Rex M. Hupy

Kirkland & Ellis advised KKR, a leading global investment firm, on its significant investment in PlayOn! Sports, a leading high school sports media and technology company, alongside PlayOn’s existing shareholder, Panoramic Ventures. The investment will support PlayOn’s growth as it continues to focus on building exceptional products and experiences for state associations, high schools, high school athletes and their fans across the country. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. Read the KKR press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Jennifer Perkins, Ravi Agarwal and Francisco Morales Barron and associate Rex Hupy, debt finance partners Eric Wedel and Matthew Leist, and technology & IP transactions partner Seth Traxler and associate Bernadette Coppola.

Feb 2

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised KKR, a leading global investment firm, on its definitive agreement with apexanalytix® (apex), a leading provider of supply chain risk management software and services, to acquire a majority interest in apex. apex’s largest shareholder, Carousel Capital (Carousel), a private investment firm that invests in companies located in the Southeastern United States, will remain a significant minority owner in the company alongside KKR. Read the KKR press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Francisco Morales Barron and Leo Greenberg and associates Rex Hupy, Giorgia Nagalli, Deborah Kotkin and Richard Kenny, debt finance partners Eric Wedel and Matthew Leist and associates Peter Bang, Caroline Epstein and Alanna Carden, executive compensation partner Stephen Brecher and associates Tony Guan and James Sprague, tax partners Mike Beinus and Vivek Ratnam, litigation partner Nick Niles and associate Zach Sommers, technology & IP transactions partner Shellie Freedman and associates Jessie Perlman and Neva Little, labor & employment partner R.D. Kohut and associates Sharon Davidov and Jackson Phinney, employee benefits of counsel Jack Bernstein and associate Caitlin Pyrce, real estate partner Ian Craig and associate Lizbeth Cordova, environmental transactions partner Jonathan Kidwell and associate Dean Brower and antitrust partners Ian John, Mike Thorpe, Philipp Gnatzy and Thomas Wilson and associates Sarah Lonvick, Katie Drummonds and Shahrzad Sadjadi. Corporate associates Arjun Mocherla, Dih-Lin Wong, Stacey Shen, Victoria Legg and Jan Kapaon and paralegal Nadine Bethune provided assistance.

Jun 6

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Bettcher Industries, a leading manufacturer of protein processing equipment, on its acquisition of Frontmatec, a global manufacturer of end-to-end automated solutions for pork and beef processing, from Axcel. KKR, which acquired Bettcher in December 2021, will invest additional capital from its North American private equity strategy to support the transaction. The transaction is expected to close during the second half of 2022 subject to customary approvals. Further terms were not disclosed. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Francisco Morales Barron, Andrew Arons and Jennifer Perkins and associate Rex Hupy, debt finance partners Eric Wedel and Matthew Leist, and tax partners Mike Beinus and Vivek Ratnam. Kirkland worked closely with Danish local counsel Moalem Weitemeyer throughout the transaction.

May 24

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised funds managed by Stone Point Capital LLC, a leading private equity firm focused on investing in financial services, on its acquisition of ECN Kessler Holdco LLC (the “Kessler Group”), a wholly-owned, indirect subsidiary of ECN Capital Corp. (TSX: ECN). The Kessler Group is the market leader in managing, advising and structuring credit card and other consumer portfolios for credit card issuers, banks, credit unions, processors and payment networks. The sale is expected to generate cash proceeds of $210 million, and is expected to close late in the third quarter of 2022 or early in the fourth quarter of 2022. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Ravi Agarwal and David Feirstein and associates Rex Hupy and Deborah Kotkin; debt finance partners Eric Wedel and Ben Steadman and associate Raghav Gupta; and tax partners Jared Rusman and Timothy Campany and associate Dana Quinn.

