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    Richard A. Pollack

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    Richard Pollack is co-head of the Firm’s private equity group and a Partner of the Firm’s London Office. Mr. Pollack has extensive experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions in a wide range of industries, as well as in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities on behalf of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers. He was previously co-head of the Firm’s General Practice group, from January 2006 to February 2012. Until his move to London, Mr. Pollack was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn.

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    Experience

    Experience

    Mr. Pollack’s recent private equity & M&A assignments include representing (2017 to present):

    • Altor Equity Partners in its definitive share purchase agreement to sell Orchid Orthopedic Solutions to Nordic Capital
    • A sovereign wealth fund in multiple investments in Europe, Asia and the United States
    • A family office in a venture capital investment in a U.S. entity
    • Baker and Baker (formerly known as CSM Bakery Solutions), a portfolio business of Rhône Capital, on the sale of Brill, its North American baking business, to Olympus Growth Fund VI, and on the carve-out of its ingredients business and the sale of that business to Investindustrial VII
    • BP in its agreement with Bridas Corporation to form a new integrated energy company, Pan American Energy Group, by combining their interests in the oil and gas producer Pan American Energy and the refiner and marketer Axion in a cash-free transaction
    • Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. in its conversion from a Marshall Islands limited partnership, named Capital Product Partners L.P., to a Marshall Islands corporation
    • Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. in the sale of 10 million common units of Capital Product Partners L.P. to Yoda PLC
    • Capital Product Partners L.P. (“CPLP”) and Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. in the acquisition of 11 newbuild LNG carriers for $3.13 billion, including on CPLP’s $500 million rights offering in order to finance a portion of the purchase price

    • Capital Product Partners (“CPLP”) in the spin-off of its crude and product tanker business into a separate publicly listed company, which merged with DSS Holdings in a $1.65 billion transaction, and the subsequent sale of its interest in DSS
    • e& in its acquisition of a passive 9.8% stake in Vodafone Group Plc for $4.4 billion, becoming Vodafone’s largest shareholder
    • EssilorLuxottica
      • acquisition of GrandVision from HAL Optical Investments for €7 billion
      • sale of GrandVision’s Chilean business
      • sale of VistaSì and other GrandVision assets to Vision Group and GrandVision in its sale of EyeWish and GrandOpitcal to Optic Retail International Group BENE, a member of MPG Austria
    • Global Knowledge Training in its sale to special purpose acquisition company, Churchill Capital Corp II, from Rhône Capital as part of a three way business combination creating a $1.5 billion company
    • Ignite Luxembourg Holdings, indirectly managed by Rhône Holdings VI, in its offer for a 29.9% stake in RHI Magnesita, valuing the entire issued and outstanding share capital at approximately €1.5 billion
    • Kering in the divestment of its Volcom brand and operations to Authentic Brands Group
    • Misland Capital Limited on the purchase of a minority equity interest in EagleTree Capital
    • Rhône Capital and its affiliated investment funds
      • and Fogo de Chão in connection with Fogo de Chão’s definitive agreement to be acquired by Bain Capital Private Equity 
      • acquisition of a 45% stake in Garda World, a subsequent 29% stake of the parent company and its subsequent sale of its equity interest in Garda World 
      • acquisition of Ranpak and Ranpak’s subsequent combination with One Madison Corporation, introducing Ranpak as a publicly listed company with an enterprise value of approximately $950 million
      • acquisition jointly with Goldman Sachs of Neovia Logistics and subsequent agreement to provide new equity capital in connection with the comprehensive recapitalization of Neovia Logistics and its subsidiaries 
      • acquisition of Fogo de Chão, in an all cash transaction valued at $560 million 
      • acquisition of Zodiac Pool
    • Silver Lake as an investor in connection with Getir’s Series D funding round, which raised over $550 million and its Series E funding round

    Mr. Pollack’s other private equity & M&A assignments include representing (pre-2017):

