Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services, a premier global provider of specialized services, and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on the combination of industrial services businesses, Brand Energy and Safway Group. Debevoise is also advising on the financing aspects of the transaction.

Brand Energy is a portfolio company of CD&R and Safway is owned by Odyssey Investment Partners. At closing, which is expected to occur in the third quarter of 2017, Odyssey will exit its investment in Safway and CD&R will be the controlling shareholder of the combined company. The combined business will have annual sales of approximately $5 billion and will be the leading firm in industrial services.

The Debevoise team is led by partners Kevin A. Rinker and Uri Herzberg and includes partners Daniel M. Abuhoff, Jeffrey P. Cunard, Gary M. Friedman, Meir D. Katz, Jonathan F. Lewis, Scott B. Selinger and Paul M. Rodel, counsel Michael D. Devins and associates Giselle Alvarado, Katherine M. Arango, Erin Cleary, Simone S. Hicks, Emily F. Huang, Ross Liemer, Lunar Mai, Maria B. Navarro, Brett M. Novick, Andrea Pomana, Lena E. Smith and Erica S. Weisgerber.

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