Kirkland Represents Oaktree Capital Management in Acquisition of Rail Infrastructure Assets from Dow

Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as lead transaction counsel in the acquisition of Dow Inc.’s (NYSE: DOW) rail infrastructure assets and related equipment at six major North American sites by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, in partnership with Watco Companies, LLC, a transportation service company. As part of the transaction, Watco will enter into a long-term service agreement to provide rail services at Dow’s flagship locations in Freeport and Seadrift, Texas; St. Charles and Plaquemine, Louisiana; and Fort Saskatchewan and Prentiss in Alberta, Canada. Oaktree has been an investor in Watco since December 2018. 

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The Kirkland team was led by transactional partners Michael Brueck and Patrick Jacobs, real estate partner Roberto Miceli and debt finance partners Roald Nashi and Rustin Brown and transactional associates Adarsh Varghese and Marc Holloway, and included transactional partner Hamed Meshki and transactional associate Sara Campbell, tax partners Mike Beinus and Meredith Levy, investment funds partners Erica Berthou and Carrie VanFleet, technology & IP transactions partners Matthew Lovell and Daisy Darvall and environmental partner Sara Michaelchuck Webber.