Lukas Kutilek delivers transactional tax advice in the context of restructurings, M&A, and private equity investments.
Lukas leverages technical precision and extensive experience across deal structures to represent US and non-US corporations, private equity funds, investment banks, and other public and private companies in:
In-court and out-of-court restructurings, reorganizations, and workouts, including cross-border structures, creditor-side tax issues, and the intersection of tax and financing
US and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions
Liability management exercises
Spinoffs
Public and private financing transactions
Forming and operating joint ventures, funds, and SPACs
Lukas frequently speaks on tax-related topics in the US and abroad, including at the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the International Fiscal Association, the University of Michigan Law School, and Charles University, Faculty of Law. In 2024, Lukas served as the Chair of Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)’s Under 10 Committee.
Experience
Lukas’ experience at and prior to joining Latham includes representing :
Restructuring/Bankruptcy
Pine Gate Renewables in its US$7 billion chapter 11 restructuring
Exela Technologies BPA in its acquisition by XBP Europe in connection with its emergence from chapter 11
CareerBuilder + Monster in its chapter 11 sale process
Altice USA in a landmark US$1 billion asset-backed loan facility secured primarily by hybrid-fiber coaxial network assets
An institutional investor consortium in a private capital transaction for Reimagined Parking
Independence Contract Drilling in its emergence from chapter 11
Vroom in its successful recapitalization through voluntary chapter 11 proceedings
CommScope in its US$4.15 billion strategic refinancing
Afiniti in successfully completing its recapitalization following court approvals in Bermuda and a US chapter 15 proceeding
2U in its financial restructuring and emergence from chapter 11
JOANN, a leading national retailer of sewing, arts, and crafts, in its prepackaged chapter 11 restructuring of over US$1 billion of funded debt
National CineMedia Inc. in the restructuring of National CineMedia LLC through its chapter 11 bankruptcy
MD Helicopters in connection with its chapter 11 bankruptcy and sale transaction, selected as Distressed M&A Deal of the Year (over US$100M) in the 17th Annual Turnaround Awards
Robertshaw US Holding Corp. and its US subsidiaries in their chapter 11 cases
The creditors in connection with GTT Communications’ US$3.5 billion cross-border chapter 11 case
Vital Pharmaceuticals, the maker of Bang Energy beverage, and certain affiliates in their chapter 11 proceedings and their sale to an affiliate of Monster Beverage Corporation
Audacy in a variety of liability management transactions in its chapter 11 case
J.Crew Group, one of the nation’s premier clothing retailers with approximately US$2 billion in funded debt and 13,000 employees, and its debtor-affiliates in their pre-arranged chapter 11 cases
syncreon Group Holdings B.V. and its affiliates in its groundbreaking, cross-border balance sheet restructuring involving approximately US$1.1 billion of funded debt, effected through the first-ever use of a pre-arranged English scheme to restructure debt issued by a US-based global enterprise; recognized as the 2020 International Company Transaction of the Year by the Turnaround Management Association
Trinseo PLC, an Irish-incorporated specialty material solutions provider, in its restructuring of approximately US$3.0 billion of funded debt
ModivCare Inc., a technology-enabled healthcare services company, and its domestic affiliates in their chapter 11 cases in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, restructuring more than US$1.4 billion of funded debt
Private Equity and M&A
Reap Technologies in its sale to Payward
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and BroadStreet Partners in BroadStreet’s partnership with Ethos Capital, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, and White Mountains Insurance Group
FTMO in its acquisition of OANDA
US Anchors and the Garfield family in Kinderhook Industries’ acquisition of US Anchors
Sedgwick in a strategic investment by Altas Partners
Endeavor in its:
US$13 billion sale to Silver Lake
Acquisition of several MLB Professional Development League Clubs, as well as the creation of Diamond Baseball Holdings
Boldyn in its acquisition of Apogee Technology
Vacasa in its:
Strategic merger with Casago
US$4.5 billion merger with TPG Pace Solutions
The Carlyle Group in its:
Take-private acquisition of ManTech International at an enterprise value of approximately US$4.2 billion
US$787 million acquisition of CBAM Partners’ CLO business
Odyssey Investment Partners in Tysers’ £500 million sale to AUB Group Limited
One Rock in the acquisition of a US$500 million minority stake in Brightview
Binance.US in the US$500 million sale of Voyager Digital
Shift4 Payments in its US$300 million acquisition of The Giving Block
Hilton Worldwide Holdings in its US$210 million acquisition of Graduate Hotels
Maxim Integrated Products in its US$21 billion sale to Analog Devices
A global pharmaceutical company in its approximately US$13 billion sale of nearly all of its stake in a leading biotechnology company through a registered public offering and related share repurchase and in its up to US$470 million acquisition of Tidal Therapeutics
A co-investor in an Onex-led US$1.8 billion investment in Convex Group Ltd.
A principal shareholder in Telesat Canada in connection with the merger of Loral Space & Communications and Telesat Canada to form a new publicly traded Telesat Corporation
The UK government as part of a 50/50 consortium with Bharti Global Limited in the consortium’s acquisition, in a chapter 11 court-supervised sale process, of OneWeb Global Limited
Financings
Venture Global in its US$21 billion Plaquemines LNG project financing, consisting of a US$13.2 billion phase one investment and US$7.8 billion phase two investment
The lead arrangers and lenders in the financing for ICON's acquisition of PRA Health Sciences
The underwriters in ICON’s US$2 billion senior secured notes offering
Iron Mountain Incorporated in private offerings aggregating US$3.5 billion pursuant to Rule 144A of senior unsecured notes to repay existing indebtedness
The initial purchasers and arrangers in Hellman & Friedman portfolio company Verisure’s €1.6 billion financing consisting of senior secured notes and a senior secured credit facility
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
New York
Education
LL.M., New York University School of Law, 2021
JD, University of Michigan Law School, 2018 magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
Mgr., Charles University, Faculty of Law, 2015 summa cum laude
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