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Sector Deal Of The Year - Maadvisor
1
I. SECTOR DEAL OF THE YEAR
HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCES DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $500MM)
Chapter 11 Sale of ATLS Acquisition, LLC, dba
Liberty Medical Supply, Inc. (“Liberty”)
Raymond James
Chipman Brown Cicero & Brown, LLP
Ernst & Young
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Lowenstein Sandler PC
Mesirow Financial Consulting LLC
Palm Beach Capital
RSR Consulting, LLC
Stevens & Lee, P.C
HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCES DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $500MM)
Acquisition of Griffin-American Healthcare
REIT by NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.
Dechert LLP
Griffin-American Healthcare REIT
NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
2
INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION DEAL OF THE YEAR
(FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Acquisition of Zak Incorporated by LAI
International
PCE Investment Bankers
DLA Piper
LAI International
RLJ Equity Partners
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP
Zak Incorporated
INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION DEAL OF THE YEAR
(OVER $100MM TO $500MM)
Sale of Enviro Systems, Inc. to Zodiac
Aerospace
Mesirow Financial
Antares International Partners
Deloitte
Firley, Moran, Freer & Eassa
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Paul Hastings
INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION DEAL OF THE YEAR
(OVER $500MM)
Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of Momentive
Performance Materials
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Alix Partners, LLP
Dechert, LLP
FTI Consulting, Inc.
Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP
KPMG
Lazard Ltd.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadkley & McCloy
Moelis & Company LLC
Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
(In re MPM Silicones, LLC, et al.)
Ropes & Gray LLP
Valuation Research Corporation
Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, LLP
3
RETAIL MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION DEAL OF THE YEAR
Acquisition and Restructuring of The
Wet Seal, Inc. and its debtor affiliates
by Mador Lending, LLC, an affiliate of Versa
Capital Management, LLC
Province, Inc.
FTI
Greenberg Traurig
Houlian
Klehr Harrison
Mador Lending, LLC
Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
The Wet Seal, Inc.
Versa Capital Management, LLC
FINANCIAL SERVICES DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Acquisition of NCB Management Services, Inc.
by NCB Employee Stock Ownership Trust
CSG Partners
NCB
Moore & Van Allen, PLLC
Pepper Hamilton
Stout Risius Ross
FINANCIAL SERVICES DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM)
Acquisition of CompoSecure, LLC, by LLR
Partners
Generational Equity
BDO USA LLC
CompoSecure, LLC
DLA Piper
Drinker Biddle
Friedman LLP
Generational Capital Markets, Inc.
LLR Partners
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (B-TO-B) DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Acquisition of Ariad Communications by High
Road Capital Partners
High Road Capital Partners
Ariad Custom Communication
Babson Capital Management
Blake, Cassels & Graydon
Blue Spire Marketing
Fifth Third Bank
IGS
KPMG
Petsky Prunier
Royal Bank of Canada
Thompson Hine
U.S. Bank
4
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (B-TO-B) DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM)
Acquisition of Controlling Stake in SEKO
Logistics by Greenbriar Equity Group
Raymond James
Greenbriar Equity Group
Horwood Marcus & Berk
SEKO Logistics
TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Sale of 38.04% stake in Systran SA to CSLi Co.,
Ltd
BDA Partners
CSLi
Systran S.A.
TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM TO $250MM)
Divestitures from EMCORE Corporation
(NASDAQ: EMKR)
Raymond James
Ansarada
Citizens Bank RBS
CSP Associates
Deloitte
EMCORE
Hancock Capital Management
KPMG
NeoPhotonics
O’Melveny & Myers
PwC
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Veritas Capital
TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $250MM TO $500MM)
Sale of Rx30 by Benchmark International Benchmark International
Broad and Cassel
Cross Fernandez & Riley
GTCR
Kirkland & Ellis
5
TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $500MM)
Acquisition of TransFirst by Vista Equity Partners
FT Partners
TransFirst
Vista Equity Partners
MEDIA DEAL OF THE YEAR
Merger/Spin-Off of The E.W. Scripps Company
and Journal Communications
BakerHostetler
Evercore Partners Inc.
