Sidley is representing Colliers (NASDAQ and TSX: CIGI) in its strategic investment in Rockwood Capital, LLC (Rockwood), a U.S. real estate investment management firm with more than US$12 billion of assets under management. Colliers will acquire a 65% stake in Rockwood, with the balance of the equity retained by Rockwood’s senior leadership team. Colliers is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company currently with US$57 billion of assets under management.
The Sidley team was led by New York corporate partners Michael Gordon and Ayo Badejo. The team also included: David Zhao, Christian Bennardo, James Donnelly, Jerry Ford II, and Ashley Wong (corporate); Laurin Blumenthal Kleiman and Victoria Anglin (Investment Funds); Elizabeth McCloy and Will Otter (Real Estate); Eric Wolf, Gregory Matisoff, and Ryan McLeod (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation); Eric Kauffman and James Weiss (Labor, Employment and Immigration); Kristen Smith (Global Finance); Scott Goldstein (Insurance); Ash Nagdev and Sasha Hondagneu-Messner (Privacy and Cybersecurity); Lauren Grau and Dina Kang (Technology and Life Sciences Transactions); Maureen Crough and Allen Braddock (Environmental); Dominique Gallego, Eric Grosshandler, and Christian Molander-Barraza (Tax); Martin Jackson, James Mendenhall, Grigore Alexandru, and Justin Becker (Global Arbitration, Trade and Advocacy); and Marissa Alter-Nelson, Alex Kaplan, and Cassandra Liu (Litigation).
