Douglas P. Warner

Doug’s clients include: American Securities; AMP Capital; Centerbridge; CPP Investments; CVC; EQT; GI Partners; J.C. Flowers; Lee Equity; Oak Hill Capital; OMERS; PSP Investments; Searchlight; Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners); and TPG.

Doug is among only five lawyers ranked Band 1 for Private Equity in New York by Chambers USA and Private Equity USA by Chambers Global, where he is described as “a true expert” who is sought after by clients for his “tremendous knowledge of the marketplace and straightforward approach” and “is one of the best M&A lawyers in the country.” He is also recognized among an elite list of “Leading Lawyers” for Private Equity Buyouts by Legal 500 US and as a “Market Leader” for Private Equity in the U.S. by IFLR1000. Doug has been shortlisted as Private Equity “Lawyer of the Year” for IFLR1000’s 2021 United States Awards. He is included in Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” list and was named a 2015 Private Equity “MVP” by Law360. Doug is also consistently recognized by Chambers Global, Practical Law Company and Best Lawyers in America. He serves on the Advisory Board of Practical Law Company.

Experience

• Lee Equity Partners in sale of its interests in Simplicity Group Holdings, Inc. to SkyKnight Capital, L.P. and Dragoneer Investment Group (2024)
• Reservoir Capital Group, LLC in sale of its majority stake in ClearCaptions LLC to CC Opportunities, LLC (2024)
• American Securities in its approximately $1.9 billion sale of Paragon Medical to AMETEK, Inc. (2023)
• PSP Investments, together with EQT Active Core Infrastructure Fund (a fund managed by EQT AB), in its acquisition of Radius Global Infrastructure, Inc., in a transaction that implies a Radius Global Infrastructure enterprise value of approximately $3 billion (2023)
• York Holdings II Ltd and York Holdings III Ltd (owned by consortium CPP Investments, Blackstone, GIC Special Investments and Thomson Reuters) in its $2 billion sale of its minority stake in London Stock Exchange to Microsoft (2023)
• Searchlight Capital Partners and its portfolio company Integrated Power Services LLC in IPS’s acquisition of Evans Enterprises, Inc. (2023)
• Lee Equity Partners in its sale of Cadent Technology, Inc. (2023)
• EQT Partners in its strategic investment in United Talent Agency (2022)
• CPP Investments, together with Blackstone, in the acquisition of Advarra, Inc., in a deal that implies an Advarra enterprise value of $5 billion (2022)
• Antin Infrastructure Partners in its pending acquisitions of Empire Access and North Penn Telephone Co Inc (together known as Empire) (2022)
• TPG Pace Solutions Corp., a SPAC sponsored by TPG Pace Group, in its $4.5 billion business combination with Vacasa LLC (2021)
• CVC Capital Partners in its acquisition of a significant minority stake in CFGI, in a transaction that valued CFGI at $1.9 billion (2021)
• J.C. Flowers, together with Bain Capital and others, in the $100 million acquisition of a minority stake in Insigneo Financial Group LLC (2021)
• Storytel AB, a publicly traded portfolio company of EQT, in its $135 million acquisition of Audiobooks.com (2021)
• J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of TRICOR, LLC (2021)
• Searchlight Capital Partners, together with co-investors, in the acquisition of Integrated Power Services, LLC (2021)
• EQT Partners in its sale of Dorner Manufacturing Corporation (2021)
• EQT Infrastructure in its sale of Synagro Technologies, Inc. (2021)
• American Securities in its acquisition of LaserShip, Inc. (2021)
• Lee Equity Partners, together with Twin Point Capital, in the acquisition of Alliance Corporation (2021)
• J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of a majority stake in iLendingDIRECT (2021)
• Lee Equity Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Unlimited Technology, Inc. (2021)
• Ardian in its acquisition of a majority stake in Florida Food Products, Inc., in a transaction that valued Florida Food at more than $1 billion (2021)
• American Securities and its portfolio company LaserShip, Inc. in its acquisition of OnTrac Logistics, Inc. (2021)
• CPP Investments, as a participant together with Alphabet and Silver Lake, in the $2.5 billion investment in Waymo LLC (a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.) (2021)
• TurnKey Vacation Rentals, Inc. in its merger with Vacasa LLC (2021)
• J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of Ariel Re, the reinsurance business of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. (2020)
• GI Partners in its acquisition of Vast Broadband (2020)
• Oak Hill Capital and its portfolio company EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants (EPIC) in the merger of EPIC and JenCap Holdings, LLC (a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group) (2020)
• American Securities in its $825 million acquisition of the Life Sciences Business of NN, Inc. (2020)
