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Erik G. Knudsen

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Erik Knudsen is a corporate partner and serves as co-chair of the firm's global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. 

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Advised AccentCare’s management team in the sale of AccentCare from Oak Hill Capital to Advent International.

AccentCare

Advised Alpine Investors in multiple transactions including its acquisition of Wilson Language Learning.

Alpine Investors

Advised Avalign Technologies and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in leveraged buyouts of Advantis Medical, Nemcomed, and NGInstruments.

Avalign Technologies and RoundTable Healthcare Partners

Advised Bain Capital in the sale of FCI Burndy to Hubbell.

Bain Capital

Advised Bioniche Pharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in various product acquisitions and development projects.

Bioniche Pharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners

Advised BlackBerry in its $1.4 billion acquisition and subsequent sale of Cylance.

BlackBerry

Advised Bow River Capital’s Software Growth Equity Fund in multiple transactions, including its majority investments in Product Plan and Accelo and its acquisition of RippleWorx.

Bow River Capital

Advised California Cryobank in its acquisition of Donor Egg Bank and its sale to GI Partners.

California Cryobank

Advised Ciber in multiple transactions, including sale of Infor practice to Infor and the 363 sale of U.S. and Indian businesses to HTC Global.

Ciber

Advised a consortium of investors (including CVCI and ABN AMRO) in the sale of Mobiltel to Telekom Austria.

Consortium of investors

Advised Copain Wines in the sale to Jackson Family Wines.

Copain Wines

Advised CorePharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners in product acquisitions from GlaxoSmithKline.

CorePharma and RoundTable Healthcare Partners

Advised Digicert’s management team in the sale of Digicert to Clearlake Capital and TA Associates.

DigiCert

Advised Divvy in its $2.5 billion sale to Bill.com

Divvy

Advised Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc. in its operating subsidiaries and affiliates in multiple transactions, including the acquisitions of Horizon Eye Specialists, Emergency Physicians Medical Group, Northwest Tucson Emergency Physicians, Questcare Medical Services, Emergency Medical Associates of New Jersey, Scottsdale Emergency Associates, Phoenix Physicians, Life Line Ambulance Service, and Guardian Healthcare Group.

Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc.

Advised Excellere Partners in multiple transactions, including its investment in Concord Technologies.

Excellere Partners

Advised Flying J in various asset sales in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization.

Flying J

Advised Francisco Partners in the leveraged buyout of Ichor Systems.

Francisco Partners

Advised GKN in the acquisition of Teleflex Aerospace Manufacturing Group.

GKN

Advised GLP Pte. Ltd. in multiple transactions, including the acquisition of a $4.55 billion U.S. logistics portfolio from Industrial Income Trust.

GLP Pte. Ltd.

Advised GREE International, the Western arm of GREE, in the acquisition of DragonSoul, the critically acclaimed mobile role-playing game (RPG) developed by PerBlue, and in sale of War of Nations to RockYou.

GREE International

Advised Greenlane Holdings in its acquisitions of DaVinci and Eyce, and its merger with KushCo.

Greenlane Holdings

Advised GTCR and Deviocor Medical Products in the leveraged buyout of Breast Care Business of Ethicon Endo-Surgery.

GTCR and Devicor Medical Products

Advised Health Evolution Partners in the leveraged buyout of Freedom Innovations.

Health Evolution Partners

Advised Huck Capital in its partnership with Schneider Electric.

Huck Capital

Advised IDIQ in its sale of 51% of IDIQ to affiliates of Corsair Capital.

IDIQ

Advised Industrial Growth Partners in the sale of O’Brien Corp to Ametek.

Industrial Growth Partners

Advised Longitude Capital and NovaQuest Capital in the leveraged buyout of California Cryobank.

Longitude Capital and NovaQuest Capital

Advised NerdWallet in its acquisition of Fundera.

NerdWallet

Advised Odyssey Investment Partners and its management in the sale of Norcross Safety Products to Honeywell.

Odyssey Investment Partners

Advised Olympus Partners in multiple transactions, including the equity and subordinated debt investment in Atlas Industrial Services and leveraged buyout of Norwesco.

Olympus Partners

Advised onsemi (Nasdaq: ONNN) in multiple transactions, including in the acquisition of the East Fishkill Facility from Global Foundries, the acquisitions of Aptina Imaging and GT Advanced Technologies, the divestiture of the Ignition IGBT Business, and the sale of the Transient Voltage Suppressor and Thyristor Business to Littelfuse, Inc.

Onsemi

Advised OWP/P in the merger with Cannon Design.

OWP/P

Advised Rothschild & Co. in its agreement to sell two asset management units to Wintrust Financial Corporation’s subsidiary Great Lakes Advisors, LLC.

Rothschild & Co.

Advised RoundTable Healthcare Partners in multiple transactions, including the leveraged buyout of Aqua Pharmaceuticals, the sale of Bioniche Pharma to Mylan, and the sale of MedAssist to Firstsource.

RoundTable Healthcare Partners

Advised Rubicon Technology Partners in multiple transactions, including its strategic majority investments in EverTrue and ThankView and merger thereof, its strategic majority investments in Enquire, Glennis Solutions and Sherpa CRM and merger thereof.

Rubicon Technology Partners

Advised Sensata Technologies in the acquisition of Honeywell’s “Automotive on Board” sensors business.

Sensata Technologies

Advised Silver Lake Sumeru in multiple transactions, including the equity investment in Opera Solutions and sale of i2 Holdings Limited to IBM.

Silver Lake Sumeru

Advised SoftBank in multiple transactions, including the initial $1.26 billion acquisition of a controlling interest in Miami-based Brightstar Corp. and a subsequent second-step transaction to acquire the remaining outstanding interests, the establishment of GreenBox Systems LLC, a new joint venture with Symbotic Inc. (Nasdaq: SYM) to offer the first-of-its-kind automated warehouse services, and the formation of a 50/50 joint venture with Tempus AI focused on the business of performing clinical sequencing in Japan.

SoftBank

Advised Tomkins Ltd. in multiple transactions, including the sale of Dexter Axle to Sterling Partners and in sale of Aquatic U.S. Holdings to Sterling Partners.

Tomkins Ltd.

Advised Unity Technologies in its acquisition of Obvioos.

Unity Technologies

Advised Vector Capital in the leveraged buyout of Motorola Solutions’ Point-to-Point and Point‑to‑Multipoint Wireless Broadband Networks businesses.

Vector Capital

Advised Versa Capital in the acquisition of assets of InPhonic.

Versa Capital

Advised Westfire in the sale to Tyco SimplexGrinnell.

Westfire

Advised Windjammer Capital in the leveraged buyout of JWC Environmental.

Windjammer Capital

Advised York Capital and JMA Ventures in the buyout of the Bay Club Co.

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Ranked practice: M&A / Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts

Private Equity Practice Group of the Year

Individual recommended for M&A / Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1BN+)

Individual recommended for M&A / Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts

Ranked practice: M&A / Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts

Private Equity Practice Group of the Year

Individual recommended for M&A / Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1BN+)

Individual recommended for M&A / Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts

Ranked practice: M&A / Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts

Private Equity Practice Group of the Year