Kirkland Advises Centerbridge on Acquisition of Industrial Container Services

Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented Centerbridge Partners L.P. in the acquisition announced today of ICSH Parent, Inc., the parent company of Industrial Container Services LLC and the largest provider of reconditioned container services in North America. ICS collects, reconditions and distributes over 10 million steel, poly and intermediate bulk containers annually. Prior to this transaction, ICS was owned by affiliates of Aurora Capital Group. More information on the transaction is available here.

The Kirkland team included corporate partners Justin Petzold and Neal Reenan, and associates Emma Lange-Novak and Andrew Struckmeyer, debt finance partner Judson Oswald and associates Ashley Rose, Jennifer Basch and Samantha McManus, environmental transactions partner Christian Semonsen and associate Aaron Newell, tax partners Thad Davis and Polina Liberman, executive compensation partner Michael Krasnovsky and associate Kate Coverdale, and employee benefits partner Robert Zitko and associate Scott Metzger.