Representative Experience
- Advised Mr. R. Drayton McLane, Jr. and the Houston Astros Baseball Club in the team’s sale to a private equity consortium led by Mr. Jim Crane
- Advised Arcapita Bank B.S.C.(c) in its investment of over $525 million of equity capital in seven transactions with a total transaction value of approximately $1.1 billion, including the following investments:
- control investment in PODS, Inc., a provider of portable storage and moving solutions for residential and business customers;
- control investment in Varel International, Ind., L.P., a producer of polycrystalline diamond compact and roller cone bits for the oil and gas bit market and producer of roller cone bits for the mining and industrial bit market;
- control investment, through its portfolio company Varel International, Ind., L.P., of Downhole Products Limited, a producer of technologically-advanced oilfield equipment used in the construction and completion of land, offshore and subsea wells;
- exit of its investment in Smart Documents Solutions, an industry leader in solutions for electronic health records management; and
- control investment in 3P Delivery, General Transportation Services, Inc. and Affinity Logistics, home delivery logistics providers specializing in heavy items including appliances, building materials, and other heavy goods
- Advised Roark Capital Group in its investment of over $530 million of equity capital in eight transactions with a total transaction value of approximately $1.35 billion, including the following investments:
- control investment in Arby’s Restaurants, Inc., the second largest quick service sandwich chain in the United States;
- control investment in Atkins Nutritionals, Inc., a producer of high fiber and high protein portable foods;
- control investment in Wingstop Restaurants, Inc., an operator and franchisor of Wing-Stop restaurants;
- acquisition, through its portfolio company Focus Brands Inc., of Auntie Anne’s Food, Inc., a franchisor of hand-rolled soft pretzel stores; and
- control investment in CyberCore Technologies, a leading provider of information technologies services to a variety of federal government agencies with a focus on intelligence and security
- Advised SecureWorks Holding Corporation, a leading provider of information security services, in its acquisition of the MSS Division of VeriSign, Inc., and the acquisition of SecureWorks Holding Corporation by Dell Marketing L.P., a subsidiary of Dell, Inc.
- Advised Eclipsys Corporation, a leading enterprise provider for solutions and services for hospitals and clinicians, in its $1.35 billion merger with Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
- Advised Roper Industries, Inc. in its:
- acquisition of Horizon Software International, LLC, a leading provider of comprehensive software solutions and related services to the K-12 education market and to healthcare, senior living, military and corporate markets; and
- acquisition of Dynisco, a worldwide leader in the manufacturing of pressure and temperature sensors and analytical instruments
Advised SHV Holdings N.V. in its $1.44 billion sale of The David J. Joseph Company, one of the leading U.S. scrap processing and brokerage companies, to Nucor Corporation
- Advised UCB, Inc. in its joint venture with Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC to develop, promote and market levocetirizine in the United States and Puerto Rico.
- Advised Novelis, Inc., a global leader in aluminum rolled products and aluminum can recycling, in its $6 billion acquisition by Hindalco Industries Ltd.
- Advised The Home Depot, Inc., in connection with its acquisition of Cox Lumber Co.
- Advised EFACEC Engenharia, S.A. in its acquisition of Advanced Control Systems, Inc., a leading provider of smart grid solutions to the global electric power industry
- Advised EMS Technologies, Inc. in its sale of its wireless communications business to Andrews Corporation
