Benjamin M. Schreiner

While at Kirkland, Ben's representative transactions have included:

• GlaxoSmithKline in its proposed $12.7 billion joint venture with Pfizer to combine their consumer health businesses;
• Ingersoll Rand in its pending 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 Energize;
• Sentinel Capital Partners in connection with a number of portfolio company acquisitions and dispositions;
• 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. Avaya is a leading multinational technology company that specializes in telephony, wireless data communications, customer relationship management software, and networking. Avaya and its debtor-affiliates had more than $6 billion in funded debt obligations as of the commencement of their Chapter 11 cases, with annual revenues in excess of $3 billion;
• Tronox Limited in its pending $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.;
• Alerian in its sale to ZZ Capital International;
• Pamplona Capital Management in its $5 billion acquisition of PAREXEL International;
• Celanese Corporation in its joint venture with Blackstone to create a global acetate tow supplier;
• SoftBank in its $3 billion acquisition of Fortress Investment Group;
• 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 and its acquisition of a majority interest in Navistar Defense;
• KKR in its its acquisitions of Cardenas Markets and the subsequent acquisition by Cardenas Markets of Mi Pueblo, C.H.I. Overhead Doors and Optiv Security and its strategic investment in UFC;
• Butterfly Enterprises in connection with its investments in Lemonade Restaurant Group and Modern Market Eatery, its pending merger of Lemonade Restaurant Group and Modern Market Eatery to form Modern Restaurant Concepts and its pending $510 million acquisition of Bolthouse Farms from Campbell Soup Company;
• 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; and
• Silver Lake in its acquisition of Cast & Crew Entertainment Services and the subsequent acquisitions by Cast & Crew of CAPS Payroll, Final Draft and Checks & Balances.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Ben’s representative transactions included:

• Windstream Holdings Inc. in the tax-free spinoff of select telecommunications network assets into Uniti Group, Inc., an independent publicly traded real estate investment trust;
• Permira Funds in the $3.5 billion sale Arysta LifeScience Limited to Platform Specialty Products Corporation;
• iPayment in its out-of-court restructuring and exchange offers;
• Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH, as the lead investor in its $9.8 billion acquisition of D.E. Master Blenders 1753 N.V. (the Netherlands), a coffee and tea producer;
• Norwest Equity Partners in the $1 billion sale of Becker Underwood, Inc. to BASF and the sale of PeopleNet Communications to Trimble Navigation;
• Apax Partners in the sale of a majority stake in Advantage Sales & Marketing to affiliates of private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners and funds advised by CVC Capital Partners Ltd.;
• Apax Partners in the formation of Advantage-Waypoint, a consortium of food service brokers;
• Summit Entertainment, in its $413 million acquisition by Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation;
• Medtronic in the $487 million sale of its Physio-Control division to affiliates of Bain Capital; and
• CIT Group Inc. in connection with its prepackaged plan of bankruptcy.