Brian E. Hamilton

• Ranked in Super Lawyers as a top Mergers & Acquisitions attorney, 2013-2025
• Named to The Deal’s M&A Power Rankings, 2018
• Recognized as a Law360 MVP in Telecommunications, 2015

• Star Track Youth Cycling, Advisory Board

• Co-Author, "Looking Beyond Leverage to Drive Sponsor Returns,"; Financier Worldwide, October 2024
• Co-Author, "Private equity activity in the COVID-19 environment,"; Financier Worldwide, June 2020
  
   

Private Equity and Family Office

• Advance in its $730 million acquisition of The IRONMAN Group from Wanda Sports Group and in connection with Discovery’s $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Interactive
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of American Greetings in its going private by the Weiss family and Koch Industries
• ARAMARK Chairman and CEO Joseph Neubauer in the $8.3 billion leveraged buyout of ARAMARK led by Mr. Neubauer and a group of four private equity sponsors, and in subsequent secondary sales following ARAMARK’s IPO
• Bright House Networks (owned by Advance) in its three-way combination with Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable to create an $80 billion cable company
• Deerfield Partners in the purchases out of bankruptcy of a multibillion dollar pharmaceutical company, Lannett, Endologix and Melinta
• Eurazeo in the buyout by partners of a public financial services firm of Eurazeo’s significant ownership interest in the public financial services firm, enabling the firm’s IPO
• GGP in its $28 billion acquisition by Brookfield Property Partners
• The Goldman Sachs Group in its sale of Metro International Trade Services to Reuben Brothers
• Joann Stores in its $1.6 billion sale to Leonard Green & Partners
• LionTree Investment Fund as an investor in connection with Contentsquare’s $600 million growth investment round, in its purchase of convertible notes issued by Oscar Health and in its investment in Savage X Fenty, the lingerie brand founded by Rihanna
• The conflicts committee of the board of NRG Yield in its sponsor NRG Energy’s $1.375 billion sale of 100% of its controlling interest in NRG Yield to an equity fund of Global Infrastructure Partners
• Riverstone Holdings and Pattern Energy Group Holdings 2 LP (Pattern Development) in connection with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Riverstone’s combination of Pattern Energy Group Inc. and Pattern Development under common ownership following CPPIB’s acquisition of Pattern Energy Group
• Sempra Infrastructure Partners in its sale of an indirect, non-controlling interest in the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project in Jefferson County, Texas to an infrastructure fund managed by KKR
• A sovereign wealth fund in a number of co-investment transactions
• TerraForm Global in its $1.3 billion acquisition by Brookfield Asset Management
• Wren House Infrastructure in the formation of a joint venture to co-own three data centers managed by QTS, a portfolio company of a global investment firm, in its $500 million acquisition of a minority stake in Phoenix Tower International from funds affiliated with a global investment firm, and in its acquisition of i3 Broadband from Seaport Capital

Technology, Media & Telecommunications

• AcBel Polytech in its $505 million acquisition of ABB’s Power Conversion division 
• AMC Networks in its initial control investment in RLJ Entertainment and its going private acquisition of the rest of RLJ Entertainment, as well as its investments in the BritBox SVOD platform with BBC and ITV and in fuboTV
• Ascribe Capital as an investor in Fuse Media in connection with the acquisition of a majority, controlling interest in Fuse by a management group headed by Fuse’s CEO
• Azrieli Group in connection with its minority interest in Compass DataCenters and the $5.7 billion sale of Compass to Brookfield and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
• A multinational internet travel technology company in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Getaroom from Court Square Capital Partners; investments in and strategic partnerships with Yanolja, Didi Chuxing and Grab Holdings, and in its $450 million investment in Meituan-Dianping, one of China’s largest service-focused e-commerce platforms; as well as in its commercial agreement with and $2 billion investment in Ctrip.com; $2.6 billion acquisition of a top online restaurant reservations site; and its $1.8 billion acquisition of a top online airline booking site  
• CyrusOne in a number of transactions, including its $442 million acquisition of Zenium Data Centers from Quantum Strategic Partners and in the formation of a new strategic partnership and commercial agreement with GDS Holdings and its related $100 million investment in GDS Holdings
• Motivate, the largest bikeshare operator in North America, in its acquisition by Lyft
• Recruit Holdings in Indeed’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Glassdoor, and as 51job’s largest shareholder in connection with the $4.3 billion LBO of 51job by a buyout group that included 51job’s CEO Rick Yan, Recruit, DCP Capital Partners and Ocean Link Partners
• SBC Communications in its $22 billion acquisition of a public telecommunications conglomerate
• Silver Lake Partners-led consortium in its $2.025 billion acquisition of a 65% interest in Skype from eBay
• Tillman Global Holdings in connection with Tillman FiberCo’s strategic partnership with Northleaf Capital Partners, under which funds managed by Northleaf have made an initial investment of $200 million; in its partnership with Carlyle, in which funds managed by Carlyle’s Global Infrastructure platform have committed up to $1 billion to accelerate Tillman Global’s investments in Tillman Infrastructure; in the $150 million investment in Tillman Digital Cities by HPS Investment Partners; in connection with UBS Asset Management’s strategic minority investment in Tillman Infrastructure; Tillman Infrastructure’s initial equity investment and senior secured term loan from a consortium consisting of Melody Capital and Tennenbaum Capital; and in its formation with TPG Growth of Apollo Towers
• Verus Analytics in its sale to a top financial and risk advisory firm

Other

• A leading integrated energy company, in its acquisition of a majority interest in ACES Delta, which is developing a renewable energy hub to convert, store and deliver green hydrogen to the Western U.S.
• CVS in its $12.7 billion acquisition of Omnicare
• Flow Traders Group in the re-domestication of its top two holding companies from the Netherlands to Bermuda and Delaware
• Gildan Activewear in its pending acquisition of Hanesbrands Inc. and in its acquisitions of American Apparel, Alstyle Apparel, Anvil Holdings, Comfort Colors, Gold Toe Moretz and Phoenix Sanford
• Goldman Sachs in its $2.25 billion acquisition of GreenSky, €1.7 billion acquisition of NN Investment Partners from NN Group, its formation of a venture with Synchronoss Technologies to develop advanced mobile secure enterprise solutions, its acquisitions of Clarity Money, Folio Financial and GE Capital Bank’s online deposit platform, and in its sale of its fund administration services business to State Street
• A global, public independent energy company in its sale of its interest in its commodities trading division to a global investment management firm
• ING Group in its sale of ING Direct USA to Capital One and its sale of ING Bank of Canada to The Bank of Nova Scotia
• A leading activist investment firm in a number of campaigns to improve shareholder value at public companies, including notable settlement agreements and a successful proxy fight 

_{*Brian advised on some of these matters prior to joining Willkie.}