Christopher Grady

Kirkland & Ellis advised O2 Investment Partners, a private equity firm investing in growth-oriented, privately-held businesses in the North American lower middle market, on the fundraising for O2 Investment Partners Fund V (Fund V) with $670 million in capital commitments. Read O2 Investment Partners’ press release The Kirkland team included investment funds lawyers Dan McQuade, Michael Black, William Ballentine, Kendall Kilberger and Allie Sopp; investment funds regulatory lawyers Nicholas Hemmingsen, Danielle Sartain and Matt Davis; investment funds ERISA lawyer Christine Matott; tax lawyers Dan Meehan and Florian Schütte; and financial services regulatory lawyers Albert Weatherill, Sky Kim and Matt Dixon-Ward.

Mar 3

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm, on the sale of its portfolio company Ellie Mae®, the leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, to Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of mortgage technology, data and listing services. The transaction is valued at an enterprise value of $11 billion, and is expected to close in the third quarter or early fourth quarter of 2020, following the receipt of regulatory approvals and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Read the company press release from Intercontinental Exchange The Kirkland team was led by transactional partners Peter Stach and Amelia Runyan Davis and associates Christopher Grady and Jake Flood; tax partners Kevin Coenen and Adam Kool; debt financing partner Brian Ford; technology & IP transactions partners Seth Traxler and Matthew Colman; employee benefits partner Matthew Antinossi; executive compensation partners Michael Falk and Ian Sherwin; employment & labor partner Michael Schulman; environmental transactions partner Sara Webber; real estate partner John Caruso; government contracts partner Robert Ryland; international trade partner Anthony Rapa; and antitrust & competition partners James Mutchnik, Chuck Boyars and Sally Evans. Transactional partners Gerald Nowak, Ted Peto and Bradley Reed also assisted on the transaction.

Aug 7

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Bain Capital Private Equity and its portfolio company US LBM, a leading distributor of specialty building materials in the United States, on US LBM’s acquisition of American Construction Source ("ACS"), a leading national building materials distribution platform for custom home builders and repair and remodel contractors. Upon completion of the acquisition, US LBM will operate nearly 400 locations nationwide. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed. Read the US LBM press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partner Christopher Thomas and associate Christopher Grady, and debt finance partners Melissa Hutson and Yuli Wang.

May 25

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising GTCR in its definitive agreement to acquire ADT’s Commercial fire and security segment (ADTC) from ADT Inc. (NYSE: ADT), a transaction that values the business at approximately $1.6 billion. ADTC is among the leading national providers of electronic security and fire safety services to commercial enterprises and multi-site national accounts. It was formed through ADT's 2017 merger with Protection 1 (P1), a prior GTCR investment. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2023 subject to customary regulatory approvals. Read GTCR’s press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Daniel Guerin, Kyle McHugh and Stephen Ritchie, and also included corporate associates Christopher Grady, Kate Kennedy, Katie Nagley, Andrew Zeller and Anna Grilley; debt finance partners Patrick Loughery and Thomas Dobleman and associates Alex Straka and Alex Bender; tax partners Mike Carew and Polina Liberman and associate Rory Minnis; executive compensation partner Michael Krasnovsky and associates Lauren Cates and Dillon Jones; employee benefits partner Alexandra Mihalas and associates Mackenzie Packard and Hannah Barlow; technology & IP transactions partners Seth Traxler, Aaron Lorber and Matthew Darch and associates John Poulos and Malia Taqbeem; employment and labor partner Sydney Jones and associates Jaime Wamble and Maayan Sachs; real estate partner Rob Miceli and associate Benjamin Stoyenko; environmental partner Carleigh Trappe-Rodriguez and associate Katie McKeen; litigation partner Aaron Marks; international trade & national security partners Mario Mancuso and Luci Hague and associate Chad Crowell; government contracts partner Boyd Greene; antitrust & competition partners Ian John, Jill Ross and Mike Thorpe and associates Catherine Kordestani and Ben Feis; transactional liability insurance partners Hayley Hollender and Jessica Sicsu; and investment funds partners Sean Malone, Mike Pergler and Katy Kim and associates Devon Salge and Zachary Scott Roemer.

Aug 8

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Bain Capital Private Equity on its acquisition of a majority stake in US LBM, a leading distributor of specialty building materials in the United States. US LBM will continue to operate under the leadership of President and CEO L.T. Gibson and the current management team. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in December 2020 and is subject to customary closing conditions. Read the US LBM press release The Kirkland team was led by transactional partners Christopher Thomas, Elizabeth Freechack and Eunu Chun and associates Christopher Grady and Mel Kim, and debt finance partners Melissa Hutson and Yuli Wang.

Nov 13

1 min