Our experience covers the entire private equity spectrum, including fund formation and marketing, structuring and making equity investments, negotiating bridge, high-yield and senior debt financing for portfolio companies, structuring management compensation programs, making follow-on investments, executing recapitalization transactions, disposing of investments through private or public sales, making in-kind distributions and negotiating workouts. This vast experience gives us a deep understanding of evolving trends within the marketplace.

• We advised Metalmark Capital, a private equity firm that advises its own funds and the Morgan Stanley Capital Partners funds, on the $550 million sale of Tegrant, a DeKalb, Illinois-based retail packaging manufacturer, to Sonoco Products, a Hartsville, South Carolina-based manufacturer of industrial and consumer products.
  
  
  
• We advised GP Investments, a leader in private equity in Latin America, on its $400 million sale of Fogo de Chão Churrascaria, a Brazilian steakhouse in the United States and Brazil, to Thomas H. Lee Partners.
  
  
• We advised GS Capital Partners on its $292 million minority investment in Enstar Group, a Bermudan insurance and reinsurance company, and minority investment in Plastipak, a privately held Michigan-based company and global manufacturer of plastic packaging containers and preforms..
  
  
  
• We are advising Crestview Partners on its $246 million acquisition of Victory Capital Management, an investment advisory firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, from KeyCorp, one of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies.