Nathan Whitaker

Nathan's recent experience includes advising:

Private Equity

• The Veritas Capital Vantage Fund and its various portfolio companies in numerous acquisitions
• Veritas Capital and Epiq Solutions on their US$1.1 billion sale of Epiq Solutions to TTM Technologies
• Leonard Green & Partners on acquiring West Shore Homes Holdings, the parent company of West Shore Home, which provides residential home improvement and remodeling services
• A PE fund on its US$2billion acquisition of a minority equity interest in a Indiana-based utility company
• Marlin Equity Partners on its acquisition and financing of HotSchedules and its disposition of Bazaarvoice 
• A private equity sponsor on financing its acquisition of a portfolio company in the manufacturing and consumer products sector
• Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) on its US$3.9 billion acquisition of Columbia Property Trust, a provider of real estate investment management and advisory services
• CPP Investments and Encino Energy on the US$5.6 billion sale of Encino Acquisition Partners to EOG Resources
• A PE company on its US$150 million investment in a clean energy platform

Companies

• AeroVironment on its:
  • US$875 million common stock offering and US$650 million convertible senior notes offering
  • US$4.1 billion acquisition of BlueHalo
• Allen Family Digital on its US$120 million majority investment in BuzzFeed
• Allen Media Group on multiple financing and corporate transactions
• The Knot Worldwide on its acquisition of Zola
• Penguin Solutions on multiple financing and corporate transactions
• Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation on its ABL credit facilities and its US$112.7 million take-private acquisition by Worldwide Golf and Capitol Hill Group
• Golden State Foods on its senior secured credit facilities and on selling a controlling interest to Lindsay Goldberg
• PotlatchDeltic on its all-stock merger of equals with Rayonier, creating a combined company with a US$7.1 billion pro forma equity market capitalization
• Sobi on its US$1.7 billion acquisition of CTI BioPharma 
• Guidewire Software on its credit facilities, its US$600 million convertible senior notes offering, and its US$1.7 billion acquisition of hyperexponential
• A privately held growth company in the fashion retail sector in multiple cross-border debt refinancing and corporate restructuring transactions
• Health Catalyst on its divestiture of Vitalware to Med-Metrix
• IG Design Group Americas on its Chapter 11 filing and court-supervised sale process
• FAT Brands Inc., Twin Hospitality Group Inc., and 184 debtor subsidiaries in connection with the confirmation of their chapter 11 liquidating plan following an expedited Section 363 sale process that resulted in four separate asset sales of substantially all of the debtors’ assets, eliminating close to US$1 billion in debt across five securitization silos
• A large studio operating and production services company, in closing a senior secured delayed-draw incremental term loan facility
• A privately held manufacturer in the consumer products sector in forbearance arrangements with its creditors relating to its term loan and revolving credit facilities
• Iteris on its US$335 million take-private acquisition by Almaviva
• MANTL on its US$400 million acquisition by Alkami Technology
• Merus on its approximately US$8 billion all-cash acquisition by Genmab
• New Relic on its US$6.5 billion take-private acquisition by Francisco Partners and TPG 
• NEXT Insurance on its US$2.6 billion acquisition by Munich Re
• Doma Holdings on its take-private acquisition by Title Resources Group
• A confidential client operating in the technology space on its US$3billion+ acquisition of an AI transformation company
• NextGen Healthcare on its acquisition by Thoma Bravo