Aug 25

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that 193 attorneys have been promoted to partner effective October 1, 2022. Austin Name Practice Area Sean McClay Debt Finance Bay Area Name Practice Area Katya Boyko M&A and Private Equity Kyle Calhoun Intellectual Property Litigation Andrew Chan Tax Courtney Chen Investment Funds Zeke Couch Investment Funds Michael Hanna M&A and Private Equity Jared Maher M&A and Private Equity Ankur Sharma M&A and Private Equity Jessica Tjang Debt Finance Beijing Name Practice Area Justin You Zhou Capital Markets Boston Name Practice Area Brian Allen Investment Funds S. Grant Bowen Debt Finance Larissa Cespedes-Yaffar M&A and Private Equity Charles Chen Investment Funds Alexander Flynn-Tabloff Employment & Labor Tiffany M. Knapp Intellectual Property Litigation Scott Lenahan Investment Funds Alisha Patterson Investment Funds Chicago Name Practice Area Amelia Bailey Litigation Michael F. Black Investment Funds Kelsey Bleiweiss Litigation Cassandra Catalano Litigation Chris Chase Employee Benefits Bernadette Coppola Technology & IP Transactions Lee Discher Debt Finance Hannah Ehrenberg Real Estate Cot Eversole Capital Markets Cameron Ginder Litigation Jessica Giulitto Litigation Emily Hogan Debt Finance Kevin Jacobsen Technology & IP Transactions Nathan Jimenez Investment Funds Justin Joffe M&A and Private Equity Deidre Kalenderian Executive Compensation James Kestler Litigation Dan Latona Restructuring Michael LeFevour Litigation Patrick Loughery Debt Finance Caroline Lourgos Intellectual Property Litigation Kevin McClelland Restructuring Ryan McNish Investment Funds Taylor Melching M&A and Private Equity A.J. Million Capital Markets Patricia Radkowski Litigation Bruce Ratain Intellectual Property Litigation Tricia Schwallier Collins Restructuring Ashley Sinclair Capital Markets Kevin Stocks M&A and Private Equity Andrew Struckmeyer M&A and Private Equity Eric Sweigard M&A and Private Equity Julia Trotta Investment Funds Jordan Turban Miles M&A and Private Equity Patrick Valenti Investment Funds Daniella Vespoli M&A and Private Equity Neil Vohra M&A and Private Equity Kate Walling Litigation Andrew Walter Intellectual Property Litigation Jenny Warfield Real Estate Nicholas Warther Tax Michael Wester Investment Funds Margaret Yeager Private Equity/Private Investment & Family Office Ziyad Ziyadzade M&A and Private Equity Dallas Name Practice Area Victoria Acuff Real Estate Noah Allen Capital Markets Layton Bell Debt Finance Rudgee S. Charles Asset Finance & Securitization William C. Eiland II M&A and Private Equity Rebecca Fine Tax Ruben Garcia Litigation Catharine Hansard M&A and Private Equity Sable Hodson Litigation Randall W. Miller Litigation Hong Kong Name Practice Area Ryan Choi Capital Markets Min Lu M&A and Private Equity Stacey Shen M&A and Private Equity Shinong Wang Investment Funds Ling Zhu Investment Funds Houston Name Practice Area Jennifer Cornejo Environmental Transactions Patrick Corrigan M&A and Private Equity Alia Heintz M&A and Private Equity Ieuan List Capital Markets Rex Manning Litigation Patrick Y. Moneypenny M&A and Private Equity Ryan Phelps Tax Scott Reid Debt Finance Anthony Sanderson Capital Markets Zach Savrick M&A and Private Equity Shainee Shah Litigation Billy Vranish Capital Markets Camille Walker M&A and Private Equity Fraser Wayne M&A and Private Equity London Name Practice Area Gabriella Bornstein Intellectual Property Litigation Aisling Campbell Investment Funds Jacqueline Clover Technology & IP Transactions Chris Connolly