Methuselah Advisors
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
The E.W. Scripps Company
Wells Fargo Securities
TELECOM DEAL OF THE YEAR
Acquisition of A Wireless by Z Wireless Allegiance Capital Corp.
A Wireless
Morrison Cohen, LLP
Pennant Park
STS Capital Partners
Atlantic Street Capital
ENERGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $1B)
Acquisition of QIC, Inc. by RINA S.p.A. GulfStar Group
QIC
Ewing & Jones, PPLC
Fredericks Michael & Co.
PwC
RINA
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
6
ENERGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $1B)
Merger of Navig8 Crude Tankers and General
Maritime
Seward & Kissel
Navig8
Crude Tankers
General Maritime
INDUSTRIAL GOODS AND BASIC RESOURCES DEAL OF THE YEAR
(FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Turnaround and Sale of LC Manufacturing
O’Keefe
BFC, Inc.
Dold Spath Kiriazis
K&S Forge, Inc./LC Manufacturing
Comerica Bank
INDUSTRIAL GOODS AND BASIC RESOURCES DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM)
Sale of Protective Industries, Inc., a
Windjammer Capital Portfolio Company, to
Berwind Corporation
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Alvarez & Marsal
Berwind Corporation
Dechert LLP
Ernst & Young
Houlihan Lokey Capital
Windjammer Capital Investors
CONSUMER AND RETAIL PRODUCTS DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $500MM)
Acquisition of Wagg Foods by Catterton Catterton
Latham & Watkins LLP
Alvarez & Marsal
Gordons LLP
HSBC Bank plc
Rothschild
Wagg Foods, Ltd.
7
CONSUMER AND RETAIL PRODUCTS DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $500MM)
Acquisition of MOM Brands by Post Holdings Faegre Baker Daniels
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C.
Post Consumer Brands
CONSUMER SERVICES DEAL OF THE YEAR
Acquisition of The RAM Restaurant and Brewery
by The RAM Employee Stock Ownership Trust
CSG Partners
Berntson Porter
Law Offices of Robert E. Lesser
Robinson Brog Leinwand Greene
Genovese & Gluck
The RAM Employee Stock Ownership Trust
(Wilmington Trust)
The RAM Restaurant and Brewery
Washington Trust Bank
REAL ESTATE DEAL OF THE YEAR
Purchase of Veris Gold USA, Inc. assets by
Whitebox Advisors, LLC
Fennemore Craig, P.C.
Dentons Canada, LLP
Dorsey & Whitney, LLP
Ernst & Young
Fasken Martineau
Fox Rothschild LLP
Irwin Lowy, LLP
JCM Holdings III Limited
Whitebox Advisors, LLC
AGRICULTURE DEAL OF THE YEAR
Acquisition of Hesco Inc.
by Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC
Generational Equity
Hesco Inc.
Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC
Horizon Holdings, LLC
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II. FIRM OF THE YEAR
VALUATION FIRM OF THE YEAR
Generational Equity
CONSULTING FIRM OF THE YEAR
PwC
LENDER FIRM OF THE YEAR
Ares Direct Lending
INVESTMENT BANKING FIRM OF THE YEAR
KPMG Corporate Finance LLC
LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
Hirschler Fleischer
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM OF THE YEAR
Watermill Group
BOUTIQUE INVESTMENT BANKING FIRM OF THE YEAR
J.D. Ford & Company
ACCOUNTING/DUE DILIGENCE FIRM OF THE YEAR
RSM
MARKETING/PR FIRM OF THE YEAR
Brunswick Group
9
III. PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
SERVICE PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
Paul Aversano, Managing Director and Global Practice Leader, Alvarez & Marsal
LENDER DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
Glenn T. Kim, Managing Director, Origination, Fifth Street Management, LLC
LEGAL ADVISOR OF THE YEAR, OUTSIDE COUNSEL
Morton Pierce, Partner, White & Case LLP
Oliver Brahmst, Head of Americas Private Equity, White & Case LLP
LEGAL ADVISOR OF THE YEAR, IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
David McCreary, Chief Legal Officer, Generational Equity
INVESTMENT BANKER DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
Steve McLaughlin, Managing Partner, Financial Technology Partners
CORPORATE BUYER / SELLER DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
Colin J. Levere, Senior M&A Lawyer, Scotiabank
PRIVATE EQUITY BUYER / SELLER DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
Jared Ruger, Partner, Bertram Capital Management
10
IV. PRODUCT / SERVICE OF THE YEAR
PRODUCT / SERVICE OF THE YEAR, INFORMATION SERVICES
Merrill DataSite
PRODUCT / SERVICE OF THE YEAR, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Allied World – Representations and Warranties (R&W) Insurance
V. DEAL FINANCING OF THE YEAR
EQUITY FINANCING DEAL OF THE YEAR
Recapitalization of Penn Foster Education Group
by The Vistria Group
Capstone Partners
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Falcon Investment Advisors
Penn Foster Education Group
Sankaty Advisors
The Vistria Group
DEBT FINANCING DEAL OF THE YEAR
Refinancing of AcuSport Corporation by
Huron Transaction Advisory LLC
Huron Transaction Advisory
Huron Business Advisory
Winston & Strawn
Wells Fargo Capital Finance
Goldberg Kohn
Regions Business Capital
RBS Citizens Bank
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VI. RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR
RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Acquisition of Hynes Industries by an
affiliate of Resilience Capital Partners
Resilience Capital Partners
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company
Ernst & Young
Huntington Bank
Hynes Industries
Jones Day
Roth, Blair, Roberts, Strasfeld & Lodge
RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM TO $1B)
Restructuring and Recapitalizing of Berger
Group Holdings, Inc.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP
Abrams Capital
Berger Group Holdings
RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $1B)
Chapter 9 Reorganization of The City of Detroit,
Michigan
Conway MacKenzie, Inc.
City of Detroit
Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC
Ernst & Young
Barclays
Jones Day
Kurtzman Carson Consultants, LLC
Miller Canfield
Pepper Hamilton, LLP
12
VII. CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $25MM)
Acquisition of QIC, Inc. by RINA S.p.A. GulfStar Group
QIC
Ewing & Jones, PPLC
Fredericks Michael & Co.
PwC
RINA
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $25MM TO $100MM)
Investment in Lily’s Kitchen by Catterton
Catterton
Bain
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP
Deloitte
Lily’s Kitchen
Simmons & Simmons
Stamford Partners
Trethowans LLP
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM TO $250MM)
Combination of Northern Lights Capital Group
and Treasury Group Limited
Medley Management, Inc.
Goodwin Procter LLP
Pepper Hamilton LLP
William Blair
Aether Investment Partners, LLC
Clayton Utz
Gresham Advisory Partner Limited
Herbert Smith Freehills
Northern Lights Capital Partners
13
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $250MM TO $500MM)
Acquisition of Recurrent Energy, LLC by
Canadian Solar, Inc.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Canadian Solar Inc.
Recurrent Energy, LLC
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $500MM TO $1B)
Sale of Power Assets in Latin America
White & Case LLP
Power Assets
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $1B)
Merger of Aeroflex Holding Corp.
with Cobham plc
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Aeroflex Holding Corp.
Bank of America
Brunswick Group LLP
Cobham plc
Goldman Sachs
Merril Lynch
Richards, Layton & Finger PA
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
14
VIII. CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION DEAL OF THE YEAR
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(FROM $10MM TO $25MM)
Acquisition of certain subscriber assets from
Sage Telecom by Birch Communications
Redwood Capital Group
Birch Communications, Inc.
