Connie represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies along with other private companies in connection with buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, restructurings, growth investments and other investments, including control and non-control investments and co-investments.
Connie has experience with domestic as well as crossborder transactions in a wide range of industries and sectors. She also regularly counsels clients on corporate governance and general corporate matters in addition to representing clients with respect to a wide variety of other transactional matters such as supply and distribution agreements.
Connie also advises clients on regulatory matters related to their mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures with respect to Hart Scott Rodino filings and CFIUS compliance.
Representative Experience
- Represented Wilderness Trail Distillery, a premium artisan bourbon distillery, in the sale of 70% of its membership interests to Campari, a Milan-based Italian Spirits group, for $600 million in enterprise value.
- Represented a private equity owned platform company in its strategic add-on acquisition.
- Represented a private equity fund in its acquisition of a new platform company focusing on same day courier services and supply chain logistics solutions.
- Represented a company in amending and restating its senior credit facility with Goldman Sachs and a junior subordinate credit facility.
- Represented the seller in a $600 million sale of a financial services technology company to a public company strategic acquirer after an auction process.
- Represented the seller in a sale of a mutual funds business to an Australian public company.
- Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a non-asset based third-party, final mile logistics firm.
- Represented private equity fund in its sale of leading end-to-end provider of technology solutions for education to private equity owned technology company.
- Represented buyer in its acquisition of a national, full-service logistics business focused primarily on courier, warehouse management and distribution services.
- Represented seller of an international package delivery company to a buyer being invested in by an internationally traded public company.
- Represented a private equity firm in obtaining a $57 million chemical additives company and a related $31 million credit facility administered by Bank of Ireland.
