Kirkland Counsels Authentic Restaurant Brands on Addition of Tavern in the Square

Kirkland & Ellis advised Authentic Restaurant Brands (ARB), a platform of leading regional restaurant brands and a portfolio company of New York-based principal investment firm Garnett Station Partners, on a transaction whereby Tavern in the Square, the iconic New England polished-casual dining brand, will join ARB through the recapitalization of its parent company, Broadway Hospitality Group. The transaction, ARB’s fifth in five years, grows the ARB platform to approximately $1 billion in annual revenue and over $150 million in EBITDA. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Will Boothby, Jeremy Mandell, Zackary Theo and Griffin Clark; and tax lawyers Rachel Cantor, Meg Dewar and Natalie Kannan.