Ben Richards

Since joining Kirkland, Ben has been involved in the following transactions:

IPOs, Follow-on Offerings and De-SPACs

• $24.25 billion equity offering of The Boeing Company
• $90 million IPO of Palmer Square Capital BDC Inc.
• De-SPAC transaction of Nogin, Inc.
• $163 million secondary offering of JAMF Holding Corp.
• $180 million secondary offering of Oak Street Health, Inc. common stock
• $300 million secondary offering of R1 RCM, Inc. common stock

M&A and Strategic Transactions

• R1 RCM, Inc. in its take-private transaction with affiliates of TowerBrook Capital Partners and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
• Diversey, Inc. in its take-private transaction with Solenis, Inc.
• R1 RCM, Inc. in its acquisition of Cloudmed, Inc.
• Recapitalization transactions for Brand Industrial Services, Inc., including issuance of $1.3 billion of senior secured notes, issuance of $1.1 billion in equity and entry into new credit agreements

Debt Offerings

• $10 billion debt issuance for The Boeing Company
• Multiple debt issuances for Deere & Co. for a total of over $15 billion, including Deere’s first sustainability-linked bond
• Multiple debt issuances for Whirlpool Corporation
• $500 million debt issuance for Zebra Technologies Corporation
• $400 million debt issuance for Allegion plc

Prior to joining Kirkland, Ben was involved in the following transactions:

IPOs, Follow-on Offerings and De-SPACs

• Acutus Medical, Inc., Alkami Technology, Inc., Atreca, Inc., Coherent Corp., Elastic N.V., GoDaddy Inc., Grocery Outlet Holding Corp., Personalis, Inc., Playstudios, Inc., SMART Global Holdings Inc. and Xometry, Inc. in multiple equity transactions

M&A and Strategic Transactions

• SMART Global Holdings Inc. in its acquisition of Penguin Computing, Ltd.

Debt Offerings

• Comcast Corporation, Equinix, Inc., Intuit, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Salesforce, Inc., Texas Instruments, Inc., Twitter, Inc., Uber Inc., Zynga, Inc. for a total of over $50 billion