Telscape Truconnect
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(OVER $25MM TO $100MM)
Carve-Out of Mobile Mini, Inc. North American
Mobile Office Fleet to Acton Mobile Industries
Prophet Equity
Oppenheimer & Co.
Jackson Walker L.L.P.
PNC Bank
Sprock Capital Advisory
Wells Fargo Capital Finance
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(OVER $100MM TO $250MM)
Acquisition of PAI Group, Inc. (PayChoice) by
Group plc (LSE:SGE)
Raymond James
Deloitte
Goodwin Procter, LLP
Grant Thornton
Great Hill Partners
PayChoice
RW Baird
Sage Software
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
William Blair
15
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(OVER $250MM TO $500MM)
Acquisition of Brunswick Corporation’s Bowling
Business by Bowlmor AMF
Proskauer Rose, LLP
Bowlmor AMF
Sidley Austin LLP
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(OVER $500MM TO $1B)
Sale of GFI Group, Inc. to BGC Partners
White & Case, LLP
BGC Partners
GFI Group, Inc.
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(OVER $1B)
Merger of Aeroflex Holding Corp.
with Cobham plc
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Aeroflex Holding Corp.
Bank of America
Brunswick Group, LLP
Cobham plc
Goldman, Sachs
Merril Lynch
Richards, Layton & Finger, PA
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
16
IX. M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $25MM)
Acquisition of Nelson Pipeline by Beirne Pipeline
Holdings partnered with Axis Private Equity
Headwaters MB
Ahmann Martin
Axis Private Equity
Bauerle & Co
Beirne Pipeline Holdings
First Western Trust
Fox Rothschild LLP
Navigator Partners
Nelson Pipeline Constructors, Inc.
Polsinelli
White Oak Global Advisor
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $25MM TO $50MM)
Acquisition of Amtech Corporation by Blackford
Capital
Blackford Capital
McClarin Plastics
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $50MM TO $75MM)
Acquisition of Master Cutlery by Champlain
Capital
Capstone Partners
Champlain Capital
Kho & Patel CPA
Master Cutlery
Meister Seelig & Fein LLP
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $75MM TO $100MM)
Majority Investment in Trax Technologies
by Strattam Capital
Strattam Capital
Capital Southwest Corporation
Partners for Growth
River Cities Capital Funds Silicon
Valley Bank
Trax Technologies
William Blair
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
17
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM TO $250MM)
Sale of The Flexan Corporation to Linden Capital
Partners
Mesirow Financial
Ernst & Young
Golub Capital
Intralinks
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC
Linden Capital
Partners Plante Moran
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $250MM TO $500MM)
Employee Acquisition of Nation Safe Drivers
Butcher Joseph & Co
Medley Management, Inc.
Northport Capital, LLC. a Resource
America, Inc. Company
NSD Holdings, Inc.
Alcentra Capital Corporation
BankUnited NA
Fifth Third Bank
Keefe McCullough CPA’s + Trusted Advisors
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Nation Safe Drivers
Proskauer Rose LLP
Stout Risius Ross, Inc.
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $500MM TO $1B)
Merger/Spin-Off of The E.W. Scripps Company
and Journal Communications
BakerHostetler
Evercore Partners, Inc.
Methuselah Advisors
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP
The E.W. Scripps Company
Wells Fargo Securities
18
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $1B TO $5B)
Acquisition of Susquehanna Bancshares by BB&T
Corp.
