ProfessionalsSean Fitzpatrick
Tel: +1-212-373-3548
Fax: +1-212-492-0548
sfitzpatrick@paulweiss.com
sfitzpatrick@paulweiss.com
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York,
NY
10019-6064
Fax: +1-212-492-0548
Sean Fitzpatrick is an associate in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Sean advises public and private companies, including private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, in a variety of significant transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, recapitalizations and corporate restructurings. Sean regularly assists companies and sponsors with a broad range of other general corporate, securities laws and governance matters.
EXPERIENCE
Sean’s notable recent representations have included:
- American Securities and its portfolio companies, including in its sale of a majority stake in Aspen Dental Management Inc. and Metaldyne Performance Group Inc. in its sale to American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc.*
- Antin Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of FirstLight Fiber*
- AppHarvest in its business combination with Novus Capital Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company*
- Ares Management in connection with its investment transaction in Virgin Voyages
- Axel Springer in its acquisition of Morning Brew*
- Blackstone in the acquisition of Concert Golf Properties by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities*
- Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in its approximately $843 million (C$1.2 billion) investment in Tallgrass Energy
- Centerbridge Partners and its portfolio companies, including in its sale of P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc., its sale of Pei Wei Asian Diner LLC and True Food Kitchen’s receipt of a minority investment by Ms. Oprah Winfrey*
- Datalogue, Inc. in its sale to Nike*
- EQT Infrastructure VI Fund in its acquisition of Lazer Logistics from Harvest Partners and in Lazer Logistics’ acquisition of Hirschbach Motor Lines’ spotting operations
- The Estée Lauder Companies in its acquisition of the Tom Ford brand
- Function of Beauty in its minority investment from L Catterton*
- General Atlantic in its investment in Gusto
- Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division in its sale of Drayer Physical Therapy Institute, LLC to Upstream Rehabilitation Inc. *
- IBM in its acquisitions of Dialexa, Neudesic and NS1
- The Julia Koch family in their minority investment in BSE Global, the parent company of the Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty and Barclays Center
- Kohlberg & Company in its acquisition of Myers EPS
- Lee Equity Partners and its portfolio companies, including in its acquisition of K-MAC Holdings Corp.*
- Newport Global Advisors and Uno Restaurant Holdings Corporation in the sale of Uno Foods, its frozen foods manufacturing business, to Great Kitchens Food Company
- Oak Hill in its acquisition of US Oral Surgery Management
- Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in its acquisition of APCO*
- Restaurant Brands International in its acquisition of Firehouse Restaurant Group
- Roark Capital Group and its portfolio companies, including in its acquisition of Asset Living
- SDC Capital Partners in its investment in Effectual
- Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) and its portfolio companies, including in its portfolio company Teasdale Foods, Inc.’s acquisitions of Rudy’s Food Products, Mesa Foods and the "Casa Fiesta" brands*
- Thomas H. Lee Partners and its portfolio companies, including in its sale of a majority stake of 1-800 CONTACTS, Inc. to AEA Investors and its sale of a 50% interest in inVentiv Health, Inc. to Advent International*
- TPG Capital in its investment in G&A Partners
- ZT Systems in its $4.9 billion sale to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
*Matters worked on prior to joining Paul, Weiss