Leo Greenberg is a corporate partner in Kirkland's New York office. Leo serves as counsel to large and middle market buyout funds and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, growth capital investments, joint ventures, debt and equity financings, corporate restructurings and workouts. Leo has broad experience counseling clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare, media, technology, consumer products, manufacturing, financial services, logistics/transportation services, oil and gas services and retail.
Leo is listed in the 2013 edition of Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business as a "rising star" whose clients describe him as "commercial, extremely hard-working and extremely relationship-focused."
Representative Matters
Select Acquisitions & Divestitures
- Apax Partners and Hub International Limited in the pending $4.4 billion sale of Hub to funds advised by Hellman & Friedman LLC.
- The Blackstone Group in its approximately $26 billion acquisition proposal for Dell Inc.
- TowerBrook Capital Partners in its sales of Rave Cinemas and the St. Louis Blues Hockey Club.
- Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. in its leveraged acquisitions of Gamo Outdoor, S.L., a Barcelona-based manufacturer of premium airguns, and Royal Robbins, a designer, manufacturer, marketer and retailer of outdoor and travel apparel.
- Palladium Equity Partners in its sale of Wise Foods, a well-known brand and maker of salty snacks.
- TowerBrook Capital Partners in various leveraged acquisitions of portfolio companies ranging from $100 million to $500 million, including its acquisition of Vistage International, a CEO membership organization, and HD Supply's IPVF business.
- Apax Partners and Spyder Active Sports in the sale of Spyder to Authentic Brands Group.
- Apax Partners in its $1 billion leveraged acquisition of Paradigm Geophysical, an E&P subsurface software solution provider.
- Apax Partners in its $1.2 billion sale of Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer and distributor.
- Apax Partners in its $2 billion dual leveraged acquisition of Epicor Software Corporation (effectuated by public tender offer) and Activant Group Inc., software solution providers.
- Epicor Software Corporation, a portfolio company of Apax Partners, in its acquisition of Solarsoft, a software solution provider.
- Bankrate, Inc., a portfolio company of Apax Partners, in its $350 million leveraged acquisitions of NetQuote, Inc and Credit Cards, Inc., providers of insurance and credit card leads.
- Zelnick Media in its leveraged acquisition of Cannella Response Television Inc. and affiliates, a direct response television media supplier.
- Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. in its sale of Seroyal International, a dietary supplement distributor, and its sale of Wilson Farms, a convenience store chain.
Select Equity Investments
- Zelnick Media in its minority equity investments in Airvana Corp., a femtocell solutions provider, and Tekelec, Inc., a telecommunications hardware and software producer.
- Alothon Group in various equity co-investments in Brazilian operating companies.
- 3i Group in its minority equity investment in Quintiles Transnational Corp., a provider of pharmaceutical clinical trial services.
- CVC Capital Partners in its purchase of 50% of the equity interests of Pilot Travel Centers LLC, a travel center owner and operator.
Select Recapitalization Transactions
- Wise Foods, a portfolio company of Palladium Equity Partners, in its 2012 debt recapitalization.
- Cannella Response Television, a portfolio company of Zelnick Media and Palladium Equity Partners, in its 2011 debt recapitalization.
- Spyder Active Sports, a portfolio company of Apax Partners, in its 2010 equity and debt recapitalization.
- Airxcel Inc., a portfolio company of Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co., in its 2011 equity and debt recapitalization.
Select Private Funds
- Avista Capital Partners in the formation of its various managed private equity funds.
- Ladder Capital Finance in the formation of its loan origination and commercial mortgage-backed securities trading platform.
Practice Areas
- Private Equity
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Corporate
- Leveraged Acquisitions
- Private Funds
Admissions
- 2005, Connecticut
- 2006, New York
Education
- Fordham University School of Law, J.D. 2005 magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Fordham Law Review, Dean's List 2002-05
- University of Pennsylvania, M.S.Ed., Secondary Education 1997
- University of Pennsylvania, B.A., Biology 1996 Dean's List 1995-96