Latham & Watkins Advises Antin Infrastructure Partners in Acquisition of Vigor Marine Group

Antin Infrastructure Partners, a leading private equity firm focused on infrastructure investments, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Vigor Marine Group, a leading provider of maintenance, repair, and overhaul services, as well as marine fabrication and services to the naval, defense, and commercial maritime sectors in the United States, from an affiliate of Lone Star Funds.

Latham & Watkins LLP represented Antin Infrastructure Partners in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by New York partner Alex Kelly, Washington, D.C. partner Nicholas Luongo, and New York partner Thomas Engelhardt, with associates Marc Klepner, Miles Gilhuly, Patrick O’Neal, Josh Barkow, and Reina Kern. Advice was provided on tax matters by New York partner Matthew Dewitz, with associates Arash Lotfi and Emmanuel Kassim; on employee benefits and compensation matters by Washington, D.C. partners Adam Kestenbaum and Nikhil Kumar, with associate Bryce Groce; on labor and employment matters by New York counsel Sandra Benjamin; on regulatory matters by Washington, D.C. partners Damara Chambers, James Barker, and Paul Rosen and counsel Ruchi Gill, with associates Stephen Keith, Matthew Crawford, and Alexander Perkowski; on antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partners Amanda Reeves and Peter Todaro, Brussels partner Tomas Nilsson, and counsel Philipp Studt, with associates Edd Rarity and Suhansi Perera and with assistance from Matthew Piehl; on environmental matters by Houston/Los Angeles partner Joshua Marnitz and counsel Hunter Kendrick, with associate Casey Kirk; on real estate matters by Chicago partner Rachel Bates and counsel Jeffrey Anderson; on intellectual property matters by Washington, D.C. partner Morgan Brubaker, with associates Daniel Donovan and Alexandra Gómez; on data privacy and cybersecurity matters by Washington, D.C. partner Clayton Northouse, with associate Sarah Zahedi; on government contracts matters by Washington, D.C. partner Dean Baxtresser, with associate Megan Rohn; on anti-bribery and anti-corruption matters by Washington, D.C. partner Joseph Bargnesi; on finance matters by associate Henry Colocotronis; on insurance matters by Los Angeles partners Drew Levin and Harrison White, with associate Enrique Covarrubias; and on FCC matters by Washington, D.C. partner Elizabeth Park, with assistance from Bradley Bourne.