• CPP Investments in the merger of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. with Kronos Incorporated in a deal that valued the combined company at a $22 billion enterprise value (2020)
• CPP Investments, together with Permira and GIC, in the acquisition of a majority stake in Lytx, Inc., in a transaction that valued Lytx at more than $2.5 billion (2020)
• CPP Investments, together with Silver Lake and Mubadala Investment Company, as lead investors, in the $3 billion first external investment round for Waymo LLC (2020)
• PSP Investments in connection with the merger of Loral Space & Communications and Telesat Canada to form a new publicly-traded Telesat Corporation (2020)
• PSP Investments, together with Searchlight Capital Partners, WaveDivision Capital, BCI and CPP Investments, in the consortium's $1.4 billion acquisition of the Northwest operations and assets of Frontier Communications Corporation (2020)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners), together with PIMCO, in the acquisition of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase shares of common stock of Velocity Financial, Inc. (2020)
• TPG Global in the acquisition by TPG Pace Holdings Corp., a SPAC sponsored by TPG Pace Group, of the stock of Accel Entertainment, Inc., with the resulting entity having an initial enterprise value of approximately $884 million (2019)
• Centerbridge Partners in its sale of P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. (2019)
• Centerbridge Partners in its sale of Pei Wei Asian Diner LLC (2019)
• J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of a majority stake in Vericity, Inc. (2019)
• CPP Investments in a consortium that also includes Blackstone and GIC, together with Thomson Reuters Corporation, in the $27 billion sale of Refinitiv (2019)
• CPP Investments in a consortium that also includes Hellman & Friedman, Blackstone and GIC, in the consortium's $11 billion take-private of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. (2019)
• PSP Investments, together with Lightyear Capital, in their sale of Advisor Group to Reverence Capital Partners (2019)
• PSP Investments, as co-investor, in an Onex-led $1.8 billion investment in Convex Group Ltd. (2019)
• PSP Investments in its minority investment in Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. (2019)
• Avolon Holdings Limited and its parent Bohai Capital Holding Co. in Bohai's sale of a 30% stake in Avolon to ORIX Aviation Systems Limited based on an enterprise value of $23.7 billion (2018)
• TPG Capital in its minority investment in Rodan + Fields (2018)
• EQT Partners and its portfolio company Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (n/k/a WS Audiology A/S) in its acquisition of TruHearing, Inc. (2018)
• J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC from Flexpoint Ford and management (2018)
• CPP Investments in a consortium that also includes Blackstone and GIC, in the consortium’s acquisition of a 55% stake in Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business (n/k/a Refinitiv), valued by the transaction at $20 billion (2018)
• Centerbridge Partners in the A$400 million sale of Billabong International Limited to Boardriders, Inc. (2018)
• WPEngine, Inc. in the $250 million sale of a majority stake to Silver Lake Partners (2018)
• Antin Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of FirstLight Fiber (2018)
• Oak Hill Capital and its portfolio company, EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, in its acquisition of Integro Holdings Inc. (2018)
• Aurora Resurgence Management Partners and Equity Group Investments in the sale of SIRVA, Inc. (2018)
• Centerbridge Partners and its portfolio company True Food Kitchen in True Foods’ receipt of a minority investment by Ms. Oprah Winfrey (2018)
• Centerbridge Partners and its portfolio company CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries, Inc. in CraftWorks’ acquisition of Logan’s Roadhouse (2018)
• American Securities in its acquisition of MW Industries, Inc. (2017)
• AMP Capital Investors in its acquisition of ITS ConGlobal (2017)
• CVC Capital Partners in its acquisition and sale of Cunningham Lindsey U.S. Inc. (2012, 2017)
• Lee Equity Partners, indirectly through InterLuxe Holdings LLC, in the acquisition of certain entities which comprise the Mackage business (2017)
• Oak Hill Capital Partners in its acquisition of EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants (2017)
• Oak Hill Capital Partners and its portfolio company EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants in EPIC’s acquisition of Frenkel & Company (2017)
• PSP Investments in a PIPE investment in Virtu Financial, Inc. to finance in part Virtu's $1.4 billion acquisition of KCG Holdings, Inc. (2017)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition of Ideal Tridon Holdings, Inc. (2017)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) and its portfolio company Teasdale Foods, Inc. in Teasdale’s acquisition of Rudy’s Food Products Inc. (2017)
