Andrew L. Milano

Andrew routinely advises clients in multifaceted deals ranging in value from millions to billions of dollars and involving a range of assets, from container terminals, power generation facilities, and regulated water and wastewater plants to enterprises in the international energy services sector, various manufacturing industries, and logistics operations.

Public Companies

• Hostess Brands, Inc. in its sale to The J.M. Smucker Co. in a cash and stock tender/exchange offer valued at approximately $5.6 billion
• Zurn Water Solutions Corporation, formerly known as Rexnord Corporation, in its $1.7 billion stock for stock merger with Elkay Manufacturing Company, a market leader in the growing commercial drinking water solutions business
• Rexnord Corp, a multiplatform industrial leader, in its definitive agreement with Regal Beloit Corp. under which Rexnord separated its Process & Motion Control (PMC) segment by way of a tax-free spinoff to Rexnord shareholders and then combined it with Regal in a Reverse Morris Trust (RMT) transaction, creating a $10 billion PMC business
• Apollo in a series of transactions, including its $1.12 billion acquisition of Smart & Final, Inc. and $1 billion acquisition of CKE Restaurants, Inc.
• TransForce Corporation in its acquisition of Dynamex
• Nash Finch Company in its $1.3 billion merger with Spartan Stores Inc.
• Lifetime Brands Inc. in its acquisition of Filament Brands, an innovator in the housewares industry

SPACs

• Far Point Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Dan Loeb and Third Point Capital and Tom Farley, in handling all aspects of its initial business combination with Global Blue, a Silver Lake portfolio company, including counseling its board through a recommendation change and renegotiated transaction valued at more than $2 billion
• Hostess Brands LLC in its merger with Gores Holdings Inc., a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of The Gores Group LLC

Logistics

• A.P. Moeller-Maersk in the $1.7 billion acquisition of Pilot Freight Services, a global provider of end-to-end and last-mile solutions specializing in big and bulky B2C and B2B freight, from ATL Partners and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation
• A.P. Moeller-Maersk in its acquisition of Visible Supply Chain Management, a US-based leading B2C/ecommerce logistics and parcel delivery system
• A.P. Moller-Maersk in the $545 million acquisition of Performance Team, a US warehousing and distribution company
• A.P. Moeller-Maersk in its acquisition of Vandegrift Inc., a customs brokerage and freight forwarding business
• A.P. Moeller-Maersk in its sale of APM Terminals’ state-of-the-art container terminal in Portsmouth, Virginia to a partnership of Alinda Capital Partners and Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited
• A.P. Moller-Maersk in the sale of its Direct ChassisLink subsidiary
• Enstructure in its acquisition of CD Corporation, a terminal and logistics business

Manufacturing

• Cypress Performance Group in the sale of IPS Corporation, a global manufacturer of solvent cements, plumbing and roofing products, and adhesives for residential, commercial, and industrial use, to Centerbridge Partners LP
• Cypress Performance Group in the sale of its subsidiary Encapsys, a company that specializes in microencapsulation technology used in production and manufacturing in the food, pharmaceuticals, home care, construction materials, textiles, bedding, and agriculture sectors, to Milliken
• Brickworks North America Corporation in its acquisition of Glen-Gary Corporation and a number of subsequent acquisitions of brick and stone manufacturing and distribution businesses
• Sandvik AB in its acquisition of Varel International Energy Services and subsequent sale of Varel International Energy Services to Blue Water Energy
• The Kraft Group and Schwarz Partners JV in their acquisition of two containerboard mills from global paper and packaging company International Paper
• New Indy JV LLC in its acquisition of Montebello Container Company, a company that focuses on manufacturing and distributing corrugated sheets

Consumer Products and Retail

• Lifetime Brands, Inc. in its acquisition of Can’t Live Without It (d/b/a S’well Bottle), a global designer, wholesaler, and retailer of reusable, vacuum-insulated products
• Apollo Global Management in its $410 million acquisition out of bankruptcy of certain assets of the Hostess Brands baked snack food business
• Apollo Global Management in its $975 million sale of Smart & Final Holdings Corp. to Ares Management LLC
• SpartanNash in its acquisition of Caito
• SpartanNash in its acquisition of Buehler’s supermarket chain from E&H Family Group
• Ares Management in its acquisition of Deva Holdings, Inc., a haircare products company
• Smart & Final Holdings, Inc., an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, in its $970 million sale of its Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores business to US Foods Holding Corp.

Power Generation

• Highstar Capital and Ares EIF in the sale to JERA Co., Inc. of a 50% interest in the Linden Cogeneration Facility, a 972-MW gas-fired thermal power cogeneration complex
• Highstar Capital in the sale of a combined-cycle natural gas power generation facility and two peaker plants to AltaGas
• Highstar Capital in its acquisition of one combined-cycle natural gas power generation facility and two peaker plants from Harbert Infrastructure
• Highstar Capital in the sale of Utilities, Inc., a regulated water and wastewater company
• Star West Generation, which is owned by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. and its co-investors, in the $300 million sale of its ownership interests in Arlington Valley, LLC, which owns the 580 MW combined-cycle natural gas generation Arlington Valley facility, to Capital Power Corporation 
• Oaktree Capital Management L.P. in the agreement by Star West Generation LLC to sell 100% of the ownership interests in Griffith Energy LLC, the owner of a 570 MW gas-fired combined-cycle generation facility, to ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC

IT and Media

• Siguler Guff in its acquisition of Solvd, a global software engineering company working with clients in fitness, fintech, ecommerce, transportation, and healthcare
• UBM plc in the sale of PR Newswire
• UBM plc in its purchase of Business Journals, Inc.
• UBM plc in its $972 million acquisition of Advanstar
• Interactive Data Corporation in its acquisition by Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus
• React2Media, a global performance marketing company, in its sale to Antevenio (Spain)