billion sale from Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. and Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division to ABM.
- Bain Capital Private Equity in agreements to acquire common stock of Surgery Partners, Inc. from HIG Capital and convertible preferred stock issued by Surgery Partners in connection with the latter's acquisition of National Surgical Healthcare, Inc. from Irving Place Capital.
- Centerbridge Partners in connection with its acquisition of Industrial Container Services, Inc. from Aurora Private Equity.
- Bain Capital Private Equity and Consolidated Container Company in the $1.2 billion sale of CCC to Loews Corporation.
- Bain Capital Private Equity in its $3.2 billion carve-out acquisition of the Diversey Care business from Sealed Air Corporation.
- Ridgemont Equity Partners in its acquisition of Worldwide Express and the combination of Worldwide Express with Unishippers.
- Bain Capital Europe in its acquisition of MSX International.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in connection with its investment in Towergate Insurance.
- Thomas H. Lee Partners and Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division in their acquisition of GCA Services, Inc. from Blackstone.
- Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company in its acquisition of LearnVest.
- Centerbridge Partners in its investment in Heartland Food Products and the acquisition by Heartland of the Splenda brand and related assets from McNeil Nutritionals, LLC.
- Bain Capital Credit (formerly Sankaty) in connection with its acquisition of JP Morgan's Special Opportunities Group.
- Centerbridge Partners in connection with its investment in Boart Longyear Limited.
- Bain Capital Private Equity and Unisource Worldwide Inc. in connection with the merger of Unisource with xpedx following xpdex's spin-off from International Paper in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction.
- Bain Capital Private Equity and Air Medical Group Holdings, Inc. in the $2.1 billion sale of AMGH to KKR.
- Madison Deaborn Partners and Nuveen Investments, Inc. in the $6.25 billion sale of Nuveen to TIAA-CREF.
- Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisition of Bob's Furniture Stores from KarpReilly LLC.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in the sale of its interest in UPC Wind Management LLC to SunEdison.
- Bain Capital Private Equity in its $1.6 billion acquisition of Apex Tool Group, LLC from Danaher Corp. and Cooper Industries.
- Centerbridge Partners in its acquisition through a negotiated pre-packaged bankruptcy restructuring of Reddy Ice.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in connection with its investment in EVO Payments International.
- Bain Capital Private Equity in its $6.9 billion take-private acquisition of BMC Software.
- Centerbridge Partners and HydroChem LLC in the $250 million sale of HydroChem's SRO Business to AZZ Incorporated.
- Centerbridge Partners and Aquilex Holdings Inc. in the acquisition by Aquilex of Inland Industrial Services.
- Centerbridge Partners in its acquisition, through a debt-for-equity exchange offer, of Aquilex Holdings Inc.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in connection with its investment in USPG.
- Bain Capital Private Equity in connection with the restructuring of Contec Holdings Ltd.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in connection with its investment in LA Fitness.
- Bain Capital Private Equity and Air Medical Group Holdings, Inc. in the acquisition by AMGH of Reach Air Medical Services from New Heritage Capital.
- Bain Capital Private Equity in its $965 million acquisition of Air Medical Group Holdings.
- Lee Equity Partners in its acquisition of Eating Recovery Center.
- Bain Capital Private Equity in connection with the restructuring of MC Communications.
- Thomas H. Lee Partners in its investment in Prime Risk Brokers.
- CHS Capital and SunSource Holdings, Inc. in the sale of SunSource to Littlejohn & Co. LLC.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in its $7.3 billion going-private acquisition of technology products and services provider CDW.
- CME Group in its $1.3 billion joint venture with Dow Jones & Company creating the leading market data and benchmark index services platform (including the Dow Jones Industrial Average).
- CHS Capital in connection with its ownership of AMF Bowling Worldwide, Inc. in various matters, including executive compensation, a leveraged dividend, M&A transactions and an international strategic joint venture.
- Advisory Research Inc. in its sale to Piper Jaffray Companies.
- GTCR in the restructuring of Wilton Brands, Inc.
- CHS Capital and SunSourceHoldings, Inc. in the acquisition by SunSource of Warden Fluid Dynamics Inc.
- CHS Capital in connection with its investment in Gundle Environmental/SLT
- Madison Dearborn Partners and Cinemark Holdings Inc. in the acquisition of Century Theatres, Inc.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in its $1.2 billion acquisition of leading national movie theater chain Cinemark USA, Inc.
- Thoma Bravo in its acquisition of Datatel Inc.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of Pierre Foods.
- CHS Capital in the acquisition of STS Operating, Inc.
- Madison Dearborn Partners in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Bolthouse Foods, Inc.
- A significant minority investor in connection with its investment in in-flight communication provider Gogo Inc.
- The Source Interlink Companies in divesting non-core assets to a private equity consortium.
- Konica Minolta, Inc. in the divestiture of certain U.S. assets.
- Goense Bounds and Partners in its acquisition of Emess Design Group and Stein World.
- Great Hill Partners in its acquisition of several legal process outsourcing businesses.
Prior Experience
Thomson-Shore, Inc., 1999–2000 (Director of Strategy & Customer Relations)
Plante Moran, PLLC, 1997–1999 (Strategy and Business Improvement Consultant)
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, 1994–1997 (Senior Auditor)
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Thought Leadership
Seminars
Panelist, “The Nuts and Bolts of Private Equity M&A: What Makes PE Deals Different,” ABA Business Law Section Meeting, New Orleans, April 8, 2017
Memberships & Affiliations
American Bar Association — Business Law Section
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Mergers & Acquisitions Committee Member
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Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee Member
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Carve-out Transactions Deal Points Study Task Force Member
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Model Private Merger Agreement Working Group Member
Northeastern University Law School Global LLM Advisory Board Member
Licensed CPA in Michigan (inactive)
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants
University of Michigan Law School Class Agent — Class of 2003
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2017Massachusetts
- 2003Illinois
Education
- University of Michigan Law SchoolJ.D.magna cum laude2003Order of the Coif
- Northeastern UniversityM.B.A.; M.S., Accounting1994
- Harvard UniversityA.B., Governmentcum laude1993