Richard R. Quay

richard.quay@lw.com

+1.212.906.2922

Profile

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.

Mr. Quay has helped some of the world’s most sophisticated financial sponsors — including Apollo Global Management, Searchlight Capital Partners, and Morgan Stanley — 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.

Experience

Mr. Quay’s experience includes representing:

Private Equity/Strategic M&A

Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in its acquisition of Apex Companies, a leading provider of end-to-end environmental consulting and engineering solutions, from Sentinel Capital Partners
Apollo in:
- 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’s minority investment in its portfolio company, ecoATM*
- Its preferred investment in Albertsons Companies*
- Its US$300 million investment in Cimpress*
Yahoo in selling certain assets to Limelight Networks*
Searchlight Capital Partners in:
- ForgeLight’s acquisition of Univision Holdings*
- The merger of Grupo Televisa’s US operations with Univision*
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*
Elysium Management in acquiring Perkins Restaurant & Bakery in a 363 sale*
Oaktree Capital Management in selling PulseR to The Jordan Company*
Firestone & Robertson Distilling in its sale to Pernod Richard USA*