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    Brian E. Hamilton

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    Brian Hamilton is a partner in the Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Among other current and former leadership positions at the Firm, he is the co-head of the Firm’s Private Equity Group. Mr. Hamilton advises on private M&A and private equity transactions, both in and outside the U.S., and in a variety of industries. He has been engaged in many high profile matters to global leaders such as Advance, Booking Holdings, Goldman Sachs and Recruit Holdings.

    In 2018, Mr. Hamilton was named to The Deal’s M&A Power Rankings for his work on mega deals. In 2015, he was named an “MVP in Telecommunications” by Law360. Mr. Hamilton has also been consistently recognized as a leading lawyer in M&A by New York Super Lawyers and named a “Rising Star” in the U.S. by IFLR1000.

    Mr. Hamilton is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has also participated in numerous legal panels and published several pieces on topics such as corporate governance, joint ventures, cross-border M&A and financial regulation.

    Mr. Hamilton is actively involved in the community. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Neighborhood Charter Schools and is a member of the Advisory Board for Star Track Youth Cycling. A persistent triathlete, Mr. Hamilton has competed in over a dozen long-course Ironman races, including four world championships.

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    Experience

    Experience

    Private Equity and Family Office

    • AcBel Polytech in its $505 million acquisition of ABB’s Power Conversion division (f/k/a Lineage Power)
    • 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
    • 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 Mallinckrodt, Endologix and Melinta
    • Eurazeo in the buyout by partners of Lazard of Eurazeo’s significant ownership interest in Lazard, enabling Lazard’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
    • The secured creditors in Lannett Company’s emergence from Chapter 11
    • 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 its $500 million acquisition of a minority stake in Phoenix Tower International from funds affiliated with Blackstone, and in its acquisition of i3 Broadband from Seaport Capital

    Technology, Media & Telecommunications

    • 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
    • Booking Holdings 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 The Priceline Group in its $450 million investment in Meituan-Dianping, one of China’s largest service-focused e-commerce platforms; commercial agreement with and $2 billion investment in Ctrip.com; $2.6 billion acquisition of OpenTable; and $1.8 billion acquisition of KAYAK
    • CyrusOne in 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 AT&T Corp.
    • 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 Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps

    Other

    • Chevron U.S.A. 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 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
    • Hess Corporation in its sale of its interest in Hess Energy Trading Company to Oaktree Capital Management
    • 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
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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises Chevron on Majority Investment in U.S. Green Hydrogen Venture

      September 12, 2023
    • S&C Advises Sempra Infrastructure Partners in Port Arthur LNG Project Financing and Announced Sale of Interest in the Project to KKR

      March 30, 2023
    • S&C Advises AcBel Polytech in Deal To Acquire Power Conversion Division of ABB

      February 1, 2023
    • S&C Advises Booking Holdings in $1.2 Billion Acquisition of Getaroom

      November 18, 2021
    • S&C Advises Recruit in $5.7 Billion Leveraged Buy-Out of China’s 51job

      June 25, 2021
    • S&C Represents Advance in Acquisition of IRONMAN Group

      July 21, 2020
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • S&C Private Equity Lawyers Explain Investment Landscape in COVID-19 Environment

      Books May 28, 2020
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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • New York University School of Law, J.D., 1998
    • University at Albany, State University of New York, M.A., 1994
    • University at Albany, State University of New York, B.A., 1993

    Bar Admissions

    • New York
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