Thomas A. Engelhardt

thomas.engelhardt@lw.com

+1.212.906.1878

Profile

Thomas Engelhardt represents clients on a broad range of M&A and private equity transactions.

Thomas draws on his cross-industry experience to advise private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, and strategic businesses across the investment life cycle, including in connection with:

Mergers and acquisitions
Sales, dispositions, and carve-outs
Controlling and minority investments
Reorganizations
General corporate matters

Thomas focuses on delivering practical, solutions-oriented advice and leveraging the firm’s global platform to deliver the resources clients need for successful transactions.

During law school, Thomas served as a notes and comments editor of the St. John’s Law Review.

Experience

Thomas’ experience includes advising:

American Renal Associates (NYSE: ARA) on its take-private sale to Nautic Partners
ArcLight Capital Partners on multiple transactions, including its:
- Acquisition of Middletown Energy Center (a 484 MW power plant in Butler County, OH) from a consortium of sellers
- Acquisition of Lordstown Energy Center (a 940 MW power plant in Warren, OH) from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
- Acquisition of a 160 MW onshore wind farm in the Midland Basin in TX
- Acquisition of a majority interest in Kleen Energy Systems (a 620 MW power plant in Middletown, CT) from Sojitz Corporation, Osaka Gas, and Kyuden International
- Sale of Associated Asphalt to Ergon
- Sale of a minority interest in the Perdido Regional Host (a deepwater spar platform in the Gulf of Mexico) to Third Coast
The Aspen Group, a portfolio company of Leonard Green & Partners, Ares Management, and American Securities, on its acquisitions of ClearChoice and AZPetVet and subsequent equity financings
Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, and its portfolio company Applegreen, on the acquisition of HMSHost’s US motorways business
CI Capital Partners on multiple transactions, including its acquisition of SavATree and its sales of Material Handling Solutions to Harvest Partners and Tech Air to Airgas*
CPA Global, a portfolio company of Leonard Green & Partners, on its sale to Clarivate
Expera Specialty Solutions, a portfolio company of KPS Capital Partners, on its sale to Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj*
FirstLight Fiber, a portfolio company of Oak Hill Capital Partners, on its acquisitions of Finger Lakes Technologies Group and 186 Communications and its sale to Antin Infrastructure Partners*
Gulf Oil, a portfolio company of ArcLight Capital Partners, on its sale of four refined products terminals to Global Partners and the sale of its marketing business and US trademarks to RaceTrac
Monarch Landscape Companies, a portfolio company of One Rock Capital Partners, on its sale to Audax
Searchlight Capital Partners on its controlling investment in Sightline Payments, its take-private acquisition of Hemisphere Media Group (NASDAQ: HMTV) and Hemisphere’s sale of Pantaya to TelevisaUnivision
Sightline Payments on its acquisition of JOINGO and several equity financing rounds
Taylor Morrison Home Corp. (NYSE: TMHC) on its acquisition of AV Homes (NASDAQ: AVHI)*
WPP plc on multiple transactions, including carve-out sales by Blue State Digital and Triad Digital Media, its sale of a majority interest in Kantar to Bain Capital, the restructuring of Wunderman Thompson, and its acquisition of XumaK*