EXPERIENCE

Cullen’s recent private equity and portfolio company experience includes representing:

• Brookfield:
  • in its $1.5 billion strategic partnership with Castlelake
  • in its acquisition of a significant minority stake in Primary Wave Music, as part of a new strategic partnership valued at over $2 billion
  • in its acquisition of a 50% stake of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s ownership interest in BrandSafway
  • alongside Simon Property Group in their acquisition of certain assets of J.C. Penney Company in connection with J.C. Penney’s chapter 11 case
• Cast & Crew Entertainment Services, a portfolio company of Silver Lake Partners, in its sale to EQT
• Davidson Kempner Capital Management in the acquisition of Chemoil Terminals (n/k/a Olympus Terminals) and the sale of Olympus Terminals to TPG Rise Climate
• Driven Brands Holdings, a portfolio company of Roark Capital, in its acquisitions of All Star Glass and Auto Glass Now
• General Atlantic:
  • in its co-investment with Bridgepoint in Kyriba
  • in its acquisition of Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure with approximately $12.5 billion in AUM
  • in the $4 billion sale of its publicly traded portfolio company, EngageSmart, to Vista Equity Partners
  • in its $1.5 billion take-private acquisition of Arco Platform Limited
  • in its investment in Financial Information Technologies
  • in its acquisition of Iron Park Capital to form General Atlantic Credit
  • in the sale of its stake in CinCor Pharma, in connection with CinCor’s $1.8 billion sale to AstraZeneca
  • in its $450 million investment in the Thoma Bravo-led acquisition of Coupa Software for approximately $8 billion
  • as lead investor in a $1.4 billion investment in Sierra Space
  • in its acquisition of PANTHERx Rare alongside Nautic Partners and The Vistria Group
  • in its strategic investment in Landmark Health
  • in its investment in CareMetx alongside The Vistria Group
  • in its investment in General Information Services; GIS’s acquisition of HireRight; and HireRight’s $422 million initial public offering
  • in a consortium alongside Stone Point Capital in their proposed $1.65 billion take-private acquisition of HireRight
  • in the sale of its minority interest in Oak Hill Advisors
  • in a number of other growth investments, including 80 Acres Farms, Albert, Branch, Chronosphere, Evisort, Guideline, Jio Platforms, Jobber, NYDIG, Reliance Retail Ventures, Talos and others
• Global Infrastructure Partners in its $15 billion acquisition (together with KKR) of CyrusOne
• KPS Capital Partners:
  • in its €3.5 billion acquisition of Innomotics from Siemens
  • in its acquisition of Catalyst Acoustics Group from The Stephens Group
  • alongside its portfolio company, Metra, in their acquisition of Belding Machinery and Equipment Leasing
  • alongside its portfolio company Speira in their acquisition of Real Alloy Europe
  • in its $3.45 billion acquisition of Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope from CRH plc, and in OBE’s acquisition of Syracuse Glass Company
  • in its acquisition of Profile Custom Extrusions from Highlander Partners
  • in Electrical Components International’s acquisition of Fargo Assembly Company and in ECI’s sale to an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management
  • in its affiliate’s acquisition of the Esterline Interface Technologies group of businesses from TransDigm Group to form AIS Global; and AIS Global’s acquisition of Touch International
  • in its acquisition of the rod lift solutions unit of Lufkin Industries from oilfield services provider Baker Hughes; and in Lufkin’s acquisitions of US Rod Manufacturing, Patriot Pump and the North American Land Rod Lift Business of Schlumberger N.V.
  • in its $1.7 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in the Primary Products Business in North America and Latin America of Tate & Lyle to form Primient; and its subsequent acquisition of Tate & Lyle’s remaining ownership interest in Primient
  • alongside its portfolio company Autokiniton Global Group in the $900 million take-private acquisition of Tower International
• Manulife Investment Management, alongside other affiliates, in their acquisition of a controlling interest in Serverfarm
• Oak Hill Capital in its acquisition of Safe Fleet Holdings from The Sterling Group
• XN LP, as lead investor, in an investment in Manticore Games

Cullen’s recent public and private company representations include:

• Advance, a founder and major shareholder of Discovery, Inc., in the $150 billion Reverse Morris Trust transaction that will combine AT&T’s WarnerMedia business with Discovery, Inc.
• Alere, Inc. in its $5.3 billion sale to Abbott Laboratories
• The special committee of Duck Creek Technologies’ board of directors in connection with Duck Creek’s $2.6 billion take-private sale to Vista Equity Partners
• The special committee of the board of directors of Expedia Group in its acquisition of Liberty Expedia Holdings
• Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, in the $2.49 billion all-cash sale of a majority stake in its internal business and administrative services, Community Oncology Revitalization Enterprise Ventures, to McKesson Corporation
• GE Capital and its GE Capital Aviation Services unit in its sale of PK AirFinance to Apollo Global Management and Athene Holding
• The Getty family in its buyout of The Carlyle Group’s interests in Getty Images
• HEICO Corporation in its acquisition of Wencor Group from affiliates of Warburg Pincus and Wencor’s management for a purchase price of over $2 billion
• Hemisphere Media Group in its acquisition of the remaining 75% stake in Pantaya from Lionsgate
• Jet Edge International in its investment by KKR and its subsequent sale to Vista Jet
• Top U.S. homebuilders including Hubble Homes, John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods, Orleans Homes, PulteGroup, Stanley Martin Communities and Trumark Homes in a variety of M&A transactions
• MGM in its $8.45 billion sale to Amazon
• Perspecta in its $7.1 billion sale to Peraton and Veritas Capital
• QTS Realty Trust in its $10 billion sale to Blackstone
• Restaurant Brands International in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
• Simon Property Group in its $3.6 billion acquisition of an 80% ownership interest in The Taubman Realty Group, the operating partnership of Taubman Centers
• Taylor Morrison Home Corporation:
  • in its $2.5 billion acquisition of William Lyon Homes
  • in its approximately $1 billion acquisition of AV Homes
  • in its acquisition of Pyatt Builders
• 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 (the collegiate division of Endeavor), its acquisition of IMG Worldwide and a variety of other M&A transactions

Cullen is on the board of directors of Pioneer Works, a non-profit cultural center focused on arts and science.