Keefe Bruyette & Woods
BB&T Corporation
Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP
Susquehanna Bancshares
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $5B)
Restructuring of ITR Concession Co. LLC
(Indiana Toll Road) and Sale to IFM Investors
UBS Investment Bank
KPMG Corporate Finance LLC
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
Barnes & Thornburg, LLP
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Macquarie
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, LLP
Moelis
Taft Stettinuis & Hollister LLP
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Sector Deal Of The Year - Maadvisor
1
I. SECTOR DEAL OF THE YEAR
HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCES DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $500MM)
Chapter 11 Sale of ATLS Acquisition, LLC, dba
Liberty Medical Supply, Inc. (“Liberty”)
Raymond James
Chipman Brown Cicero & Brown, LLP
Ernst & Young
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Lowenstein Sandler PC
Mesirow Financial Consulting LLC
Palm Beach Capital
RSR Consulting, LLC
Stevens & Lee, P.C
HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCES DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $500MM)
Acquisition of Griffin-American Healthcare
REIT by NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.
Dechert LLP
Griffin-American Healthcare REIT
NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
2
INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION DEAL OF THE YEAR
(FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Acquisition of Zak Incorporated by LAI
International
PCE Investment Bankers
DLA Piper
LAI International
RLJ Equity Partners
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP
Zak Incorporated
INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION DEAL OF THE YEAR
(OVER $100MM TO $500MM)
Sale of Enviro Systems, Inc. to Zodiac
Aerospace
Mesirow Financial
Antares International Partners
Deloitte
Firley, Moran, Freer & Eassa
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Paul Hastings
INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION DEAL OF THE YEAR
(OVER $500MM)
Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of Momentive
Performance Materials
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Alix Partners, LLP
Dechert, LLP
FTI Consulting, Inc.
Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP
KPMG
Lazard Ltd.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadkley & McCloy
Moelis & Company LLC
Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
(In re MPM Silicones, LLC, et al.)
Ropes & Gray LLP
Valuation Research Corporation
Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, LLP
3
RETAIL MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION DEAL OF THE YEAR
Acquisition and Restructuring of The
Wet Seal, Inc. and its debtor affiliates
by Mador Lending, LLC, an affiliate of Versa
Capital Management, LLC
Province, Inc.
FTI
Greenberg Traurig
Houlian
Klehr Harrison
Mador Lending, LLC
Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
The Wet Seal, Inc.
Versa Capital Management, LLC
FINANCIAL SERVICES DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Acquisition of NCB Management Services, Inc.
by NCB Employee Stock Ownership Trust
CSG Partners
NCB
Moore & Van Allen, PLLC
Pepper Hamilton
Stout Risius Ross
FINANCIAL SERVICES DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM)
Acquisition of CompoSecure, LLC, by LLR
Partners
Generational Equity
BDO USA LLC
CompoSecure, LLC
DLA Piper
Drinker Biddle
Friedman LLP
Generational Capital Markets, Inc.
LLR Partners
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (B-TO-B) DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Acquisition of Ariad Communications by High
Road Capital Partners
High Road Capital Partners
Ariad Custom Communication
Babson Capital Management
Blake, Cassels & Graydon
Blue Spire Marketing
Fifth Third Bank
IGS
KPMG
Petsky Prunier
Royal Bank of Canada
Thompson Hine
U.S. Bank
4
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (B-TO-B) DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM)
Acquisition of Controlling Stake in SEKO
Logistics by Greenbriar Equity Group
Raymond James
Greenbriar Equity Group
Horwood Marcus & Berk
SEKO Logistics
TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Sale of 38.04% stake in Systran SA to CSLi Co.,
Ltd
BDA Partners
CSLi
Systran S.A.
TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM TO $250MM)
Divestitures from EMCORE Corporation
(NASDAQ: EMKR)
Raymond James
Ansarada
Citizens Bank RBS
CSP Associates
Deloitte
EMCORE
Hancock Capital Management
KPMG
NeoPhotonics
O’Melveny & Myers
PwC
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Veritas Capital
TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $250MM TO $500MM)
Sale of Rx30 by Benchmark International Benchmark International
Broad and Cassel
Cross Fernandez & Riley
GTCR
Kirkland & Ellis
5
TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $500MM)
Acquisition of TransFirst by Vista Equity Partners
FT Partners
TransFirst
Vista Equity Partners
MEDIA DEAL OF THE YEAR
Merger/Spin-Off of The E.W. Scripps Company
and Journal Communications
BakerHostetler
Evercore Partners Inc.
