Latham & Watkins Advises Mister Car Wash in Completed US$3.1 Billion Take‑Private Acquisition by Leonard Green & Partners

Mister Car Wash, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCW), the nation’s leading car wash brand, announced the successful completion of its acquisition by investment funds managed by Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. in an all‑cash transaction, which implies a total enterprise value of the company of US$3.1 billion.

Latham & Watkins LLP represented Mister Car Wash in the transaction with a corporate deal team led by New York partners Paul Kukish, Andrew Elken, and Michael Vardanian, with associates Kyle Adams, Jordan Freisleben, William Anderson, and Andrew Zandomenego. Advice was also provided on tax matters by Chicago partners Joseph Kronsnoble and Michael Zucker, with assistance from Ce’Ondra Ellison; on employee benefits matters by New York partners Austin Ozawa and Alisa Hand, with associate Rebecca Fishbein; on labor and employment matters by Chicago partner Nineveh Alkhas, with associate Jocelyn Wexler; on intellectual property matters by New York counsel Carrie Girgenti, with associate Victoria Allen; on data privacy and cybersecurity matters by Bay Area partner Robert Blamires, with associate Kathryn Parsons‑Reponte; on finance matters by New York partner Joshua Tinkelman, with associate Donna Hope; on capital markets matters by Los Angeles/New York partner Greg Rodgers and Orange County partner Drew Capurro, with associates Jacob Walsh and Tony Noh; on public company representation matters by New York partner Ellen Smiley and Washington, D.C. partner William Hackett, with associate Sara Almousa; on real estate matters by New York partner Dara Denberg, with associate Tom Ficchi; on antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partners Ian Conner and David Brenneman, with assistance from Sabrina Feng; on environmental matters by Orange County partner Chris Norton; on anti‑corruption and anti‑bribery matters by Washington, D.C. partner Erin Brown Jones, with associate Catherine Yao; on trade controls matters by associate Eric Green; on FDI matters by Hamburg partner Jana Dammann de Chapto; and on securities and M&A litigation matters by New York partners Blair Connelly and Sarah Lightdale, Washington, D.C. partner Stephen Barry, and counsel Thomas Giblin, with associates Matthew Strand and Amanda Di.