Jeffrey L. Kochian

Jeff’s M&A experience includes:

• Apollo Global Management in various transactions, including:
  
  • its investment in Alorica Inc.
  • its acquisition of EmployBridge
  • its US$1.93 billion acquisition of Great Canadian Gaming Corp.
  • its acquisition of Great Wolf Resorts, Inc.
  • Hughes Communications, a portfolio company of Apollo, in its US$1.3 billion sale to EchoStar Corporation
• Alden Global Capital in its acquisition of Tribune Publishing Company
• DataSite Global Corporation (f/k/a Merrill Corporation) in various transactions, including:
  
  • its sale to CapVest Partners
  • the sale of its financial and nonfinancial printing businesses to Toppan Leefung
  • the sale of its real estate and franchise business to Xpressdocs Holdings
  • the sale of VITAC Corporation to The Gores Group
• Diamondback Energy in various transactions, including:
  
  • its US$9.2 billion acquisition of Energen Corporation
  • its US$2.2 billion acquisition of QEP Resources
• Durational Capital and The Jordan Company in their acquisition of Bojangles’
• Kingston Technology, as a member of a consortium led by Bain Capital, in the US$18 billion acquisition of Toshiba Memory Corporation(n/k/a Kioxia Corporation)
• Spire Inc. (f/k/a Laclede, Inc.) in a number of transactions, including:
  
  • its US$1.6 billion acquisition of an Alabama gas utility company from Energen and the related debt and equity financings
  • the acquisition of EnergySouth, Inc., the parent company of Mobile Gas
• Starboard Value Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its US$3.4 billion merger with Cyxtera Technologies
• S.A.C. Capital Advisors in a private placement that helped launch S.A.C. Re, Ltd., a Bermuda-based reinsurer whose founding investors include Steven A. Cohen and Capital Z. Partners III, and in the subsequent sale of S.A.C. Re’s operating assets

*The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.