14 LEXPERT MAGAZINE
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JUNE 2018
BIG DEALS
DEALS ANALYSIS
19
19
Total Deals Published
9
Corporate Finance
21
10
Mergers and Acquisitions
21
5
Cross-border Transactions
21
BIG DEALS
TRANSACTION VITALS
ANNOUNCED: 12/18/2017
CLOSED: 3/28/2018
TECHNIQUE: PRIVATE EQUITY TRANSACTION
ATTITUDE: FRIENDLY
VALUE: $4.95 BILLION
KEN OTTENBREIT
STIKEMAN ELLIOTT LLP
(FOR PLATINUM EQUITY
IN CANADA)
ARLAN GATES
BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP
(FOR PLATINUM EQUITY,
COMPETITION AND
REGULATORY)
JOHN EMANOILIDIS
TORYS LLP
(FOR HUSKY, BERKSHIRE
AND OMERS IN CANADA)
ALEXIS LEVINE
BLAKE, CASSELS
& GRAYDON LLP
(FOR THE FINANCING PARTIES)
Capital Partners IV (Platinum Equity) completed the acquisition of
Husky Injection Molding Systems (Husky) from Berkshire Partners
and OMERS Private Equity for $4.95 billion (US$3.85 billion).
Based in Bolton, Ont., Husky is a global supplier of highly engi-
neered injection molding equipment and services for the plastic injec-
tion molding equipment industry, and a leading provider of PET sys-
tems, hot runners, aermarket tooling, medical molds and specialty
closure molds.
Platinum Equity is a global investment firm with $13 billion of as-
sets under management and a portfolio of more than 30 operating
companies that serve customers around the world.
Financing was arranged by certain affiliates of Bank of America
Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
Barclays, BMO Capital Markets, TD Securities and National Bank
of Canada Financials Markets (collectively, the Financing Parties).
Platinum Equity was represented in Canada by Stikeman Elliott
LLP with a team that included Ken Ottenbreit, Gordon Cameron,
Hélia Taheri and Victoria Zaric (M&A), John Lorito and Lindsay
Gwyer (tax), Michael Urbani, Gawain Chan and Victor Gerchikov
(securities), Michael Kilby (competition), Craig Mitchell and Shona
Sinclair (banking), Lorna Cuthbert and Khalfan Khalfan (employ-
ment), Dana Porter and Julie Harmgardt (real estate), Patrick Duffy
(environmental), Andrea Boctor (benefits), and Justine Whitehead
and Komil Joshi (IP).
Platinum Equity was represented in the United States by Latham
& Watkins LLP with a team that included David Brown, Jonathan
Solomon, Victoria VanStekelenburg and Monica Hernandez (M&A),
Tristan Colyar, Faisal Amin and Leakhena Mom (securities), Melissa
Fabian, Claire Bourque, Alison Morris, Jovanna Grant and Scott
Forchheimer (banking) and Matthew Conway (employment).
Platinum Equity was represented in Canada and internationally on
competition and regulatory matters (including Investment Canada
Act approval) by Baker McKenzie with a team that included Arlan
Gates, Yana Ermak and Sarah Mavula in Canada, Keith Jones and
Eva Crook-Santner in the United Kingdom, Stephen Crosswell and
Laura Liu in China, Nicolas Kredel in Germany, Andreas Traugott in
Austria, Mikolaj Piaskowski in Poland, Leana Engelbrecht in South
Africa, Sinan Diniz in Turkey and Olga Protchenko in Russia.
Husky, Berkshire and OMERS were represented in Canada by
Torys LLP, with a team that included John Emanoilidis, Matthew
Atkey and Stephen Abrahamson (corporate/M&A), Jerald Worts-
man and Craig Maurice (tax), Susan Nickerson, Jennifer Lennon
and Caitlin Morin (employment), Omar Wakil (regulatory), Michael
Fortier (environmental), Edward Fan (IP) and Graham Rawlinson
(real estate).
Husky, Berkshire and OMERS were represented in the United
States by Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, with a team that includ-
COMPILED BY GENA SMITH
PLATINUM EQUITY COMPLETES ACQUISITION
OF HUSKY INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEMS
