Cases
Significant Representations: Mergers
Acquisitions: Kainos Capital in the sale of Milk Specialties Global, a human
animal nutrition company.
Private equity firm in its acquisition of a manufacturer of clean-label preservative solutions.
Management team in its rollover investment
post-closing arrangements in connection with the buyout of an aviation operator by a private equity sponsor.
Private equity firm in the acquisition of a health
beauty products manufacturer.
Kainos Capital in the acquisition of the Slim-Fast br
, including the global business portfolio from Unilever.
Private equity firm in the acquisition of a nutritional supplements portfolio company.
Management team
founders in the buyout of their investment partner in a clothing company joint venture.
Private equity firm in the sale of a private label bottled water
beverages portfolio company.
Private equity firm in the $1.275 billion sale through a dual-track process of an oil
gas exploration
production company focused on properties in the Gulf of Mexico.
Holly Corporation in its $7 billion merger of equals with Frontier Oil Corporation.
Private equity firm in its acquisition of a nutritional ingredients portfolio company.
HM Capital in the $1.4 billion sale through an auction process of Swift Holdings, the then third-largest red meat business in the United States.
Private equity firm in the $660 million sale through an auction process of a private label food portfolio company.
Holly Corporation in drop down transactions for the sale of MLP logistics qualifying assets (including crude oil, intermediate
refined product pipelines, tanks, terminals
loading racks) to Holly Energy Partners, L.P.
Private equity firm in its exit from its investment in a newspaper company.
NYSE pharmaceutical company in its acquisition of a privately held pharmaceutical
drug delivery company.
NYSE mattress manufacturer
distributor in its acquisition of a Canadian distributor.
Seven privately held companies engaged in the oil
gas exploration
production business in their strategic acquisition of a public oil
gas company through a reverse acquisition.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
TPG Capital in connection with their $45 billion leveraged buyout of TXU Corp. (Co-Counsel).
Competitive power generation business in connection with the formation of a nuclear power plant development joint venture with a Japanese heavy machinery manufacturer.
Public oil
gas exploration
production company in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
$289 million sale through a plan of reorganization.
NYSE video rental
entertainment company in its strategic acquisition of a digital movie download company.
NYSE meat processing company in its $1.3 billion hostile tender offer of the common stock of a NASDAQ meat processing company, creating the then largest chicken producer in the United States
Mexico.
NYSE payday lender in its strategic acquisition of a private online loan company.
Capital Markets: Companies in preparing for their initial public offerings
initial listings on the NYSE
NASDAQ.
Midstream MLP
its sponsor in an approximately $150 million primary
secondary public equity offering.
Public
private issuers in connection with private preferred stock offerings.
Issuers
third parties in equity
debt tender offers.
Private retail company in a $285 million Rule 144A high-yield debt offering.
Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its initial public offering as a publicly traded master limited partnership.
Private label food portfolio company in a Rule 144A equity offering on a private securities trading platform.
OTCBB alternative energy company in a PIPE offering.
Bermuda insurance company in connection with its concurrent public offering of common shares
preferred shares.
Special Committee, Corporate Governance,
Compliance: Numerous public companies in a variety of industries (including energy, advertising, food, insurance,
technology) in corporate governance
disclosure matters.
Special committee of the board of directors of Advanced Micro Devices in connection with the formation of a joint venture with an Abu Dhabi foreign sovereign fund.
Independent directors of a NYSE advertising company with respect to corporate governance
conflict-of- interest issues.
Audit committee of the board of directors of ENSCO International Incorporated in connection with various matters.
Public companies with respect to adoption of shareholder rights plans.
Foreign private issuers with respect to registration
reporting obligations in the United States.
The above representations were h
led by Ms. Tate prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
