Jane Greyf advises private equity firms, their portfolio companies, and corporate clients in M&A deals and other complex transactions.

Ms. Greyf draws on her sophisticated market knowledge and commercial savvy to help clients maximize the value of their corporate transactions across a range of industries, including the energy, technology, and general industrials sectors. She has particular experience representing leveraged buyout sponsors, venture capital funds, hedge funds, and other private equity investors and portfolio companies. Ms. Greyf’s work also encompasses continuation funds and secondary transactions, as well as inbound investments into the United States by European and Asian funds.

Ms. Greyf also represents public and private companies in connection with corporate governance, securities law compliance, and general corporate matters.

Ms. Greyf’s representative experience includes:

M&A Transactions

  • ArcLight Capital Partners in its:
    • US$2 billion sale of Great River Hydro, an operator of 13 hydropower generating stations in the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, to HQI US Holding, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hydro-Québe
    • Sale of the Rolling Hills natural gas-fired power plant to LS Power
    • US$1.92 billion acquisition of PSEG’s 6,750-megawatt fossil generating portfolio
    • Acquisition of minority interests in Kleen Energy Systems, the owner of an energy generation facility
  • Leeds Equity Partners in a number of transactions, including its:
    • Carve-out acquisition of TalentNeuron, a provider of human capital data and insights subscription solutions, from Gartner, Inc.
    • Carve-out acquisition of Compliance Learning, Checkpoint Learning,  and West LegalEdcenter, continuing education platforms, from Thomson Reuters
    • Acquisition of 95 Percent Group, a provider of whole class and intervention literacy curriculum products and services
    • Acquisition and sale of Scaled Agile, a provider of software and systems development consulting services
    • Sale of BARBRI, a provider of bar review and bar exam preparation courses for law students
    • Acquisition of LRN, a provider of ethics and compliance (E&C) knowledge solutions
    • Acquisition of VitalSmarts, a provider of corporate training and leadership development services
  • Energy Capital Partners in a number of transactions, including its:
    • Sale of a 50% stake in Terra-Gen Power Holdings II, LLC, a 653-MW portfolio of wind, solar, and geothermal power generation projects, to First State Investments (FSI) and sale of the remaining stake to an ECP-sponsored continuation fund
    • Sale of Wheelabrator Technologies, an owner and operator of waste-to-energy facilities, to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
    • Acquisition of Convergent Energy and Power, a developer of energy storage assets
    • Acquisition of CenterPoint Energy Services, a retail natural gas trading business, from CenterPoint Energy
  • Ribbon Communications in its acquisition of ECI Telecom Group, an Israel-based global provider of ELASTIC network solutions to service providers, critical industries, and data center operators

GP-Led Secondary and Continuation Fund Transactions

  • Rockland Capital in the general partner-led secondary sale of certain power generation assets located in the PJM energy market region
  • Energy Capital Partners in its sale of Terra-Gen Power Holdings II, a 653-MW portfolio of wind, solar, and geothermal power generation projects, to its continuation fund and First Sentier Investors
  • Assured Investment Management in multiple transactions, including in its:
    • Sale of its interests in its portfolio of healthcare assets to its continuation fund
  • Platinum Equity in its sale of United Site Services (USS), a provider of portable sanitation and related site services, to Platinum Equity’s continuation fund 
  • Partners Group in multiple transactions, including in its:
    • Investment in a continuation fund managed by Leonard Green & Partners

Growth Equity Investments

  • Activant Capital in multiple transactions, including:
    • Equity investment in Better Holdco, a direct lender that provides online mortgage services
    • Equity investment in Bolt, a horizontally-integrated payments platform that provides for seamless checkout experiences
  • ClimeCo, a global company that focuses on developing and trading environmental commodities and advising clients on emerging environmental market solutions, in the over US$50 million investment round led by Warburg Pincus and The Heritage Group

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Columbia University School of Law, 1998
  • BA, New York University, 1995