David M. Grinberg

• Tengram Capital Partners – sale of HRB Brands to Sodalis Group
• Hero Mighty Patch brand – US$630 million sale to Church & Dwight.
• Amika and Eva NYC – sale to Bansk Group.
• Minka Lighting – sale to Ferguson. 
• FocalPoint Securities – sale to B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ: RILY) for total consideration of up to US$175 million. 
• Henkels & McCoy Group – US$600 million sale to MasTec (NYSE: MTZ).
• TheraBreath – US$580 million sale to Church & Dwight. 
• Bauer Media Group – sale of Bauer’s U.S. publishing business to A360 Media.
• Pacifica Beauty – sale of a minority interest to Brentwood Associates.
• Osea International Inc. – minority equity investment by CAVU Venture Partners.
• Vegamour – US$80 million minority equity investment by General Atlantic.
• Fundamental Advisors –  acquisition of MMA Capital Holdings for US$161.7 million.
• EW GROUP – acquisition of Hygiena, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus.
• Exceleration Music – formation and equity investment from Richmond Hill Investment Co.
• Advanced Bifurcation Systems – Series A equity financing led by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Abiomed.
• Certain Principals of Bel Air Investment Advisors – Hightower’s acquisition of Bel Air Investment Advisors from Fiera Capital Corporation
• Millie Bobby Brown and the Brown Family – acquisition of Florence by Mills from beauty incubator Beach House Group
• AAE Aerospace – sale to Karman Missile & Space Systems, a portfolio company of Trive Capital.
• Cloudbreak Health, LLC – pending business combination with GigCapital2 (NYSE: GIX), a SPAC, and GigCapital2’s concurrent business combination with UpHealth Holdings, Inc., one of the largest national and international digital healthcare providers, in a combined deal valued at approximately US$1.35 billion.
• VWM Analytics – sale to the global consulting firm J.S. Held, a portfolio company of Kelso & Company.
• 9to5 – sale to Flokk AS, a portfolio company of Triton Partners.
• Drunk Elephant – US$845 million acquisition by Shisheido America Corporation.
• International Vitamin Corporation – strategic joint venture with GNC Holdings.
• Coola Suncare – in its sale of a majority equity stake to an affiliate of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
• Advantel Networks – sale to ConvergeOne Holdings.
• Lime Crime – sale of a majority interest to Tengram Capital Partners.
• Bauer Media USA (a wholly owned subsidiary of Bauer Media Group) – sale of its celebrity group along with its teenage and kids group (print and digital properties for 13 brands, including In Touch, Life & Style, J-14 and Teen Boss magazines) to American Media Inc.
• BearTooth Advisors – sale to Houlihan Lokey by Riverstone Capital Services and Riverstone Europe.
• Private investors – acquisition of substantially all of the assets of TMX Engineering and Manufacturing Corporation.
• NewNet Communication Technologies (a Skyview Capital portfolio company) – sale of its wholly owned subsidiary Volt Delta Resources to an affiliate of ESW Capital.
• Kate Somerville – sale to Unilever.
• Kjaer Weis – sale of a minority interest to Waldencast.
• Pacifica Beauty – sale of a minority interest to Alliance Consumer Growth.
• Tata Harper – equity and debt financings.
• Adastria Co. Ltd. – acquisition of Velvet LLC, owner of the Velvet by Graham and Spencer label, from Snow Phipps. 
• Blue Box Toys – acquisition of the assets of Infantino, a subsidiary of Step2 Holdings (Ares Capital portfolio company).
• Audeze – investment by Warner Music Group; sale of a minority interest to Edifier Technology Company.
• Enhanced Vision Systems – sale to Freedom Scientific, a portfolio company of Vector Capital.
• Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman LLP – sale of substantially all of its assets to a newly created affiliate of Focus Financial Partners, as well as its entry into a management arrangement with such affiliate in connection with the sale; acquisition of WG&S, LLP; acquisition of Flynn Family Office LLC; acquisition of Skeet Kaye Hopkins LLP.
• Intrepid Investment Bankers – role as exclusive financial adviser to Ambry Genetics on its US$1 billion sale to Konica Minolta. 
• Forwardline – sale of a majority interest to Vistria Partners. 
• Tang Media Partners – acquisition of Open Road Films from AMC Entertainment and Regal Entertainment Group.
• Advatech Pacific, Inc. – sale of substantially all of the assets of its Electronics and Communications division to General Dynamics Mission Systems.
• Space-Lok – sale to Novaria Group.
• Invagen Pharmaceuticals/Exelan Pharmaceuticals – US$550 million sale to Cipla Limited.
• Parcel Pro – sale to UPS.
• Account Control Technology Holdings – US$175 million leveraged buyout of Convergent Resources Holdings, LLC from private equity fund Silver Oak Partners.
• Navajo Nation/Navajo Transitional Energy Company – acquisition of BHP Billiton New Mexico Coal, a BHP Billiton entity.
• Stamps.com – US$215 million cash acquisition of Endicia from Newell Rubbermaid; US$50 million cash acquisition of ShipStation plus performance-linked earn-out consideration in common stock; US$22 million cash acquisition of ShipWorks.
• Heritage Oaks Bancorp/Heritage Oaks Bank – US$60 million cash and stock acquisition of Mission Community Bancorp and its wholly owned subsidiary Mission Community Bank; US$30 million acquisition of Coast National Bank’s Morro Bay branch.
• Houlihan Lokey – cash and stock acquisition of Milestone Advisors; cash and stock acquisition of Red Pine Advisors; cash and stock acquisition of Archpoint Corp.; cash and stock acquisition of MESA; strategic investment in Bridge Strategy Group.
