Kiran S. Kadekar
Biography
Overview
Kiran is a partner in the Global Mergers & Acquisitions practice based in New York. He represents family offices, private equity firms, hedge funds, global financial institutions and life sciences, industrial, energy and technology companies in connection with public and private domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, restructurings, joint venture formations and corporate governance. He has also provided advice in connection with the design of digital assets and the formation of digital asset-focused alternative investment vehicles.
Formerly the General Counsel of McCourt Global LLC and Unfinished LLC, where he provided legal guidance across the businesses and oversaw strategy for complex transactions, Kiran has considerable experience advising family offices on transactions and corporate governance issues. While at McCourt Global LLC and Unfinished LLC, he advised on private multi-party cross-border M&A transactions, existing and potential joint ventures in the U.S., Europe and Asia; U.S. and European real estate transactions; U.S. and European private financing transactions; various cross-border litigation matters; and complex international intellectual property matters.
Kiran also speaks French and has extensive experience advising both U.S. and European clients on cross-border M&A transactions.
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Experience
Kiran has advised clients on numerous significant matters, including the representation of:
Public Company M&A
Mithaq Capital, a Riyadh-based family office, in its unsolicited acquisition, over the course of three days, of a controlling stake in The Children's Place, Inc., its successful effort to replace a majority of the board with its own designees and its provision of Sharia-compliant rescue financing to the company.
Arkhouse Management in its $6.6 billion proposal, together with Brigade Capital directors to the company's board.
GK Investor LLC in its investment in Genco Shipping & Trading Limited and effort to elect two directors to the company's board.
Sphinx Investment Corp.:
- in its investment in OceanPal Inc. and effort to elect two directors to the company's board.
- in its investment in Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp.
- in its unsolicited tender offer to purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Performance Shipping Inc.
Related Fund Management in its public offer to the Ladder Capital Corp. board to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Ladder that it did not already own.
Concho Resources Inc. in its approximately $9.5 billion all-stock acquisition of RSP Permian, Inc.
Fifth Third Bank in its assessment of Vantiv's firm offer to acquire Worldpay plc, and the approximately $1.2 billion conversion and sale to Vantiv by Fifth Third Bank of approximately 50% of Fifth Third Bank's remaining equity interests in Vantiv and Vantiv's operating company.
Delta Air Lines Inc. in its €375 million acquisition of an approximately 10% interest in Air France-KLM.
State Grid Corporation of China in its approximately $13 billion acquisition of a controlling interest in CPFL Energia S.A.
Tesoro Corporation in its approximately $5.8 billion acquisition of Western Refining, Inc.
Suncor Energy, Inc. in its successful C$4.6 billion takeover bid for Canadian Oil Sands Limited.
Remy International, Inc. in its approximately $1.2 billion sale to BorgWarner Inc.
Synageva Biopharma Corp. in its approximately $8.4 billion sale to Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
BBVA in the approximately $2 billion sale of its approximately 64.3% interest in Chilean pension fund administrator Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida S.A. to MetLife, Inc.
Electricité de France in its approximately €1.5 billion dual U.S./French tender offer for the 50% of EDF Energies Nouvelles S.A. that it did not already own.
Private equity fund Mithril in its successful proxy contest to elect three members to the classified board of Adagio Therapeutics, Inc.
Private M&A
Fortress Investment Group in various private transactions.
Frank H. McCourt Jr. and certain affiliates in connection with:
- the sale of their 50% interest in Netherlands-based Global Champions equestrian showjumping tour and league.
- a number of complex transactions involving French Ligue 1 soccer team Olympique de Marseille.
Weir Group PLC in its approximately $1.285 billion acquisition by private merger of ESCO Corporation.
Lion Capital LLP in the acquisition by one of its managed funds of a minority investment in Authentic Brands Group LLC from members of management and a fund managed by Leonard Green & Partners LP.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in the sale of its metals warehousing business to Reuben Brothers.
BBVA in:
- the approximately $500 million sale of its Panamanian banking affiliate, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (Panama) S.A., to an affiliate of Grupo Aval.
- in the approximately $514 million sale over the Lima stock exchange of its Peruvian pension funds administrator, AFP Horizonte S.A., to affiliates of Grupo Sura and the Bank of Nova Scotia.
ING:
- in the approximately $100 million management buy-out of its U.S.-based real estate investment management business, ING Clarion Partners LLC.
- in the approximately $610 million sale of its pan-European and pan-Asian real estate investment management businesses to CBRE, Inc.
- in the approximately $330 million sale of its U.S.-based commercial real estate securities investment management business, ING Clarion Real Estate Securities LLC, to CBRE, Inc.
Venture Capital firm Volta Energy Technologies in numerous transactions.
Various other confidential matters on behalf of several prominent private equity firms and financial institutions.
Joint Ventures
CVS in its establishment of the world's then-largest joint-venture for the joint sourcing and negotiation of supply contracts for generic pharmaceuticals.
*Certain matters were worked on prior to joining White & Case.
