Jacob Kleinman is counsel in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. Jacob focuses on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and general corporate and securities law matters.
Jacob has represented a broad range of clients in connection with a variety of matters, including the following:
- Velocity Risk Underwriters, LLC in its acquisition by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.
- Time Manufacturing Company/Versalift, a portfolio company of The Sterling Group, in its acquisition of BrandFX Holdings, LLC
- Anaqua in its sale to Astorg
- Inspired Gaming Group (as U.S. counsel) in its acquisition by Hydra Industries Acquisition Corp. from funds managed by Vitruvian Partners LLP and co-investors, a transaction reflecting a £200 million valuation of Inspired
- United Subcontractors, Inc. in its 2016 agreement to be acquired by Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. II for approximately $348.5 million
- Lagardère Travel Retail in its $530 million agreement to acquire Paradies
- Lime Rock Partners in its recapitalization of SDI Gas, a Marcellus oilfield services company
- GFI Group in its sale to BGC Partners
- AdColony in its acquisition by Opera
- iParadigms in its sale to Insight Venture Partners and GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, from majority owner Warburg Pincus
- Warburg Pincus and JHP Pharmaceuticals, LLC in connection with Warburg Pincus’s approximately $490 million sale of JHP to Par Pharmaceutical
- Warburg Pincus in its investment in Dude Solutions
- Insight Venture Partners in its acquisition of Kaseya
- Cowen Group in its acquisition of Dahlman Rose & Company
- OppenheimerFunds in its acquisition of SteelPath Capital Management and SteelPath Fund Advisors
- RG Steel in sales of substantially all of its assets in bankruptcy
- Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of a minority interest in InComm
- Insight Venture Partners in its investment in Trendy Entertainment
- Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of a majority interest in FacilitySource
- The Blackstone Group and Graham Packaging Holdings Company, a portfolio company, in the corporate reorganization of Graham Packaging Holdings Company in connection with its public offering
- Lightyear Capital in its investment in Community & Southern Bank, which acquired the banking operations of First National Bank of Carrollton (Georgia)
- MSD Capital and Stone Point Capital in their investment in OneWest Bank Group, which acquired the banking operations of IndyMac Federal Bank
- Meridian Capital Group and its affiliates in their investment in Ladder Capital Finance
- Marathon Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in its acquisition of Global Ship Lease
- Vestar Capital Partners in its acquisition of Press Ganey Associates
- Bear Stearns Merchant Banking (now known as Irving Place Capital) and other private equity investors in the recapitalization of Doral Financial Corporation
- Linde AG in sales of its packaged gas business and bulk gas business assets to Airgas and its helium gas assets to Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation
- First Reserve in its sale of Dresser to Riverstone Holdings and Lehman Brothers Co-Investment Partners (which included a re-investment by First Reserve)