Caleb Vesey is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department focusing on mergers & acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance. He represents buyers, sellers, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, and financial institutions in a variety of corporate transactions, including leveraged buyouts and public and private mergers and acquisitions.
Experience
Prior to joining Willkie, Caleb was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
- Variety, Dealmakers Impact Report, 2023
Caleb’s experience includes the following representative matters*:
- Ares Management in numerous transactions including:
- acquisition of Resource Label Group
- strategic investment in LaserAway
- sale of National Veterinary Associates to JAB Investors
- Arlington Capital Partners in its acquisition of Stellant Systems, formerly L3Harris Technologies’ Electron Devices and Narda Microwave-West Divisions
- Brillstein Entertainment Partners in its acquisition by Wasserman
- Cirque du Soleil in its 2021 restructuring, related asset sale transactions and Chapter 15 proceedings
- Clearlake Capital Group in its investment in Lytx, Inc.
- Creative Planning in its strategic minority investment by General Atlantic
- FFL Partners and portfolio company ProService, a leading provider of bundled HR solutions, in the sale of ProService to Silver Lake
- Fortress Investment Group in numerous transactions, including:
- investment in GameCo, a producer of next-generation casino games
- financing of the take-private of Perry Ellis International
- joint financing with Goldman Sachs of Win Systems
- financing of the acquisition of Grindr
- creation of its specialty joint venture, Palisade Global, with CAC Specialty
- KKR in its investment in Cross River Bank
- Knox Lane Capital in numerous transactions including:
- acquisition of Fingerpaint Marketing
- acquisition of Any Hour Group
- growth equity investment in Pattern Inc.
- Lovell Minnick Partners in its majority investment in SRS Acquiom
- Oaktree Capital Management in numerous transactions including:
- 2018 acquisition of Fidelity Building Services Group and 2021 sale to Onex Corporation
- Oaktree Capital Management in its acquisition of Saber Power Services
- Percheron Capital and its portfolio company, Big Brand Tire, in their acquisition of American Tire Depot
- Plan B Entertainment, the production company founded and led by Brad Pitt, in the sale of a majority stake to Mediawan
- Platinum Equity in its acquisition of The Cabinetworks Group
- REP 1 Football in its sale to Excel Sports Management
- Resource Label Group in its acquisition of StickerGiant.com, Inc.
- Shamrock Capital Advisors in numerous transactions, including:
- acquisition of higher education enrollment marketing firm Carnegie
- acquisition of Highwire PR
- sale of Giant Creative Strategy LLC
- TPG Growth in its acquisition of Crunch Fitness
- Transom Capital in numerous transactions including:
- acquisition of the Wolters Kluwer U.S. Legal Education Business
- sale of SemiTorr Group Inc. to Clearlake portfolio company, Floworks
- Truelink Capital in its acquisition of Trulite Glass & Aluminum Solutions, one of North America's largest architectural glass and aluminum fabricators
- Valence Media Partners in numerous transactions, including:
- minority investment in Fulwell 73 Ltd.
- acquisition of the music-industry data software and analytics business of Nielsen Holdings
- formation with Penske Media of the PMRC and Luminate (f/k/a P-MRC Data) joint ventures
- joint venture and first look arrangement with Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street Productions
- The founders of MediaAlpha in connection with its IPO
*Caleb advised on some of these transactions prior to joining Willkie in 2022.
Credentials
Education
New York Law School, J.D. (summa cum laude), 2013 James Madison University, BM, 2003