Alison H. Kronstadt

Associate

Practice Description

Representative Matters

• Represented Fortune Brands, Inc. in the $1.225 billion sale of its Acushnet Company subsidiary, which manufactures and distributes Titleist golf balls and clubs and FootJoy golf shoes and gloves, to a group led by Fila Korea Ltd., the owner of the Fila sporting goods brand globally, and Mirae Private Equity, the largest private equity firm in Korea. The transaction was honored as the 2011 M&A Deal of the Year by The M&A Advisor.
• Represented the Barclays Natural Resource Investments division of Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC, in connection with its private equity investment in K Road Power, an independent power developer focused on developing, financing, owning and operating utility-scale solar projects in the Southwest United States.
• Represented NYSE-listed GLG Partners, Inc. in a cross-border merger with LSE-listed Man Group plc, one of the largest mergers in history for alternative asset and hedge fund managers, resulting in a company with approximately $63 billion of assets under management. The transaction involved a novel bifurcated structure whereby the GLG controlling stockholders received Man Group common stock in exchange for their shares of GLG, and public stockholders of GLG received cash in the merger.
• Represented J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. as solicitation agent in connection with Newland International Properties, Corp.'s consent solicitation relating to amendments under the indenture governing its 9.50% senior secured notes due 2014.
• Represented ArvinMeritor, Inc. in: 
  • its registered public offering of 19,952,500 shares of its common stock; and 
  • its registered public offering of $250 million aggregate principal amount of its 10.625% Notes due 2018.
• Represented Rockwell Collins, Inc. in its $300 million registered public debt offering of convertible subordinated notes due 2019.
• Represented GLG Partners, Inc. in its $228.5 million 144A/Regulation S offering of convertible subordinated notes due 2014.
• Represented Mechel OAO, the Russian mining and metals conglomerate, in its acquisition of the U.S. privately-owned Bluestone Coal Corporation for $425 million plus preferred shares.
• Represented a publicly-traded Spanish corporation in the acquisition of a controlling interest in a chain of Panamanian casinos.
• Represented GLG Partners, Inc., a leading alternative asset manager, in its $3.4 billion transaction to access public markets through a reverse acquisition with Freedom Acquisition Holdings, Inc. The transaction was honored as "Deal of the Year" by The Hedge Fund Journal in 2008.

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