ProfessionalsJi Lu
Tel: +1-202-223-7353
Fax: +1-202-204-7353
jlu@paulweiss.com
As a partner in the Corporate Department, Ji Lu is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Groups. In her practice, Ji has represented private equity and strategic buyers and sellers in the United States and Europe in domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buy-outs, minority investments, joint ventures, carve-out transactions and recapitalizations in a variety of industries including telecommunications, manufacturing, asset management, pharmaceuticals, software, satellite, financial services, trading and brokerage. Ji also advises sponsors in the M&A aspects of private funds secondary transactions.
EXPERIENCE
Ji’s experience includes the following representations:
- Oak Hill Capital and its portfolio companies in various transactions, including its:
- portfolio company, Metronet, in its sale to a joint venture between T-Mobile and KKR
- portfolio company, Metronet, in its co-investment by KKR and Oak Hill Capital
- portfolio company, Berlin, in its recapitalization and various acquisitions
- portfolio company, Mercer, in the expansion of its ownership group to include Altas Partners
- KPS Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in various transactions, including its:
- acquisition of the porcelain enamel, glass coatings, forehearth colorants and frit-based metallurgical products businesses of Prince International Corporation
- acquisition of the fitness business of Brunswick Corporation, including the Life Fitness brand
- sale of the attachments division of its portfolio company, International Equipment Solutions, to Stanley Black & Decker
- sale of Genesis Attachments to NPK Construction Equipment
- sale of Anchor Glass Container Corporation to funds advised by CVC Capital Partners and BA Glass B.V.
- sale of Waupaca Foundry to Hitachi Metals
- acquisition of Anchor Glass Container Corporation
- acquisitions by its portfolio company, International Equipment Solutions of Saic do Brasil Ltda. in Brazil and CWS Industries (Mfg) Corp. in Canada
- acquisition of Waupaca Foundry from ThyssenKrupp Budd Company
- General Atlantic in its:
- formation of various continuation funds, including its debut multi-asset fund totaling $3 billion, the largest secondaries fund raised at the time
- investments in Authentic Brands Group, Gen II and EN Engineering
- acquisition and combination of two online brokerage firms, OptionsHouse and tradeMonster
- $2.7 billion sale of Gavilon Holdings to Marubeni Corporation
- CI Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in various transactions, including:
- portfolio company Maroon Group, in various add-on acquisitions and subsequent sale of the portfolio company to Cinven backed Barentz International
- acquisition of the portfolio company Mariani Landscape and subsequent add-on acquisitions
- Wellspring Capital Managementin its $975 million multi-asset continuation vehicle for its portfolio interests in Supply One, Cadence, and Pentac Health
- Ericsson in its:
- acquisitions of Nortel’s North American GSM business and multi service switch business
- formation of consortium Rockstar Bidco and the acquisition by Rockstar of Nortel's $4.5 billion patent portfolio
- separate acquisitions of Telcordia Technologies, Microsoft Mediaroom, Apcera and Azuki Systems
- the divestment of its media business, Media Solutions, to One Equity Partners
- sale of a minority stake in iconectiv to Francisco Partners
- sale of patent portfolio to Unwired Planet, Inc.
- separate divestitures of Applied Communication Sciences and Ericsson Federal
- Citigroup, in its disposition of the retail brokerage business of Nikko Cordial for $7.9 billion to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
- The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Alliance Tire Group, a global manufacturer and seller of off highway tires for agriculture, construction and forestry machinery
- SOFIE Biosciences, in a substantial strategic growth investment made by Trilantic North America
- Befesa S.A. in its acquisition of American Zinc Recycling Corp.
- NAV CANADA in its investment in Aireon, the developer of the world's first space-based global air traffic surveillance system
- Intelsat in its formation of a South African joint venture and completion of a related $230 million project financing for a new satellite
- Grain Management in its acquisition of wireless spectrum from AT&T and Verizon Wireless