Methuselah Advisors
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
The E.W. Scripps Company
Wells Fargo Securities
TELECOM DEAL OF THE YEAR
Acquisition of A Wireless by Z Wireless Allegiance Capital Corp.
A Wireless
Morrison Cohen, LLP
Pennant Park
STS Capital Partners
Atlantic Street Capital
ENERGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $1B)
Acquisition of QIC, Inc. by RINA S.p.A. GulfStar Group
QIC
Ewing & Jones, PPLC
Fredericks Michael & Co.
PwC
RINA
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
6
ENERGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $1B)
Merger of Navig8 Crude Tankers and General
Maritime
Seward & Kissel
Navig8
Crude Tankers
General Maritime
INDUSTRIAL GOODS AND BASIC RESOURCES DEAL OF THE YEAR
(FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Turnaround and Sale of LC Manufacturing
O’Keefe
BFC, Inc.
Dold Spath Kiriazis
K&S Forge, Inc./LC Manufacturing
Comerica Bank
INDUSTRIAL GOODS AND BASIC RESOURCES DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM)
Sale of Protective Industries, Inc., a
Windjammer Capital Portfolio Company, to
Berwind Corporation
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Alvarez & Marsal
Berwind Corporation
Dechert LLP
Ernst & Young
Houlihan Lokey Capital
Windjammer Capital Investors
CONSUMER AND RETAIL PRODUCTS DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $500MM)
Acquisition of Wagg Foods by Catterton Catterton
Latham & Watkins LLP
Alvarez & Marsal
Gordons LLP
HSBC Bank plc
Rothschild
Wagg Foods, Ltd.
7
CONSUMER AND RETAIL PRODUCTS DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $500MM)
Acquisition of MOM Brands by Post Holdings Faegre Baker Daniels
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C.
Post Consumer Brands
CONSUMER SERVICES DEAL OF THE YEAR
Acquisition of The RAM Restaurant and Brewery
by The RAM Employee Stock Ownership Trust
CSG Partners
Berntson Porter
Law Offices of Robert E. Lesser
Robinson Brog Leinwand Greene
Genovese & Gluck
The RAM Employee Stock Ownership Trust
(Wilmington Trust)
The RAM Restaurant and Brewery
Washington Trust Bank
REAL ESTATE DEAL OF THE YEAR
Purchase of Veris Gold USA, Inc. assets by
Whitebox Advisors, LLC
Fennemore Craig, P.C.
Dentons Canada, LLP
Dorsey & Whitney, LLP
Ernst & Young
Fasken Martineau
Fox Rothschild LLP
Irwin Lowy, LLP
JCM Holdings III Limited
Whitebox Advisors, LLC
AGRICULTURE DEAL OF THE YEAR
Acquisition of Hesco Inc.
by Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC
Generational Equity
Hesco Inc.
