Debevoise Advises CD&R in Connection with Its Investment in Columbus McKinnon to Fund Columbus McKinnon’s $2.7 Billion Acquisition of Kito Crosby

11 February 2025

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in connection with its investment in Columbus McKinnon to fund Columbus McKinnon’s $2.7 billion acquisition of Kito Crosby. For more information, please see the company’s press release.

Columbus McKinnon is a worldwide designer, manufacturer and marketer of intelligent motion solutions.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partners Uri Herzberg and Katherine Durnan Taylor and includes partner Kevin Schmidt and associates Erik Andrén, Alexander Bracco, Heidi Case, Robert Geren and Lina Hamidou, finance partner Brett Novick and associates Ilya Balabanovsky, Max Lovrin and Adam Silverwood, employee benefits and executive compensation counsel Sarah Burke and associate Ally Farley, capital markets partner Morgan Hayes and counsel Joshua Samit, tax partner Michael Bolotin and associate Shanna Adler, antitrust partners Tim Cornell and Timothy McIver and counsel Sergej BräuerKyra Bromley and Anne-Mette Heemsoth, and environmental counsel Stuart Hammer and associate Harry Zirlin.