• Various U.S. public companies in connection with their ongoing periodic reporting obligations (e.g., 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, Form 4s, Conflict Minerals Reports) and the preparation of their annual meeting proxy statements.
    • Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK), a leading supplier of beverage, food and aerosol packaging, metal closures, specialty packaging products and transit and protective packaging products, equipment and services:
      • In its approximately US$3.9 billion acquisition of Signode Industrial Group Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. from the Carlyle Group;
      • In its pending €1.9 billion sale of its EMEA tinplate business to an affiliate of KPS Capital Partners LP; and
      • In various of its Rule 144A and Regulation S senior notes offerings and corporate restructuring transactions.
    • LF Acquisition Corp. (formerly Nasdaq: LFAC, now Nasdaq: LSEA), a SPAC, in its de SPAC-ing business combination with Landsea Homes Incorporated.
    • StoneCastle Asset Management and its parent StoneCastle Partners LLC in its sale of StoneCastle Asset Management’s Bank Investment Platform to ArrowMark Partners.
    • FS Investments, a leading alternative investment manager:
      • In connection with its partnership with KKR, a leading global investment firm, to create the largest business development company (BDC) platform, with US$18 billion in combined assets under management.
      • As FS KKR Capital Corp. (NYSE: FSK), following the FS-KKR merger, in connection with a recent senior notes offering.
    • Blackboard Inc., a leading global educational software company and an affiliate of Providence Equity Partners, in the sale of its Blackboard Transact business unit to Reverence Capital Partners, LP.
    • Actua Corporation (formerly Nasdaq: ACTA) in its approximately US$549 million sale of its three majority-owned businesses to affiliates of CVC Growth Fund and Envestnet, Inc. and its subsequent delisting and dissolution.
    • The senior management team at CoreVest American Finance Lender, a specialty finance company that provides private debt to residential real estate investors, in connection with the US$490 million sale of CoreVest by Fortress Investment Group to Redwood Trust.
    • French chemicals group Arkema in connection with its acquisition of Fixatti, the Swiss-Belgian group that specializes in producing high-performance thermobonding adhesive powders; and through its subsidiary Bostik, the acquisition of Prochimir SAS (and its US subsidiary), a developer and the producer of high performance thermobonding adhesive films for industrial companies.
    • An affiliate of a sovereign wealth fund in connection with its investment in a private software company.
    • Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTG) in connection with its strategic partnership with Starboard Value, consisting of a financing providing Acacia with access to up to US$400 million of new capital for strategic investments and acquisitions.
    • B&G Foods, Inc. (NYSE: BGS) in its US$420 million sale of its Pirate Brands business to The Hershey Company.
    • Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP, as underwriter, in connection with a negotiated loan arrangement with Trinity Place Holdings Inc.
    • An affiliate of Quilvest Private Equity in the sale of Small Tube Products, a leading U.S. redrawer of niche, small diameter copper and aluminum tubes, to Waybill.
    • A private hydraulic and industrial hose company in its acquisition by a private equity firm.
    • Resource America, Inc. in connection with its joint venture with Pearlmark Real Estate.
    • A US private equity firm in its acquisition of a British water utility company.
    • FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) in the sale of its Health and Nutrition business to DowDuPont in exchange for portions of DuPont’s global crop protection business, which were divested as a condition of DuPont’s merger with Dow.
    • CDI Corporation (formerly NYSE: CDI) in its US$8.25 per share sale acquisition by affiliates of AE Industrial Partners, LLC.
    • Graham Partners in its acquisition of Mercer Foods, a manufacturer of high quality freeze-dried fruits, vegetables, and proteins.