    • An investor consortium led by Silver Lake Partners in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Skype Technologies from eBay
    • Aquiline in its acquisition of Conning
    • ASAC II, an investment vehicle led by Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick and Co-Chairman Brian Kelly, in their purchase of approximately 172 million Activision shares from Vivendi, for approximately $2.34 billion
    • American Express in the sale of its Tax and Business Services group to H&R Block and in its joint venture with Vente Privée
    • Aventis in its acquisition by Sanofi-Synthélabo
    • Banacci in its acquisition by Citigroup
    • Barclays Capital in the acquisition and subsequent sale of an interest in NGP Energy Capital Management
    • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in its investment in Asurion and subsequent increases in its ownership of Asurion, its entry into and subsequent termination of its MerchCap Solutions joint venture and its joint patent licensing program for digital television and computer display monitor with Technicolor and Sony Corporation
    • Cap Gemini in its acquisition of Ernst & Young Consulting
    • CGIP and CarnaudMetalbox in the sale of CarnaudMetalbox to Crown Cork & Seal and the subsequent dispositions by CGIP of its shares of Crown Cork & Seal
    • China Investment Corporation in its co-investment alongside a Morgan Stanley affiliate in Triana Energy Investments
    • Deloitte Consulting in its proposed separation from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
    • Elf Aquitaine in the acquisition of Occidental Petroleum’s North Sea assets and in various other matters
    • Endesa in its acquisition by Enel and Acciona, as well as in defense of unsolicited bids by E.ON and Gas Natural
    • Eurazeo with respect to its investment in Lazard Frères
    • GGP in its transactions involving Pershing Square Capital
    • Goldman Sachs Capital Partners in the acquisition of UICI
    • Hoechst in the disposition of one of its chemical businesses
    • Institut Mérieux in its acquisition of Connaught BioSciences
    • Israel Corp. and DS Constructions in their acquisition of Globeleq Americas Limited
    • Lazard Frères in its strategic alliance agreement with Lazard Korea Limited, its acquisition of Carnegie, Wylie & Co., its joint ventures with Raiffiassen and Alfara Asesores Financieros, the merger of Rhône Poulenc and Hoechst to form Aventis, and in several other transactions
    • Lightyear Capital in the sale of Collegiate Funding and in the creation of Athilon
    • Reservoir Capital
      • agreement with Centerbridge Partners to acquire a minority stake in Amedeo Capital Limited
      • restructuring and sale of an interest in Intrepid
      • restructuring of C-12 and the acquisition by Reservoir of an interest in C-12 from Sequoia Capital
      • formation of a new platform company focused on acquiring mobile home/manufactured housing parks
      • establishment of a platform, managed by Echo Minerals, that will invest in oil and gas mineral interests
    • Rhône Capital and its affiliated investment funds
      • acquisition of and subsequent increases of ownership in CSM NV’s bakery supplies business
      • acquisition of GK Holdings
      • acquisition and subsequent sale of Rexair Holdings
      • acquisition of the Carbon Black business of Evonik Industries
      • acquisition and subsequent sale of Arizona Chemical
      • acquisition and recapitalizations of Quiksilver
      • acquisition and subsequent sale of LWB
      • acquisition and subsequent sale of Fraikin
      • acquisition and subsequent sale of an interest in Coty
      • acquisition and subsequent sale of Terphane
      • Generali’s acquisition of an interest in Rhône and the formation of an asset management and joint venture with Generali
    • Russell Platt in connection with the restructuring of Forum Partners
    • Sienna Capital
    • investment in Marcho Partners’ tech fund
    • investment in C2 Capital’s “Global Export to China Fund”
    • SITA, a subsidiary of Suez, in a number of acquisitions and dispositions, including its acquisition of BFI’s non-U.S. assets
    • Société Générale in the Paribas and BNP transactions
    • Strata Energy Investments, a new joint venture between Reservoir Capital and other individuals, in connection with pursuing greenfield and brownfield project developments and in its acquisitions with Divide Energy Group and its principals and Vox Capital and its principles
    • Thomson in the implementation of its new group strategy, including the investment by Silver Lake Partners in Thomson
    • TOTAL in its acquisitions of Synenco Energy, Deer Creek Energy and Gener’s Argentine operations, and several other matters
    • York Capital in connection with Credit Suisse’s acquisition of a minority interest in York

    Mr. Pollack’s private equity experience, in addition to the transactions listed above, includes representing Apollo, Barclays Capital, Compass Partners, Eurazeo, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Lightyear Capital, MatlinPatterson Partners, Navitas Capital, Olympus Capital, Ontario Teachers, Perry Capital, Reservoir Capital, Rhône Capital, Ripplewood Holdings, Sienna Capital and Silver Lake Partners in various transactions and establishing various private equity funds and joint ventures for Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Rhône Capital, Reservoir Capital, Navitas Capital, Olympus Capital and Tincium Capital.

    Mr. Pollack’s capital markets experience includes acting for Elf in its privatization and for the underwriters in the privatizations of each of Pechiney and Pechiney International, as well as for the issuer or the underwriters in various offerings by Ciments Français, Elf, Euro Disney, Groupe Danone and JC Decaux. Mr. Pollack has also represented issuers and underwriters in a substantial number of securities offerings by U.S., Canadian, French, German, Spanish, Argentine, Brazilian and Mexican issuers in a wide range of industries.

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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises Financial Adviser in $7.1 Billion Privatization Proposal for Real Estate Investment Manager ESR Group

      December 9, 2024
    • S&C Advises Capital Maritime in $3.13 Billion Sale of LNG Vessels to Capital Product Partners

      November 17, 2023
    • S&C Advises Rhône Capital in $1.1 Billion Fogo de Chão’s Sale to Bain Capital

      August 18, 2023
    • S&C Advises e& on the Formation of a Strategic Relationship with Vodafone

      May 11, 2023
    • S&C Advises e& on Acquisition of 9.8% Stake in Vodafone

      May 19, 2022
    • S&C Advises EssilorLuxottica on €5.5 Billion Majority Investment in GrandVision

      July 14, 2021
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • Recent De-SPAC Transactions in Europe

      Podcasts June 9, 2022
    • European M&A–Lessons from a Time of Turmoil

      Webinars July 26, 2021
    • Brexit: Implications for Global Transactions

      Emerging Issues January 5, 2021
    • European M&A

      Webinars April 28, 2020
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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • New York University School of Law, J.D., 1988
    • Columbia University, A.B., 1984

    Bar Admissions

    • New York
    • Paris (inactive)
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    Related Practices

    Related Practices

    • General Practice
    • Capital Markets
    • Energy Transition
    • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
    • Europe
    • Foreign Investments and Trade Regulations
    • Investment Management
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Private Equity
    • Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies
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