Katherine Durnan Taylor is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Public Company Advisory Groups. Her practice focuses on advising ...
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Experience
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- Verizon in its $1 billion cash acquisition of wireless spectrum licenses in the cellular band, as well as select licenses for spectrum in the AWS and PCS bands, from United States Cellular Corporation and certain of USCC’s subsidiaries.
- Verizon in its $20 billion acquisition of Frontier, the largest pure-play fiber internet provider in the U.S.
- Stuffed Puffs, LLC, a portfolio company of Factory LLC, in the sale of its assets to Mount Franklins Foods.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition, together with TowerBrook, of R1 RCM, a provider of technology-driven solutions that impact the patient experience and financial performance of healthcare providers, at an enterprise value of $8.9 billion.
- Electrical Components International, a Cerberus Capital Management portfolio company, in its acquisition of Flex-Tec, a supplier of electrical harness systems, assemblies, and other critical engineered components for LED Commercial Lighting, Connected Lighting, and IoT markets.
- Cerberus Capital Management in its $640 million sale of Cyanco to Orica.
- Ariel Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor, in Endeavor’s $13 billion take-private sale to Silver Lake.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of Presidio, a leading technology services and solutions provider, from BC Partners.
- The Special Committee of SiriusXM in its agreement to combine SiriusXM with Liberty Media’s Liberty SiriusXM tracking stock group to create New SiriusXM, a new public company.
- Discovery, Inc. in the acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that values the combined entity at approximately $130 billion.
- Bregal Sagemount in its strategic growth investment in Neptune Flood Incorporated, a leading digital insurtech platform and private flood insurance provider.
- Spirit Airlines in its merger, later terminated, with Frontier Group Holdings, parent company of Frontier Airlines, in a transaction valued at $6.6 billion.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of PwC’s Global Mobility Tax and Immigration Services practice, the global leader in employee tax, immigration, business travel, cross-border managed services, and payroll solutions to multinational organizations and their employees.
- A major investor in Envigo, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology research provider, in the sale of Envigo to Inotiv, a drug discovery and development contract research organization, for a total transaction value of approximately $545 million.
- Electrical Components International, a Cerberus Capital Management portfolio company and leading wire harness, electrical components, and sub-assembly supplier for the diversified industrial markets, in its acquisition of Omni Connection International.
- Domtar in its $3 billion sale to Paper Excellence.
- Domtar in the $920 million sale of its personal care business to American Industrial Partners.
- Kelso & Company and US LBM in Bain Capital Private Equity’s acquisition of a majority interest in US LBM.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $4.7 billion acquisition of Epicor Software, a global provider of cloud-based, industry-specific Enterprise Resource Planning software to industrial-focused sectors.
- Prudential plc and Jackson National in the reinsurance to Athene of $27.6 billion of Jackson’s in-force fixed and fixed index annuities and a $500 million equity investment in Jackson’s holding company.
- Kelso & Company in its acquisition of Ferraro Foods, a specialty foodservice distributor.
- Amazon as strategic partner to Yankee Global Enterprises in the acquisition of the YES Network from The Walt Disney Company at a total enterprise value of $3.47 billion.
- OEConnection (OEC) and Providence Equity in the sale of a majority stake in OEC to Genstar Capital.
- Morgan Stanley Private Equity in its sale of CoAdvantage to Aquiline Capital.
- Kelso & Company in its acquisition of J.S. Held, a global consulting firm focused on high value insurance claims and construction-related matters.
- Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunities Group in its strategic minority investment in Annexus, a leading designer of annuities and insurance-based retirement products.
- Quarton International, an independent U.S. and European M&A advisory firm, in its sale to Cowen.
- AXA and AXA Equitable Holdings on the initial public offering of AXA Equitable Holdings on the New York Stock Exchange for approximately $4 billion, and AXA Equitable Holdings in its offering and sale of $3.8 billion of senior notes.
- Cerberus Capital Management in its acquisition of Electrical Components International, the world’s leading manufacturer of wire harnesses, control boxes and value-added assembly services, from KPS Capital Partners.
- Cerberus Capital Management in its acquisition of Cyanco International, the largest global producer of sodium cyanide.
- Time Inc. in its $2.8 billion sale to Meredith.
- International Paper in the $1.8 billion combination of its North America Consumer Packaging business with Graphic Packaging.
- The ServiceMaster Company in its $750 million offering of 5.125% senior notes due 2024.
- Warner Music Group in a two–part refinancing transaction, including its offer and sale of $250 million 4.875% dollar-denominated senior secured notes due 2024 and an offering of €345 million 4.125% euro-denominated senior secured notes due 2024 and the retirement of $450 million of outstanding dollar-denominated senior notes and €157 million of euro-denominated senior notes.
- Guardian in its sale of RS Investments to Victory Capital.
- Alliance Laundry Systems, an Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan portfolio company, in the sale of majority interest to BDT Capital Partners.
Education
- Columbia Law School, 2014, J.D.
- Columbia University, 2011, B.A.