Healthy Food Ingredients, LLC
Horizon Holdings, LLC
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II. FIRM OF THE YEAR
VALUATION FIRM OF THE YEAR
Generational Equity
CONSULTING FIRM OF THE YEAR
PwC
LENDER FIRM OF THE YEAR
Ares Direct Lending
INVESTMENT BANKING FIRM OF THE YEAR
KPMG Corporate Finance LLC
LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR
Hirschler Fleischer
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM OF THE YEAR
Watermill Group
BOUTIQUE INVESTMENT BANKING FIRM OF THE YEAR
J.D. Ford & Company
ACCOUNTING/DUE DILIGENCE FIRM OF THE YEAR
RSM
MARKETING/PR FIRM OF THE YEAR
Brunswick Group
9
III. PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
SERVICE PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
Paul Aversano, Managing Director and Global Practice Leader, Alvarez & Marsal
LENDER DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
Glenn T. Kim, Managing Director, Origination, Fifth Street Management, LLC
LEGAL ADVISOR OF THE YEAR, OUTSIDE COUNSEL
Morton Pierce, Partner, White & Case LLP
Oliver Brahmst, Head of Americas Private Equity, White & Case LLP
LEGAL ADVISOR OF THE YEAR, IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
David McCreary, Chief Legal Officer, Generational Equity
INVESTMENT BANKER DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
Steve McLaughlin, Managing Partner, Financial Technology Partners
CORPORATE BUYER / SELLER DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
Colin J. Levere, Senior M&A Lawyer, Scotiabank
PRIVATE EQUITY BUYER / SELLER DEALMAKER OF THE YEAR
Jared Ruger, Partner, Bertram Capital Management
10
IV. PRODUCT / SERVICE OF THE YEAR
PRODUCT / SERVICE OF THE YEAR, INFORMATION SERVICES
Merrill DataSite
PRODUCT / SERVICE OF THE YEAR, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Allied World – Representations and Warranties (R&W) Insurance
V. DEAL FINANCING OF THE YEAR
EQUITY FINANCING DEAL OF THE YEAR
Recapitalization of Penn Foster Education Group
by The Vistria Group
Capstone Partners
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Falcon Investment Advisors
Penn Foster Education Group
Sankaty Advisors
The Vistria Group
DEBT FINANCING DEAL OF THE YEAR
Refinancing of AcuSport Corporation by
Huron Transaction Advisory LLC
Huron Transaction Advisory
Huron Business Advisory
Winston & Strawn
Wells Fargo Capital Finance
Goldberg Kohn
Regions Business Capital
RBS Citizens Bank
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VI. RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR
RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $100MM)
Acquisition of Hynes Industries by an
affiliate of Resilience Capital Partners
Resilience Capital Partners
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company
Ernst & Young
Huntington Bank
Hynes Industries
Jones Day
Roth, Blair, Roberts, Strasfeld & Lodge
RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM TO $1B)
Restructuring and Recapitalizing of Berger
Group Holdings, Inc.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP
Abrams Capital
Berger Group Holdings
RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $1B)
Chapter 9 Reorganization of The City of Detroit,
Michigan
Conway MacKenzie, Inc.
City of Detroit
Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC
Ernst & Young
Barclays
Jones Day
Kurtzman Carson Consultants, LLC
Miller Canfield
Pepper Hamilton, LLP
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VII. CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $25MM)
Acquisition of QIC, Inc. by RINA S.p.A. GulfStar Group
QIC
Ewing & Jones, PPLC
Fredericks Michael & Co.
PwC
RINA
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $25MM TO $100MM)
Investment in Lily’s Kitchen by Catterton
Catterton
Bain
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP
Deloitte
Lily’s Kitchen
Simmons & Simmons
Stamford Partners
Trethowans LLP
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM TO $250MM)
Combination of Northern Lights Capital Group
and Treasury Group Limited
Medley Management, Inc.
Goodwin Procter LLP
Pepper Hamilton LLP
William Blair
Aether Investment Partners, LLC
Clayton Utz
Gresham Advisory Partner Limited
Herbert Smith Freehills
Northern Lights Capital Partners
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CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $250MM TO $500MM)
Acquisition of Recurrent Energy, LLC by
Canadian Solar, Inc.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Canadian Solar Inc.
Recurrent Energy, LLC
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $500MM TO $1B)
Sale of Power Assets in Latin America
White & Case LLP
Power Assets
CROSS-BORDER DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $1B)
Merger of Aeroflex Holding Corp.
with Cobham plc
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Aeroflex Holding Corp.
Bank of America
Brunswick Group LLP
Cobham plc
Goldman Sachs
Merril Lynch
Richards, Layton & Finger PA
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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VIII. CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION DEAL OF THE YEAR
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(FROM $10MM TO $25MM)
Acquisition of certain subscriber assets from
Sage Telecom by Birch Communications
Redwood Capital Group
Birch Communications, Inc.
