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Reuven Falik
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1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019-6064
Fax: +1-212-492-0399

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Reuven Falik is a partner in the Executive Compensation Group. Reuven advises a wide variety of clients in transactional matters, including private and publicly-held corporations, with respect to the executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in mergers, sales, other acquisitions, dispositions and initial public offerings. His practice includes the structuring and design of equity compensation arrangements, including stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, phantom stock, performance shares and LLC/partnership interests (including profits interests), and all facets of nonqualified deferred compensation plans and arrangements. Reuven regularly provides guidance on compliance with ERISA, tax, corporate, federal and state securities laws, and other laws and regulations affecting employee benefit plans, programs and arrangements. He also has experience in advising clients on compensation and benefits issues unique to bankruptcy and restructuring transactions and represents employers, compensation committees and executives in the negotiation, design and drafting of employment and separation agreements.

In 2024, Reuven was recognized as a “Leading Corporate Employment Lawyer” by Lawdragon. Reuven is a certified public accountant.

EXPERIENCE

Reuven’s notable representations include:

Private Equity M&A

  • Angelo Gordon in its $2.7 billion sale to TPG to form TPG Angelo Gordon
  • Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in:
    • its $6.3 billion acquisition of International Game Technology’s gaming and digital business IGT Gaming and Everi Holdings
    • its $500 million convertible preferred stock investment in Cengage Group
    • the $7.5 billion acquisition of the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) business of Lumen Technologies in 20 U.S. states to create Brightspeed, the nation's fifth largest ILEC
  • Baring Private Equity Asia in its approximately $7.5 billion sale to EQT AB
  • Brighton Park Capital in its $250 million investment in TickPick
  • Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in its $775 million acquisition of Cyxtera in connection with its chapter 11 case
  • The Cadmus Group, a portfolio company of CI Capital Partners, in its:
    • acquisition of Nathan Associates
    • acquisition of Wheelhouse Group
  • EQT Infrastructure VI Fund in its acquisition of Lazer Logistics from Harvest Partners
  • Kohlberg & Co. in:
    • its acquisition of Worldwide Clinical Trials
    • its growth capital investment in United Digestive
    • the financing aspects of its acquisition of Myers Emergency Power Systems (Myers EPS) from Graham Partners
    • in its investment in [solidcore]
    • in its acquisition of a 50% stake in United States Infrastructure Corporation (USIC) from Partners Group for an enterprise value of $4.1 billion
    • in its acquisition of Ob Hospitalist Group from Gryphon Investors
    • acquisition of Myers EPS from Graham Partners
    • acquisition of a majority stake in Parts Authority
    • acquisition, alongside Mubadala Investment Company, of a majority stake in PCI Pharma Services from Partners Group
    • acquisition of Nelipak Corporation from Mason Wells
  • KPS Capital Partners in its acquisition of:
    • the Engineered Materials business from Crane Company
    • the porcelain enamel, glass coatings, forehearth colorants and frit-based metallurgical products businesses of Prince International Corporation
    • TaylorMade Golf Company from adidas AG
  • Lazer Logistics, a portfolio company of EQT, in its acquisition of Hirschbach Motor Lines’ spotting operations
  • Oak Hill Advisors in its $4.2 billion sale to T. Rowe Price Group
  • Relatient, a portfolio company of Brighton Park Capital, in its merger with Radix Health
  • SpecialtyCare, a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Co., in its sale to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners
  • Summit Companies, a portfolio company of CI Capital Partners, in its sale to BlackRock Long Term Private Capital

Public M&A

  • CareFinders Total Care in its $340 million sale to ModivCare Inc.
  • Carrier Global Corporation in the $4.95 billion sale of its global access solutions business to Honeywell
  • Chevron Corporation in its $7.6 billion acquisition of PDC Energy
  • Enstar Group in its $5.1 billion sale to Sixth Street and other institutional investors
  • 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

Restructuring

  • An ad hoc group of secured and unsecured creditors of Digicel Group in its restructuring of over $5.4 billion of debt
  • Affiliates of AR Global in connection with the internalization of management as part of the merger agreement between Global Net Lease and The Necessity Retail REIT
  • An ad hoc group of first lien term loan lenders of QualTek Services in connection with both a prepetition financing transaction and a comprehensive restructuring effected through the company’s prearranged chapter 11 filing
  • An ad hoc group of second lien noteholders of Rite Aid Corporation in connection with its restructuring of $3.4 billion of total funded debt, including $1.05 billion held by the ad hoc group

Capital Markets

  • Alignment Healthcare, a portfolio company of General Atlantic, in:
    • the offering of $193 million of common stock by certain selling shareholders
    • its initial public offering of $549.3 million of common stock
  • Latham Group in its initial public offering of $437 million of common stock

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