Richard Quay represents financial sponsors, their portfolio companies, and public and private strategic interests in high-profile, cross-border corporate transactions across a broad spectrum of industries.
Richard has helped some of the world’s most sophisticated financial sponsors and investment firms — including Apollo Global Management, CPPIB, Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, and Energy Capital Partners — navigate complex:

  • Mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and other dispositions
  • Large-cap private equity investments and leveraged buyouts
  • Co-investments and joint ventures
  • General corporate matters

He crafts creative solutions to quickly, efficiently, and effectively execute his clients’ business objectives for their most critical matters.

Richard’s experience includes representing:

  • Apollo Global Management in multiple transactions, including:
    • Its acquisition of Stream Data Centers, a leading developer and operator of hyperscale data center campuses
    • Its acquisition of The State Group, a leading provider of electrical, mechanical, robotics, and automation services
    • Its US$7.5 billion acquisition of certain telecommunications assets from Lumen Technologies
    • Its US$5 billion acquisition of Yahoo from Verizon*
    • Cowen Sustainable Advisors’ minority investment in its portfolio company, ecoATM*
    • Its preferred investment in Albertsons Companies*
  • Funds advised by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in multiple transactions, including:
    • A majority investment in Olsson, Inc., a leading engineering and design firm
    • Acquiring Apex Companies, a provider of water resource management and related environmental services
  • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) in its US$6.2 billion acquisition of ALLETE, a leading energy and regulated utility company
  • Hexion in:
    • Selling its phenolic resins and forest products division to Black Diamond Capital Management and Investindustrial Advisors Limited*
    • Corporate representation during its bankruptcy*
  • MPM Holdings in its sale to a Korean consortium of purchasers*
  • Firestone & Robertson Distilling in its sale to Pernod Richard USA*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Columbia Law School, 2011
  • AB, Princeton University, 2007