Jeffrey P. Swatzell, P.C.
Overview
Jeffrey Swatzell is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice primarily involves counseling leveraged buyout and private equity funds and their portfolio companies on structuring and negotiating complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of public and private companies, corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, and debt and equity financings. He also counsels clients on a range of general corporate matters, including corporate governance.
Jeffrey has worked on transactions in a variety of sectors, including aerospace, manufacturing, specialty chemicals and materials, professional services, technology, healthcare, and asset management. He has handled matters on behalf of, among others, AE Industrial Partners, Blue Sea Capital, One Equity Partners, ParkerGale Capital, Soundcore Capital Partners, and Sun Capital Partners, as well as many of their portfolio companies.
Experience
Representative Matters
AE Industrial Partners in its:
- acquisition of AIM MRO
- acquisition and subsequent $700 million sale of American Pacific Corporation
- acquisition of Altus Fire & Life Safety
- business combination of BigBear.ai with GigCapital4, Inc. a Private-to-Public Equity entity also known as special purpose acquisition company
- acquisition of Calca Solutions
- $925 million sale of Edge Autonomy to Redwire Corporation
- acquisition of FMI, Inc.
- acquisition of HealthWay
- portfolio company RED Lattice in its acquisition of Paragon
- acquisition and subsequent $440 million sale of Resolute Industrial Holdings, LLC
- portfolio company Firefly Aerospace in its acquisition of Spaceflight
- acquisition of Triman Industries, Inc. and Triman’s subsequent acquisitions of Brighton Cromwell and Crestwood Technology Group
- acquisition of Edge Autonomy
- acquisition of United Building Solutions, and United Building Solutions’ add-on acquisition of Total Comfort Solutions
Applied Composites in its:
- acquisition of Alliance Spacesytems
- acquisition of San Diego Composites
- acquisition of The Companies of North Coast
BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) in its $16.1 million acquisition of ProModel Corporation
Brightstar Capital Partners-backed Likewize in its investment from Genstar Capital
Cotton Holdings, Inc. in its:
- acquisition of ACT
- acquisition of Full Circle Restoration and Construction Services
- acquisition of Stellar Restoration Services
- acquisition of Target Solutions
Coveris Holdings in its:
- $1.32 billion sale of its Americas packaging business, Coveris Americas, to Transcontinental
- acquisition of McNeel International Corp.
- acquisition of Suraplast S.A.
Incline Equity Partners in the extension of its investment in Accredited Labs
National Care Systems in its investment from Sheridan Capital Partners
Obie Insurance in its sale to The Baldwin Group
One Equity Partners in its:
- acquisition of American Medical Technologies
- acquisition of CraftMark Bakery
- sale of InfuCare RX
- acquisition of Montgomery Transport
- acquisition of Fortis Healthcare
- sale of PS Logistics
- sale of Simplura Health Group.
ParkerGale in its:
- acquisition of Lightyear Dealer Technologies, LLC
- acquisition of Aircraft Technical Publishers
- acquisition of Profisee Group, Inc.
- acquisition of Rippe & Kingston Systems, Inc.
Resolute Industrial Holdings, LLC in its acquisition of American Equipment Group
Robertshaw Controls Company in its:
- $900 million sale to One Rock Capital Partners
- acquisition of Burner Systems International
Sensata Technologies Holding N.V. in its $1.0 billion international carve-out acquisition of various business divisions operating under Custom Sensors & Technologies, including the Kavlico, BEI, Crydom and Newall product lines and brands and related assets
Shiseido Americas Corporation in its acquisition of MATCHCo.
Sun Capital Partners in its:
- acquisition and subsequent sale of Arrow Tru-Line
- sale of Cotton Holdings, Inc.
- sale of Calcium Products
- acquisition and subsequent sale of Cotton Holdings, Inc.
- acquisition of Fresh Origins
- acquisition of Koch Separation Solutions
- portfolio company Platinum Dermatology Partners in its acquisition of Skin & Cancer Associates
- sale of Point Blank Enterprises
- sale of Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill
- acquisition and subsequent sale of StonePoint (f/k/a VantaCore Partners LLC)
- acquisition of West Dermatology and subsequent merger with Sterling Partners-backed Platinum Dermatology Partners
Transom Capital-backed Artivo Surfaces in its acquisition of the Walker Zanger and Anthology brands from Mosaic Companies
Edge Autonomy in its acquisition of Jennings Aeronautics
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial ExternHonorable Joan B. GottschallUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois2006
Prior Experience
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2007Illinois
- 2023Florida
Education
- Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of TechnologyJ.D.with Honors2007
Moot Court Honor Society
Seventh Circuit Review
- Miami UniversityB.S., Business (Economics); Business Legal Studies Minor2003