• Avolon Holdings Limited (a subsidiary of Bohai Financial Investment Holding Co., Ltd. (f/k/a Bohai Leasing Co., Ltd.)) in its $10 billion acquisition of the aircraft leasing business of CIT Group Inc. (2016)
• EQT Infrastructure in its acquisition of Direct ChassisLink Inc. (2016)
• J.C. Flowers & Co., as co-leader of an investment group, in that group's acquisition of CitiFinancial Canada Inc. (n/k/a Fairstone Financial Inc.) (2016)
• J.C. Flowers & Co. in its acquisition of a controlling interest in ELMC Group, LLC (n/k/a ELMC Risk Solutions, LLC) (2016)
• Kendra Scott Design in its sale of a significant minority stake to Berkshire Partners (2016)
• Lee Equity Partners in its acquisition of K-MAC Investors LLC (n/k/a K-MAC Enterprises, Inc.) (2016)
• OMERS Private Equity, together with Harvest Partners, in the approximately $1 billion take-private acquisition of Epiq Systems, Inc. and its combination with Document Technologies Inc. (2016)
• PSP Investments in a Blackstone Group-led $6.1 billion take-private of Team Health Holdings, Inc. (2016)
• PSP Investments, as part of a global investor group, in the acquisition of ownership stakes in AlixPartners (2016)
• PSP Investments in its acquisition with Lightyear Capital of AIG Advisor Group Inc. (2016)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition of Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing Company (2016)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition of Electric Guard Dog (n/k/a AMAROK, LLC) (2016)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) and its portfolio company Teasdale Foods, Inc. in Teasdale’s acquisition of Mesa Foods, Inc. (2016)
• TPG, through its affiliate Pace Holdings Corp., in the business combination with Playa Hotels & Resorts B.V., a transaction valued at approximately $1.75 billion (2016)
• TPG Growth and TPG Special Situations Partners in their acquisition of a minority stake in Spotify Technology S.A. (2016)
• Avolon Holdings Limited (at the time a portfolio company of Cinven Partners, CVC Capital and Oak Hill Capital) in its $7.6 billion sale to Bohai Leasing Co., Ltd. (n/k/a Bohai Financial Investment Holding Co., Ltd.) (2015)
• Funds affiliated with Blackstone Tactical Opportunities (an affiliate of Blackstone) in a strategic investment in The PMI Group, Inc. together with a commitment to provide working capital financing in exchange for warrants and certain other rights (2015)
• Centerbridge Partners in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Senvion SE (2015)
• Centerbridge Partners in its acquisition of KIK Custom Products, Inc. (2015)
• EQT Infrastructure in its sale of Restaurant Technologies, Inc. (2015)
• EQT Infrastructure in its acquisition of WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems (2015)
• J.C. Flowers & Co, as lead investor, in a Series C financing for Kreditech Holding SSL GmbH (2015)
• Lee Equity Partners in its sale of PDR Network, LLC (2015)
• PSP Investments in its investments in XPO Logistics (2014, 2015)
• Centerbridge Partners and its portfolio company Capmark Financial Group Inc. (n/k/a Bluestem Group Inc.) in Capmark’s $565 million acquisition of Bluestem Brands, Inc. (2014)
• Centerbridge Partners in its $1.2 billion acquisition of IPC Systems, Inc. (2014)
• CVC Capital Partners in its proposed $1 billion equity financing for the unsolicited offer by Endurance Specialty Holdings, Ltd. for Aspen Insurance Holdings, Ltd. (2014)
• InterLuxe Holdings LLC, a platform company owned by Lee Equity Partners and certain fashion industry executives for the purpose of acquiring or investing in apparel brands, in its acquisition of JWU LLC (2014)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition of FeraDyne Outdoors (2014)
• Centerbridge Partners in its substantial minority investment in syncreon Holdings Limited (2013)
• Lee Equity Partners in its acquisition of Cross MediaWorks, Inc. (2013)
• Centerbridge Partners, via Centerbridge Capital Partners II, L.P., in its $1.1 billion take-private of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc. (2012)
• Lee Equity Partners LLC in its acquisition of Captive Resources, LLC (2012)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition of the equity interests of HCTec, LLC (2012)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition and disposition of ArrMaz Chemicals (2008, 2012)
• CVC Capital Partners in its proposed acquisition of ConvergExGroup (2011)
• Lee Equity Partners LLC in its investment in Skopos Financial, LLC (2011)
• Oak Hill Capital Partners in the $4.2 billion sale of RSC Holdings (2011)
• PSP Investments in its equity participation in the $6.3 billion take private of Kinetic Concepts (2011)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition of a significant interest in Velvet, Inc. (2011)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) and its portfolio company ZeroChaos, Inc. in ZeroChaos’ acquisition of WorkForce Logic (2011)

Doug was one of the group of partners that founded the Firm’s London office in 1996 and was based in London from 1996 to 2001.