EXPERIENCE

Brian's recent private equity transactions include representing:

• Oak Hill Capital Partners in numerous transactions including:
  • its majority investment and acquisition of Wire3
  • its agreement to invest in and partner with U.S. Oral Surgery Management
  • its strategic partnership with Ontario & Trumansburg Telephone Companies
  • in partnership with Trinity Consultants’ management and employees, in its acquisition of Trinity Consultants from Levine Leichtman
  • its acquisition of a controlling stake in Technimark Holdings
  • its investment and partnership with American Veterinary Group
  • in the merger of The Hillman Group, a portfolio company of Oak Hill Capital, and Landcadia Holdings III, a special purpose acquisition company
  • its partnership with NetSpeed
  • its investment in Race Communications
  • its take-private acquisition of Otelco Inc.
  • its investment in Calero Software to finance its merger with MDSL
  • its minority equity sale to Stonyrock Partners
  • its acquisition of an equity stake in Mercer Advisors from Genstar Capital and Lovell Minnick Partners
  • its acquisition of Berlin Packaging from Investcorp
  • its acquisition of FirstLight Fiber from Riverside Partners
  • its investment in VetCor Group
  • its acquisition of Safe Fleet Holdings from The Sterling Group and the subsequent sale of Safe Fleet to Clarience Technologies
  • its sale of Wave Broadband
  • its acquisition of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants from Sentinel Capital Partners
  • its acquisition and subsequent sale of ViaWest, Inc.
  • its numerous transactions involving its portfolio companies including, AccentCare, Berlin Packaging, FirstLight, Firth Rixson and Imagine! Print Solutions
• General Atlantic in multiple transactions, including:
  • its investment in Buff City Soap
  • its growth investment in SPINS, alongside Warburg Pincus and Georgian
  • its investment in Certinia
  • its investment in PT Solutions
  • its investment in Mobileye
• Brookfield Partners in numerous transactions, including:
  • its acquisition of a 50% stake of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice's ownership interest in BrandSafway
  • a restructuring of its portfolio company, Altera Infrastructure
  • a potential take-private
• Cast & Crew Entertainment Services, a portfolio company of Silver Lake Partners, in its sale to EQT
• The Chatterjee Group and Rhône Capital in their $2.725 billion joint acquisition of Lummus Technology, a division of McDermott International, in connection with the company’s chapter 11 case
• Clearlake Capital Group in a consortium deal to acquire Chelsea Football Club
• Crestview Partners in its multiple investments including:
  • with other institutional investors in Cumulus’s Media Inc. as part of Cumulus’ acquisition of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation
  • Camping World/Good Sam Enterprises
• Helios Fairfax Partners Corporation, alongside other investors including the National Basketball Association, in the formation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will conduct the league’s business in Africa, including the Basketball Africa League
• MetroNet in its co-investment by KKR and Oak Hill Capital
• Shred-it International, a portfolio company of Birch Hill Equity Partners, in its merger with Cintas Corporation’s document destruction business
• TPG Capital in its investment in G&A Partners
• WaveDivision Capital and Searchlight Capital Partners in their $1.35 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications’ Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana operations

Brian’s recent public company transactions include representing:

• ARIAD Pharmaceuticals in its $5.2 billion acquisition by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
• Cigna in its acquisition of Brighter Inc.
• Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co. in its $2.6 billion acquisition of Sepracor
• The Discovery Channel in its 50/50 joint venture with Hasbro to launch The Hub
• Emdeon in its $3.1 billion sale to Blackstone
• The special committee of the board of directors of Pattern Energy Group Inc. in its approximately $6.1 billion all-cash acquisition by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)
• Restaurant Brands International in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
• Time Warner Cable in its $78.7 billion merger with Charter Communications
• Tricon Residential in its $3.5 billion take-private sale to Blackstone Real Estate Partners X and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust
• Universal American Corp. in its acquisition of APS Healthcare

Brian’s recent private company transactions include representing:

• Boat Rocker Media in its acquisition of Matador Content
• DS Services Holdings in its $1.25 billion sale to Cott Corporation from Crestview Partners
• The Getty family in its buyout of The Carlyle Group’s interests in Getty Images Inc.
• Hemisphere Media Group in its acquisition of the remaining 75% stake in Pantaya from Lionsgate
• Major League Baseball in its $2.15 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers to Guggenheim Baseball Management
• MGM in its $8.45 billion sale to Amazon
• ViaWest in its C$2.3 billion sale to Shaw Communications from Oak Hill Capital, along with other shareholders, and the subsequent sale of ViaWest by Shaw Communications to Peak10
• Vice Media in connection with various private placements and its joint venture with A&E Networks to launch VICELAND
• WME IMG (now Endeavor) in:
  • connection with the merger of Learfield with IMG College, a subsidiary of Endeavor
  • its strategic partnership with, and sale of a minority interest to, Silver Lake Partners
  • the formation of a new China-based subsidiary
  • its investments in WME IMG by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, GIC and SoftBank Group
  • its acquisitions of Ultimate Fighting Championship, Fusion Marketing and IMG LIVE

Brian is recognized by The Legal 500 as a key lawyer in private equity buyouts and as one of the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” by Lawdragon.