Kirkland Represents Golden Gate Capital in Agreement With GTCR to Recapitalize Cole-Parmer
Kirkland & Ellis represented Golden Gate Capital in its definitive agreement with GTCR to recapitalize Cole-Parmer Instrument Company alongside CEO Bernd Brust and the Cole-Parmer management team. As part of the transaction, GTCR will acquire a majority stake in Cole-Parmer, while Golden Gate Capital and management will retain a significant minority stake in the business. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Kirkland team included transactional partners Sanford E. Perl, Michael Weed, Jeremy Veit and Chris Thomas, and associates Lauren Yeager, Andrew Struckmeyer and Kristina Mooradian; tax partners David Kung and Devin Heckman; employee benefits partner Robert Zitko and associate Mark Lennon; employment & labor partner Matthew Keiser and associate Melissa Soares; technology & IP transactions partner John Lynn and associate Amaya Gaston; international trade & national security associates Luci Hague and William Phalen; environmental partner Paul Tanaka and associate Lindsay Dofelmier; real estate partner Roberto Miceli; executive compensation partner Matt Jones and associate Rebecca Liu; antitrust & competition partners Sarah Jordan and Michael Thorpe, and associates Matthew Sinclair-Thomson and James Parkinson; and debt finance partner Jocelyn Hirsch and associate Carolyn Aiken.