• Psyop Media Company – equity investment by Astro Overseas; “partnership freeze-out” transaction and restructuring; acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Look Effects.
• OneTitle Holdings – sale of a minority interest to White Mountains Capital.  
• Rostrum Records – acquisition of recorded music masters and related assets from Cantora Records.
• Amped Wireless – sale to DPI. 
• Bermuda Import-Export – sale to Architectural Granite & Marble, a portfolio company of Trive Capital.
• Deluxe Entertainment Services Group – acquisition of Colorworks from Sony Pictures Digital Productions; sale of substantially all of the assets of Deluxe Media Management and Deluxe Media Management and Retail Sales to Vision Entertainment Holdings and FrontEnd Holdings.
• Triton Digital Media – acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Liquid Compass.
• Valutech Outsourcing – sale of a majority interest to Clover Technologies Group, a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital.
• Wedbush – sale of substantially all of the assets to Grandpoint Bank.
• Adaptive Media – sale to Mimvi.
• TELSCAPE Communications – acquisition of Sage Telecom.
• Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals – US$80 million cash and debt acquisition of Sucampo AG, a Swiss-based patent holding company, and its wholly owned subsidiary Sucampo AG Japan, a patent maintenance company.
• Special Committee of Board of Directors of Pacific Union Bank – US$300 million cash and stock acquisition by Hanmi Financial.
• RIA Envia – US$510 million cash and stock acquisition by Euronet.
• Kinecta Federal Credit Union – US$45 million cash acquisition of Navicert Financial Inc. d/b/a Nix Check Cashing.
• Paskal Lighting – sale to Production Resource Group.
• BMG Rights Management GmbH – US$300 million acquisition of Bug Music.
• CC Metals and Alloys – outside counsel to minority shareholder in acquisition by Optima Group.
• Danmer – sale of a majority interest to MCM Capital; management-leveraged buyout from majority shareholders; acquisition of L&L Custom Shutters.
• Ridgeline Energy – acquisition of a solar photovoltaic electricity-generating project from Alternative Energy Group and Scatec Solar North America.
• FdG Associates – sale of portfolio company Vintage Nurseries to minority shareholder.
• Project Playlist and Playlist.com – exit from bankruptcy and sale to sponsor group and private equity fund.
• S.B. Restaurant Co. – outside counsel to a group of dissenting shareholders.
• Patient Safety Technologies – outside counsel to a group of private equity investors and new management team in a hostile-turned-friendly control investment.
• Moelis Capital Partners – US$200 million recapitalization of Opportunity Bancshares.
• Moelis & Company – role as financial adviser in the following transactions: Ascent Media Corporation’s US$70 million sale of its creative services and media services business units to Deluxe Entertainment Services; Ascent Media Corporation’s US$120 million sale of its content distribution business unit to Encompass Digital Media.
• Concord Music Group – acquisition of assets and music rights from Rounder Records Corporation and its affiliates; US$90 million acquisition of Fantasy, including equity financing provided by Tailwind Capital Partners and debt financing provided by HSBC; US$15 million acquisition of Telarc International.
• Channel M – stock acquisition by PlayNetwork.
• Boat International Media Limited – cash acquisition of ShowBoats International.
• Sonus Networks – activist stockholder defense.
• AEG Events & Media – cash and equity acquisition of ThemeStar Limited.
• Parco – cash acquisition of Hydr-O-Seal.
• First Financial Bancorp – US$538 million cash acquisition of Peoples Community Bank; cash acquisition of certain branches of Irwin Union Bank; cash acquisition of certain branches of Flagstar Bank.
• Image Entertainment – US$130 million cash acquisition by a private investor group.
• NorthWestern Corporation – US$2.2 billion cash acquisition by Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Limited.
• QAD Inc. – repurchase of 2.6 million shares of common stock in a “modified Dutch auction” tender offer. 
• Placer Sierra Bancshares – US$650 million stock acquisition by Wells Fargo & Company.
• Modern Health Laboratories – cash acquisition by Guthy-Renker Corporation.
• Hawthorne Financial Corporation – US$500 million cash acquisition by Commercial Capital Bancorp.
• Central Pacific Financial – US$425 million non-negotiated cash and stock takeover by CB Bancshares.
• Cendant Mortgage – US$155 million acquisition of Merrill Lynch’s mortgage subsidiary. 
• Heritage Commerce Corp. – group of dissenting shareholders in a proxy contest at the 2004 annual meeting.
• First Continental Bank – US$50 million sale to UCBH Holdings.
• SunTrust Banks – US$14.7 billion hostile exchange offer and proxy contest for Wachovia Corp.
• North Fork Bancorporation – US$2 billion hostile exchange offer and proxy contest for Dine Bancorp.
• Pacific Crest Capital – US$135 million cash acquisition by Pacific Capital Bancorp.
• Cedars Bank – US$120 million cash acquisition by First Community Bancorp.
• Slippery Rock Financial Corp. – US$80 million cash and stock acquisition by F.N.B. Corp. 
• Commercial Bank of New York – $175 million cash acquisition by North Fork Bancorporation.

*Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.

• Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Corporate Counsel
• Member, American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions.
• Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association