M&A and Private Equity Daniel D’Ambrosio ESG and Impact Sion Davies Antitrust & Competition John de Rohan-Truba Intellectual Property Litigation Jack Donelan M&A and Private Equity Emma Faulkner-Hill Tax Joel Gory Antitrust & Competition Ben Hai M&A and Private Equity Rehan Hanif Debt Finance Gabe Harley Restructuring Hamesh Khatkar M&A and Private Equity Victoria Legg M&A and Private Equity Chrystel Marincich Capital Markets Patrick Navein Litigation Jiri Peterka M&A and Private Equity Lorenza Prelz Oltramonti Investment Funds David Pritchett Investment Funds Emma Reid Financial Services Regulatory Oscar Robinson Intellectual Property Litigation Claire Rushton M&A and Private Equity Shahrzad Sadjadi Antitrust & Competition Noah Stewart-Ornstein Litigation Jamie Thomson Investment Funds Los Angeles Name Practice Area Yvonne Beeler Intellectual Property Litigation Matthew Benedetto M&A and Private Equity Sam Blake Intellectual Property Litigation Yungmoon Chang Intellectual Property Litigation Eric Cohen M&A and Private Equity Caroline Epstein Debt Finance Amelia Gordon Debt Finance Andrew Hurley Debt Finance Garry Padrta M&A and Private Equity Ingrid Petersen Intellectual Property Litigation Christopher Raidy Debt Finance Michael Rosenberg Litigation Matthew Summers Litigation Munich Name Practice Area Marlene Ruf Restructuring New York Name Practice Area Sara Allawi Investment Funds Rachael Bentley Restructuring Guillemette Chamayou Investment Funds Jacob Clark Real Estate Linda Dahl Investment Funds Nathaniel DeLucia Intellectual Property Litigation Samuel Dykstra Environmental Transactions Vera Esses Litigation Ciara Foster Restructuring Peter C. Fritz M&A and Private Equity Asaf Gamzo Investment Funds J. Todd Garcia, Jr. Antitrust & Competition Olivia George Debt Finance Zoey Hitzert Capital Markets Timothy Hughes Debt Finance Derek Hunter Restructuring Rex Hupy M&A and Private Equity Jake Jung Tax Olga Kamensky Investment Funds Jennifer Karinen Capital Markets Kim Kaufman Investment Funds Katy Kim Investment Funds John Kleinjan Executive Compensation Jenny Lee Litigation Christie Mok Capital Markets Thomas Norelli Trusts & Estates Eugene Park Debt Finance Leila Ravi Debt Finance Brittany Roger Debt Finance Joanna Schlingbaum Technology & IP Transactions Fishel Schreiber Executive Compensation Ned Schultheis M&A and Private Equity Allyson Smith Restructuring Dominic Spence Real Estate Haley Stern Litigation Amanda Katlowitz Strickler Investment Funds David M. Towarnicky M&A and Private Equity Charles Wehbe M&A and Private Equity Colin Zelicof M&A and Private Equity Salt Lake City Name Practice Area Paul Hendrickson Tax Cameron Leishman M&A and Private Equity Matthew Pinegar Investment Funds Elena Simion M&A and Private Equity Spencer Topham M&A and Private Equity Shanghai Name Practice Area Sally Han Litigation Nelson Ni M&A and Private Equity Washington D.C. Name Practice Area Patrick Arnett Intellectual Property Litigation David Branham Executive Compensation Erin Cady Litigation Katherine Canning Litigation Steven Cantor Tax Michelle Sliwinski DeMaio Environmental Transactions Katie Drummonds Antitrust & Competition Lucie Duvall Antitrust & Competition/Consumer Protection Don Hong Litigation Mary Miller Litigation Karthik Ravishankar Intellectual Property Litigation Emily Scott Intellectual Property Litigation Ben Wallace Litigation Sally Ye Executive Compensation Note: For certain partners, admission will take effect when any necessary regulatory requirements have been satisfied.

Oct 3

4 min