Telscape Truconnect
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(OVER $25MM TO $100MM)
Carve-Out of Mobile Mini, Inc. North American
Mobile Office Fleet to Acton Mobile Industries
Prophet Equity
Oppenheimer & Co.
Jackson Walker L.L.P.
PNC Bank
Sprock Capital Advisory
Wells Fargo Capital Finance
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(OVER $100MM TO $250MM)
Acquisition of PAI Group, Inc. (PayChoice) by
Group plc (LSE:SGE)
Raymond James
Deloitte
Goodwin Procter, LLP
Grant Thornton
Great Hill Partners
PayChoice
RW Baird
Sage Software
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
William Blair
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CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(OVER $250MM TO $500MM)
Acquisition of Brunswick Corporation’s Bowling
Business by Bowlmor AMF
Proskauer Rose, LLP
Bowlmor AMF
Sidley Austin LLP
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(OVER $500MM TO $1B)
Sale of GFI Group, Inc. to BGC Partners
White & Case, LLP
BGC Partners
GFI Group, Inc.
CORPORATE AND STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF THE YEAR
(OVER $1B)
Merger of Aeroflex Holding Corp.
with Cobham plc
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Aeroflex Holding Corp.
Bank of America
Brunswick Group, LLP
Cobham plc
Goldman, Sachs
Merril Lynch
Richards, Layton & Finger, PA
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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IX. M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (FROM $10MM TO $25MM)
Acquisition of Nelson Pipeline by Beirne Pipeline
Holdings partnered with Axis Private Equity
Headwaters MB
Ahmann Martin
Axis Private Equity
Bauerle & Co
Beirne Pipeline Holdings
First Western Trust
Fox Rothschild LLP
Navigator Partners
Nelson Pipeline Constructors, Inc.
Polsinelli
White Oak Global Advisor
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $25MM TO $50MM)
Acquisition of Amtech Corporation by Blackford
Capital
Blackford Capital
McClarin Plastics
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $50MM TO $75MM)
Acquisition of Master Cutlery by Champlain
Capital
Capstone Partners
Champlain Capital
Kho & Patel CPA
Master Cutlery
Meister Seelig & Fein LLP
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $75MM TO $100MM)
Majority Investment in Trax Technologies
by Strattam Capital
Strattam Capital
Capital Southwest Corporation
Partners for Growth
River Cities Capital Funds Silicon
Valley Bank
Trax Technologies
William Blair
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
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M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM TO $250MM)
Sale of The Flexan Corporation to Linden Capital
Partners
Mesirow Financial
Ernst & Young
Golub Capital
Intralinks
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC
Linden Capital
Partners Plante Moran
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $250MM TO $500MM)
Employee Acquisition of Nation Safe Drivers
Butcher Joseph & Co
Medley Management, Inc.
Northport Capital, LLC. a Resource
America, Inc. Company
NSD Holdings, Inc.
Alcentra Capital Corporation
BankUnited NA
Fifth Third Bank
Keefe McCullough CPA’s + Trusted Advisors
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Nation Safe Drivers
Proskauer Rose LLP
Stout Risius Ross, Inc.
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $500MM TO $1B)
Merger/Spin-Off of The E.W. Scripps Company
and Journal Communications
BakerHostetler
Evercore Partners, Inc.
Methuselah Advisors
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP
The E.W. Scripps Company
Wells Fargo Securities
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M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $1B TO $5B)
Acquisition of Susquehanna Bancshares by BB&T
Corp.
Keefe Bruyette & Woods
BB&T Corporation
Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP
Susquehanna Bancshares
M&A DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $5B)
Restructuring of ITR Concession Co. LLC
(Indiana Toll Road) and Sale to IFM Investors
UBS Investment Bank
KPMG Corporate Finance LLC
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
Barnes & Thornburg, LLP
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Macquarie
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, LLP
Moelis
Taft Stettinuis & Hollister LLP
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