Private Equity M&A: Chapman and Cutler LLP

Overview

Chapman’s Special Situations and Restructuring team represents purchasers and sellers in all forms of M&A transactions, including stock and asset purchases and M&A joint ventures.

Representative Matters

Counsel to Clairvest Group Inc. and Rubico Gaming LLC in a joint venture to acquire the Delaware Park casino and racetrack in Wilmington and in connection with the financing of such transaction.
Counsel to Clairvest Group Inc. in the purchase of an equity interest in video gaming company Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Counsel to Spectacle Entertainment, majority partner in a joint venture, in connection with the acquisition of the Majestic Star riverboat casinos and, later, the financing and development of the Hard Rock Northern Indiana Casino in Gary.
Counsel to Centaur Holdings, LLC in connection with its acquisitions of two casinos and horse racing tracks (racinos) located in Indiana pursuant to a chapter 11 plan of reorganization and a section 363 sale, and followed by, years later, the sale of the two racinos to Caesars Entertainment for $1.7 billion.
Counsel to a commercial bank in its $1.5 billion acquisition of a portfolio of health care equipment leases and loans involving 1,100 hospitals and 3,600 physician practices and diagnostic and imaging centers across the US. The transaction included a five-year vendor finance program agreement.
Counsel to an Israeli financial institution in connection with the purchase of US marketplace loans.
Counsel to the purchaser in the acquisition of a minority equity interest in US owner/operator of gas stations and convenience stores located across the east coast of the US from an insolvent Israeli public company pursuant to a court-supervised process.
Counsel to a Connecticut-based private equity fund in the restructuring of the debt, and eventual sale, of stock of a portfolio company.
Counsel to a commercial finance company based in Toronto in connection with a series of transactions to sell rail assets.
Counsel to a New York private equity sponsor in the purchase of a precision injection molding company with operations in the US, UK, and China.
Counsel to a New York hedge fund in connection with the sale of a Mexico-based trailer manufacturing company.
Counsel to a private investment firm in the acquisition of a supplier of high-precision metal components.
Counsel to a private investment firm in the acquisition of a commercial vehicle suspension component supplier.
Counsel to a private fund in the acquisition of a leading producer of fresh and processed pork and turkey products.
Counsel to a private fund in its investment in a structural steel fabrication business.
Counsel to a private fund in the acquisition of a global manufacturer of complex assembled components and finished products servicing the datacenter, automotive, energy and industrial markets.
Counsel to a private fund in connection with its investment in a company organized to purchase receivables of a state government.
Counsel to a private fund in the acquisition of subordinated secured notes of aircraft holdings company.
Counsel to a mezzanine lender of its purchase of a securitized senior loan to a residential real estate complex.
Counsel to a private fund in the acquisition and subsequent SPAC sale of a private music label.