Sidley is representing GIC, OMERS Infrastructure and Wren House in their purchase of Direct ChassisLink, Inc. (DCLI) from funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management and EQT. DCLI is one of the largest chassis lessors in the U.S. with over 151,000 marine and 100,000 domestic chassis in its fleet, DCLI operates out of strategic locations across key port and rail terminals in the U.S.
The Sidley team is led by M&A partner Christopher Barbuto and Energy and Infrastructure partner Cliff Vrielink. The Corporate and Energy and Infrastructure teams also include Samantha Seley, Ashley Moulder, Sabina Wahl, Brad Giacone, Austin Jacobs, and Konnor Rodriguez.
The financing for this transaction is led by Global Finance partners Angela Fontana and Herschel Hamner. The financing team also includes Sean Damm, Hunter Winsauer, and Forrest Brown (Global Finance).
Additional members of the Sidley transactional team includes Eric Winwood and Marian Fielding (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation); Sven De Knop, James Mendenhall, Andrew Shoyer, Grigore Alexandru, Justin Becker, Alessandra Moroni, and Nick Wiggins (Global Arbitration, Trade and Advocacy); Patrick Harrison, Karen Kazmerzak, Edward Sharon, Laurenz Bové, and Fiona Shajko (Antitrust); Laura Barzilai, Christian Brause, Ivy Jones, Rachel Kleinberg, Angela Richards, Richard Silverman, and Aaron Mitchell (Tax); Heather Palmer, Brittany Bolen, Maureen Crough, and Allen Braddock (Environmental); Ellen Pesch (OTC Derivatives); Raymond Atkins Ph.D., Marc Korman, and Matthew Cahill (Transportation); Johnny Skumpija (Capital Markets); Elizabeth McCloy and Will Otter (Real Estate); James Weiss, Natalie Chan, and Vera Iwankiw (Labor, Employment and Immigration); Ash Nagdev and Sheri Porath Rockwell (Privacy and Cybersecurity); Jennifer Coplan and E. Kyle Barnett (Technology and Life Sciences Transactions); Scott Goldstein (Insurance); Nathan Howell and Michael Kalan (Investment Funds); and Michael Mann, Robert Velevis, Timothy Kapshandy, and Mitchell Alleluia-Feinberg (Litigation).
