Benjamin M. Schreiner, P.C.
Partner
Tax
Overview
Benjamin Schreiner is a partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He represents clients on a broad range of federal income tax matters, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, spin-offs, debt and equity offerings and restructurings, as well as advises clients on the tax aspects of financial instruments and other derivatives.
Experience
Representative Matters
While at Kirkland, Ben's representative transactions have included:
- Celanese Corporation in its $1.15 billion acquisition of Exxon's elastic polymers business
- Celanese Corporation in its pending $11 billion acquisition of DuPont’s Mobility & Materials business
- E2open on the $1.7 billion acquisition of BluJay Solutions, a leading international cloud-based, logistics execution platform
- CC Neuberger Principal Holdings I in its business combination with E2 open
- CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II in its $4.8 billion combination with Getty Images
- Envista Holdings Corporation in its $600 million acquisition of Carestream Dental’s intraoral scanners business
- Ahold Delhaize in its acquisition of FreshDirect
- CC Capital and Motive Partners in the acquisition of Wilshire Associates
- SK Capital Partners in connection with numerous portfolio company acquisitions and dispositions, including its acquisition of Techmer PM and its pending sale of Perimeter Solutions to EvarArc Holdings Ltd
- Sentinel Capital Partners in connection with a number of portfolio company acquisitions and dispositions;
- Butterfly Equity in connection with its acquisition of Orgain, Inc. and subsequent sale of a majority stake to Nestle Health Science, its acquisition of Pete and Gerry’s, its investment in MaryRuth Organics, its investments in Lemonade Restaurant Group and Modern Market Eatery and subsequent combination thereof, its $510 million acquisition of Bolthouse Farms from Campbell Soup Company
- Cerberus Capital Management in its carveout of Avon's North American business and strategic investment in Avon’s international business, its acquisition of Staples’ European business, its acquisition of a majority interest in Navistar Defense, its acquisition of the performance chemicals business from PQ Group and its acquisition of Source Code Holdings
- Further Global in its investment in E78 Partners, its investment alongside Towerbrook Capital Partners in the acquisition of ProSightGlobal, its acquisition of LegalShield and its acquisition of Celink
- KPS Capital Partners, LP in its $550 million acquisition of Briggs & Stratton Corporation and its acquisition of AM General
- Norwegian Cruise Lines in its $2.4 billion transaction involving four different capital markets products, the first-ever four-tranched marketed financing
- Tripadvisor in its $500 million high yield notes offering and $300 million convertible notes offering
- Covetrus in its $250 million convertible preferred equity investment from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
- Special Committee of Board of Directors of FGL Holdings in its $2.7 billion acquisition by Fidelity National Financial
- BC Partners in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Presidio and its acquisition of Women’s Care Enterprises
- GlaxoSmithKline in its $12.7 billion joint venture with Pfizer to combine their consumer health businesses
- Ingersoll Rand in its acquisition of Precision Flow Systems for $1.45 billion
- A consortium led by CC Capital in its $6.9 billion acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet
- Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Spectrum Brands in connection with the $10 billion merger of Spectrum Brands and HRG Group
- Spectrum Brands in its $2 billion carve-out sale of its global consumer battery business to Energizer
- Lakeland Tours, LLP d/b/a WorldStrides and certain of its affiliates, a provider of educational travel experiences, in their prepackaged Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
- Avaya Inc. and certain of its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
- Tronox Limited in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Cristal’s TiO(2) business and its $1.325 billion sale of its Alkali Chemicals business to Genesis Energy, L.P.
- Pamplona Capital Management in its $5 billion acquisition of PAREXEL International and in its $8.5 billion sale of PAREXEL to EQT and Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- KKR in its acquisitions of Cardenas Markets and the subsequent combination of Cardenas Markets with Mi Pueblo, C.H.I. Overhead Doors and Optiv Security and its strategic investment in UFC and subsequent sale of UFC to Endeavor in connection with its IPO
- Talen Energy Corporation in its $5.2 billion sale to Riverstone Holdings LLC
- Baxalta Incorporated in its $32 billion merger with Shire plc
- Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisitions of Big Tex Trailers and American Trailer Works and its subsequent combination of Big Tex Trailers and American Trailer Works
- Molson Coors Brewing Co. in its $12 billion acquisition of SABMiller plc’s interest in MillerCoors joint venture
Prior Experience
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Associate, 2008–2015
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Education
- New York University School of LawLL.M., Taxation2012
- Fordham University School of LawJ.D.magna cum laude2008
- Colby CollegeB.A., Economicscum laude2001
News &
Insights
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