Experience

• • Elliott in the sale of its majority-owned interest in Roadrunner Transportation to Prospero Staff Capital.
  • Presidio, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its acquisition of a majority stake in Contender Solutions, an Elite ServiceNow partner.
  • Safe-Guard Products International, a Stone Point Capital portfolio company, in Hellman & Friedman’s majority investment.
  • Five Arrows, the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co, and n2y in the merger of Texthelp with n2y.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition, together with Stone Point Capital, of Truist Insurance Holdings, a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corporation, at an enterprise value of $15.5 billion.
  • Prosperity Life Group, an innovative insurance, reinsurance, and asset management company, in its acquisition of National Western in a transaction valued at approximately $1.9 billion.
  • Schneider Electric, a global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, in its acquisitions of EV Connect, an electric vehicle charging solutions provider, and EnergySage, an online marketplace for solar energy products and services.
  • Carlyle, as majority owner of Syniverse, in Twilio’s $750 million investment in Syniverse.
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in its acquisition of Fairway Lawns, a residential lawncare services provider.
  • Total Financial Solutions (d/b/a Total Bank Solutions) in its merger with Reich & Tang Deposit Networks.
  • Consilio, a Stone Point Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of Legility, a global legal services provider.
  • HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services, in its agreement to acquire the operations of five hospitals of Steward Health Care, the largest physician-led healthcare network.
  • Consilio in its acquisition of the Adecco Group’s legal consulting and eDiscovery Business Units.
  • Lone Wolf, a Stone Point Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of Propertybase, a leading global real estate and mortgage software company.
  • Carlyle, as majority owner of Syniverse, in Syniverse’s $2.85 billion merger, later terminated, with special purpose acquisition company M3-Brigade Acquisition II Corp. resulting in Syniverse becoming a publicly traded company.
  • HealthEdge and its controlling shareholder, Blackstone, in the acquisition of Altruista, a care management software company that delivers care management and population health management solutions that support value-based and person-centered care models.
  • Stone Point Capital in its investment in Lone Wolf Technologies, the North American leader in residential real estate software.
  • Blackstone in its investment in Bright Health as part of a $500 million Series E financing round.
  • TPG in the sale of Adare Pharmaceuticals, a leading specialty contract development and manufacturing organization, to Thomas H. Lee Partners and Frazier Healthcare Partners and the related separation of Adare’s Eosinophilic Esophagitis product into a TPG-backed entity.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of Radio Systems Corporation, a market-leading provider of innovative pet product solutions.
  • Blackstone in its acquisition of HealthEdge, a leading technology business that delivers next generation Core Administrative Processing Systems (CAPS) solutions to healthcare businesses.
  • Emergent Cold Storage, an Elliott portfolio company, in its sale to Lineage Logistics, the world’s largest refrigerated-storage company by space.
  • Roadrunner Transportation in the sale of its Prime Distribution Services business to C.H. Robinson.
  • Allergan in its sale of Brazikumab to AstraZeneca and Zenpep to Nestle.
  • Reynolds Group and Closure Systems International (CSI) in their sale of CSI businesses and facilities to Cerberus Capital Management.
  • Pacific Life in its sale of Aviation Capital Group to Tokyo Century Corporation.
  • Morgan Stanley Private Equity in its acquisition of Impact Fitness, a franchisee of Planet Fitness and formerly a Bain Capital portfolio company.
  • 4Refuel and its equityholders, including Kelso & Company and Penske Truck Leasing, in the sale of 4Refuel, the leading mobile on-site refueling company in Canada, to Finning International.
  • Tribune Media Company in its $7.2 billion sale to Nexstar Media.
  • Nexstar in its acquisition of the television broadcast station KGBT, Harlingen, Texas.
  • Carlyle in its strategic partnership with AIG to position DSA Re as a platform to provide solutions for insurance liabilities globally.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of a majority interest in American Greetings.
  • CHC Group, one of the largest global commercial helicopter service companies in the world, as aircraft counsel in its Chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, in which CHC successfully restructured more than $2 billion in indebtedness. Debevoise was named joint winner of “Restructuring Deal of the Year (Over $1B to $5B)” at the 12th Annual M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards for this representation.
  • OppenheimerFunds in a joint venture with Carlyle, which will provide global private credit opportunities for the wealth market.
  • Pacific Life and Aviation Capital Group in the minority investment by Tokyo Century in Aviation Capital Group, a transaction which won the Airline Economics Aviation 100 “2017 Overall Equity Deal of the Year” award.
  • Dover Corporation in its €35 million acquisition of Caldera, a wide-format imaging software company headquartered in France.
  • Two investors in their joint acquisition of Chesapeake Asset Management, a New York-based investment advisor.
  • RWL Water in the merger by acquisition of Emefcy Group and RWL Water.
  • A secondaries investor as the lead investor in the recapitalization of two “end-of-life” funds, sponsored by the same manager, in a merger transaction designed to offer liquidity to existing investors.
  • Dover Corporation in its acquisition of Fairbanks.
  • Dover Corporation in its acquisition of ProGauge.
  • Augment Investments Limited in a tender offer to acquire global depositary receipts representing ordinary shares of OJSC Pharmstandard for the total purchase price of $200 million.
  • Eutelsat in a joint venture with ViaSat to provide wholesale and retail broadband services in Europe.
  • Dover Corporation in its €425 million acquisition of Tokheim Group’s dispensers and systems businesses.
  • Uralkali in a buyback programme of its common shares and GDRs with a total purchase amount of $1.32 billion.
  • Uralkali in a buyback programme of its common shares and GDRs with a total purchase amount of up to $1.5 billion.
  • Otkritie Financial Corporation in the purchase by its subsidiary of 5,593,041 Class B shares in QIWI, a Nasdaq-listed company.
  • CHC Group in its $145 million asset-based loan financing.
  • Hanwha SolarOne in its $2 billion acquisition of Hanwha Q CELLS.
  • Helios Investment Partners in its minority investment in Wananchi Group as part of a $130 million investment from Helios and existing shareholders.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of up to a 49% stake in NYSE-listed CHC Group, the world's largest commercial helicopter operator with an enterprise value of $1.9 billion.
  • GreyCastle in its $570 million acquisition, backed by a consortium of investors, of the run-off Life Reinsurance operations of XL Group.
  • AIA Group in its $1 billion Rule 144A placement in the United States.
  • American Airlines in leases of 20 new E175 aircraft to Compass Airlines and related arrangements with the manufacturers in connection with regional aircraft flight services pursuant to a capacity purchase agreement.