Jaye Kasper
Biography
Overview
Jaye Kasper is a partner in the Global Mergers & Acquisitions practice, based in New York. Jaye's practice focuses on advising private equity funds and private and public companies on complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, de-SPACs, carve-outs, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, executive compensation, incentive equity arrangements, governance and other general corporate matters. Jaye also advises private equity funds in the management of their portfolio companies, including financings, follow-on acquisitions and liquidity events.
Prior to joining White & Case, Jaye was a partner at other global law firms in their corporate practice.
Experience
Jaye has advised clients on numerous significant matters, including the representation of:
ABRY Partners and Inmar Inc. in the sale of Inmar Inc. to OMERS Private Equity
Altas Partners and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in the sale of Capital Vision Services, LP (operating under the "MyEyeDr." Brand) to the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs
A&M Capital Partners in its:
- sale of ettain group to ManpowerGroup
- acquisition of CNSI
- sale of Centerra Group
- sale of Gabriel Brothers
Amer Sports, along with its investor consortium, in its $420 million sale of Amer's Precor division to Peloton
The Carlyle Group in its $435 million acquisition of Unchained Labs
Cogeco Communications Inc. and Atlantic Broadband in the $1.4 billion acquisition of MetroCast cable systems
EQT Infrastructure on its acquisition of EdgeConneX
EQT Private Equity in its sale of Zemax to Ansys
Greenbriar Equity Group in its:
- acquisition of Reunity
- investment in Radwell International
- acquisition of Sunvair Aerospace Group
- acquisition of Sparkstone Electrical Group
- acquisition of Electrical Source Holdings and numerous add-on acquisitions
- and its portfolio company Whitcraft Group on its pending combination with Paradigm Precision alongside Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
iHeartMedia, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries in the $1.8 billion separation of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries out of the iHeartMedia Group in connection with iHeartMedia's Chapter 11 restructuring process
The Jordan Company:
- in the recapitalization of global freight forwarding leader AIT Worldwide Logistics
- in its strategic investment in Invo Healthcare Associates LLC
Parts Authority, a portfolio company of The Jordan Company, in its sale of a majority stake to Kohlberg & Company, LLC
LCatterton in its investment in Equinox Fitness Clubs
McDonald's Corporation in its:
- sale of Dynamic Yield to Mastercard
- sale of McD Tech Labs to IBM
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. in its PIPE investment fromL Catterton as part of Norwegian's multi-tranche financing for aggregate proceeds of up to $2.4 billion
Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) in its partnership with IBM (NYSE: IBM) and acquisition of IBM's QRadar Software as a service business, to deliver AI-powered security outcomes for customers.
Polestar Performance AB in its $20 billion combination with Gores Guggenheim Inc.
Sentinel Capital Partners in its sale of Sonny's Enterprises
Starwood Capital Group in its:
- $2.85 billion acquisition of Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust
- sale of BR Guest Hospitality to Landry's
Sycamore Partners in connection with its $6.9 billion acquisition of Staples, Inc.
Two Sigma Impact and BayPine in the acquisition of Penn Foster
Vestar Capital Partners in its:
- investment in Simple Mills
- investment in Information Resources, Inc., a leading provider of big data and market research, alongside New Mountain Capital
Warburg Pincus in several matters including:
- numerous private company and take-private bids
- acquisition of WebPT, an electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management software provider for outpatient physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists, from Battery Ventures
- Acquisition of the BioPharma Solutions Business, a leading provider of sterile contract manufacturing solutions, parenteral delivery systems and customized support services to the pharma and biotech industries, from Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), for $4.25 billion in cash in partnership with Advent International*
- sale of Wencor Group, a large provider of commercial and military aircraft aftermarket replacement parts and aircraft & engine accessory component repair and overhaul services, to Heico Corporation (NYSE:HEI) for $2.05 billion, comprised of $1.90 billion in cash and $150 million in HEICO Class A common stock*
- strategic investment in Pareto Health, Inc., the employee benefits platform of choice for thousands of businesses*
- sale of PolyPlus, a global provider of upstream bioprocessing solutions, to Sartorius AG for €2.4 billion*
*Certain matters were worked on prior to joining White & Case.
