Sydney Jones Lampard

• Advised 3M in its pending $1.95 billion acquisition of Madison Fire & Rescue from Madison Industries with Bain Capital and combination with Scott Safety to form a fire and safety joint venture.
• Advised Quanta Services in its $1.35 billion acquisition of Dynamic Systems.
• Advised Baker Hughes in its pending $1.45 billion sale of Waygate Technologies to Hexagon AB.
• Advised NCR Atleos in its merger with The Brink’s Company in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $6.6 billion.
• Advised The Honey Baked Ham Company in connection with its sale to Garnett Station Partners.
• Advised Industrial Realty Group in contributing 98 industrial assets to Sachem Capital to form IRG Realty Trust, a scaled industrial REIT with a $3.4 billion implied enterprise value.
• Advised AccuLynx in its definitive agreement to be acquired by Verisk for $2.35 billion.
• Advised Booz Allen Hamilton in its $720 million acquisition of Ultra I&C Mission Solutions.
• Advised The Marzetti Company on its $400 million acquisition of Bachan’s, Inc.
• Advised EVE Partners in its acquisition of Logistic Dynamics from Tritium Partners.
• Advised Diverzify, a platform company of ACON Equity, on a preferred equity investment by Paceline Equity Partners.
• Advised EVE Partners in connection with its acquisition of Riverstone Logistics and add-on acquisition of Onward Delivery Corp.
• Advised SK Capital Partners in its acquisition of Brothers International Food Holdings.
• Advised Trive Capital on its investment in JF Fitness of North America.
• Advised Cox Automotive in connection with its acquisition of Bel Air Auto Auction and Tallahassee Auto Action from BSC America.
• Advised EVE Partners in its acquisition of Velociti, LLC.
• Advised H.I.G. Capital in the sale of its portfolio company USALCO to The Jordan Company.
• Advised NCR Voyix Corporation (NYSE: VYX) in the carveout sale of its digital banking business to Veritas Capital for $2.45 billion.
• Advised UPS in the sale of its Coyote Logistics business to RXO, Inc. (NYSE: RXO) for $1.025 billion.
• Advised H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of Municipal Valve & Equipment Company Inc., in an add-on transaction for its existing platform, United Flow Technologies.
• Advised Atlas Holdings in its acquisition of Cleco Cajun from Cleco Corporate Holdings.
• Advised Twin Rivers Paper Company in its acquisition of the Potsdam NY Paper Mill from Potsdam Specialty Paper Inc.
• Advised GTCR in its acquisition of ADT’s Commercial fire and security segment (ADTC) from ADT Inc., valued at $1.6 billion.*
• Advised BC Partners and Vista Private Equity on the carve-out sale of its portfolio company, Advanced, to IBM.*
• Advised Toys "R" Us, Pier 1 Imports and other major retailers in connection with the employment aspects of their restructurings.*
• Advised Bain Capital in its minority investment in CI Financial Corp,’s.*
• Advised Banyan Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: BYN) on its business combination with Pinstripes, Inc.*
• Advised TA Associates on its strategic investment in Radiant Logic.*
• Advised Vista Equity Partners portfolio company Cvent on its $5 billion business combination with Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp. II (NYSE: DGNS).*
• Advised Thoma Bravo on its controlling investment in Bluesight.*
• Advised Vista Equity Partners on its acquisition of Avalara, Inc. (NYSE: AVLR) in partnership with institutional co-investors for $8.4 billion.*
• Advised L Catterton in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Truck Hero®, Inc., the leading provider of functional aftermarket accessories for pickup trucks and Jeep® vehicles.*
• Advised AE Industrial Partners and its portfolio company American Pacific Corporation on the sale of AMPAC Intermediate Holdings, LLC to NewMarket Corporation (NYSE: NEU) for approximately $700 million.*
• Advised Hg on a strategic investment in CINC Systems.*
• Advised Platinum Equity LLC in its acquisition of HarbisonWalker International, Inc..*
• Advised GTCR in its acquisition of a majority stake in Worldpay from FIS® (NYSE: FIS) in a transaction valuing the business at $18.5 billion.*
• Advised TA Associates, True Wind Capital and e-Emphasys Technologies on the carveout acquisition of CDK Global Heavy Equipment.*
• Advised Proofpoint, a Thoma Bravo portfolio company, in its acquisition of Tessian.*
• Advised H.I.G. Capital on the sale of Tastes on the Fly.*
• *Includes experience prior to joining King & Spalding

Sydney Jones Lampard has been recognized as a leading practitioner by Chambers USA for her labor and employment practice. She has advised on more than a thousand corporate transactions and restructurings, and serves as a trusted advisor to clients across a broad range of labor and employment matters, including high-stakes executive terminations, workplace issues and internal investigations, restrictive covenants, the WARN Act, wage and hour compliance, collective bargaining, and compliance with other labor and employment laws.

She advises private equity funds and public and private companies on labor and employment-related risks and considerations in complex transactions and restructurings across a multitude of industries, including technology, retail, life sciences and healthcare, aerospace, energy, and telecommunications. She regularly conducts labor and employment-related due diligence and risk assessment for multi-national mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations and sales, and counsels clients on workforce integration and separation considerations. She also represents lenders and other financial institutions in various transactions.

Sydney offers clients innovative and pragmatic solutions, and leverages her extensive experience in representing both employers and management in drafting and negotiating executive employment and separation agreements, consulting agreements, and restrictive covenants. She also maintains a comprehensive counseling practice, advising clients on matters related to compliance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, and related state and local laws.