Christopher R. Machera

Transactions that Chris has worked on include:

• Blackstone in its $300 million investment in DataDirect Networks
• Private Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and its portfolio company Omega Healthcare Management Services in an investment by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
• Blackstone in its preferred equity investment in Inhabit
• Goldman Sachs Alternatives in its $1.7 billion acquisition of Sila Services
• Aterian Investment Partners in its acquisition of Outlook Group
• HighPost Capital along with Charlesbank Capital Partners, in its investment in Front Row Group
• TruArc Partners LP in the sale of AI Fire in a transaction that implies an enterprise value over $1 billion
• Citation Capital in its acquisition of Aptive Environmental
• Growthcurve Capital in its acquisition of PureFacts Financial Solutions
• Goldman Sachs Alternatives in its $440 million investment in BrightNight
• Blackstone in its investment in Allied Benefit Systems
• Blackstone in its investment in Amarok
• Aterian Investment Partners and its portfolio company Vantedge Medical in its acquisition of Hobson & Motzer
• Blackstone and its portfolio company Certified Collectibles Group in its acquisition of James Spence Authentication
• Aterian Investment Partners in its sale of Stewart Tubular Products
• TPG and its portfolio company Morrow Sodali in its acquisition of Domestique 
• TruArc Partners in its acquisition of Watchtower Security
• TPG and its portfolio company Morrow Sodali in its acquisition of Powerscourt
• GHK Capital Partners in its acquisition of Johns-Byrne
• Goldman Sachs Asset Management in its $1.04 billion equity investment and subordinated debt financing in World Insurance Associates
• Motive Partners in its investment in Splitit 
• Blackstone and its portfolio company Sustana Group in the acquisition of Hanna Paper
• Blackstone in its acquisition of a majority stake in New Tradition Media
• TPG and its portfolio company Keter Environmental Services in the merger of Keter and Waste Harmonics (a portfolio company of Arcapita)
• Aterian Investment Partners and its portfolio company Allentown in its acquisition of BetterBuilt
• Goldman Sachs Asset Management in its $300 million investment in Madhive
• Blackstone in its acquisition of a majority stake in New Tradition Media
• Blackstone, as controlling shareholder of Vivint, Inc., in the approximately $5.2 billion acquisition of Vivint by NRG Energy
• CVC and its portfolio company Radwell International in its acquisition of Electrical Source Holdings
• Goldman Sachs and Eurazeo in the sale of their remaining 51% stake in Trader Interactive, in a transaction that valued Trader at $1.9 billion
• Linden Structured Credit Fund in its preferred equity investment in Aspirion (a portfolio company of Aquiline Capital and Ares Capital)
• Blackstone in its $130 million acquisition of a minority stake in PayCargo (a portfolio company of Insight Partners)
• Cornell Capital in its acquisition of Advancing Eyecare
• Blackstone in its $300 million acquisition of a minority stake in Recurrent Ventures
• Aterian Investment Partners in its acquisition of Allentown
• Goldman Sachs in its $325 million investment in iSpot.tv
• TPG in its acquisition of a majority stake in Morrow Sodali
• Blackstone in its sale of Concert Golf Partners to Clearlake Capital Group
• Goldman Sachs in its sale of Restaurant Technologies to ECP Partners
• CVC Capital Partners in its acquisition of Radwell International
• Cornell Capital and its portfolio company kdc/one Development Corporation (kdc/one) in an investment by KKR and kdc/one's acquisition of Aerofil Technology
• Blackstone in its pending $1 billion sale of Aqua Finance
• CPP Investments, together with Oak Hill Capital Partners, in the recapitalization of Berlin Packaging
• TPG in its acquisition of Keter Environmental Services
• TruArc Partners in its sale of AMAROK (f/k/a Electric Guard Dog)
• Blackstone in its investment in InCloud
• Blackstone in its acquisition of Sustana Group
• CVC in its acquisition of a significant minority stake in CFGI, in a transaction that valued CFGI at $1.9 billion
• Blackstone in its acquisition, alongside Francisco Partners, of Dynamo Software
• Blackstone in its acquisition of DECA Dental
• TPG Pace Solutions, a SPAC sponsored by TPG, in its $4.5 billion business combination with Vacasa
• Blackstone in its acquisition of Certified Collectibles Group
• GHK Capital Partners in its acquisition of ITS Logistics
• Cornell Capital in the acquisition by INW Manufacturing of Capstone Nutrition
• Blackstone in its investment in Hotwire Communications
• Goldman Sachs and Eurazeo in their $624 million sale of a 49% stake in Trader Interactive to carsales.com, in a transaction that valued Trader at $1.6 billion
• Blackstone, as lead investor, in its investment in Vectra AI
• KSL Capital Partners in a minority investment in Honors Holdings, a franchisee of Orangetheory® Fitness
• Cornell Capital in its acquisition of INW Manufacturing and in INW's acquisition of Bee Health Ltd.
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition of Academy Fire Life Safety
• GHK Capital Partners in its sale of a substantial interest in Brown & Settle
• Blackstone in its investment in ISN Software Corporation, in a transaction that valued ISN over $2 billion
• Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division in its acquisition of a significant stake in Zaxby's
• Oak Hill Capital and its portfolio company Galway Insurance Holdings, a holding company for EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, and JenCap Holdings LLC in, together with The Carlyle Group, the sale of a majority stake in Galway to Harvest Partners, with Oak Hill and Carlyle reinvesting in Galway
• Blackstone in its acquisition of a majority stake in ZO Skin Health
• Aterian Investment Partners and its portfolio company Pioneer Metal Finishing in its acquisition of Indianhead Plating
• Oak Hill Capital Partners in its sale of TriPlus Administrative Services
• Blackstone in the sale of the US Claims business of DRB Financial Solutions to Further Global, and the related financing transaction of DRB Capital
• Aterian Investment Partners and its portfolio company Vander-Bend Manufacturing in its acquisition of Swiss Precision Machining
• Blackstone, as controlling shareholder of Vivint Solar, in the approximately $7.5 billion sale of Vivint to Sunrun Inc. via an all-stock transaction and the subsequent sale by Blackstone of shares in Vivint Solar to Coatue Management
• 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)
• Aterian Investment Partners and its portfolio company Vander-Bend Manufacturing, Inc. in the acquisition of substantially all the assets of TMK Manufacturing, Inc.
• Snow Phipps (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in the sale of Kele Inc. to the Stephens Group
• Aterian Investment Partners and its portfolio company Pioneer Metal Finishing, LLC in its acquisition of Electrochem Solutions, Inc.
• CPP Investments in its investment, alongside Silver Lake Partners and Mubadala Investment Company, in Waymo LLC
• Cornell Capital and its portfolio company kdc/one Development Corporation in the acquisition of CLA
• Aterian Investment Partners in the acquisition by their portfolio company Pioneer Metal Finishing of Pilkington Metal Finishing
• Cornell Capital and its portfolio company kdc/one Development Corporation in the acquisition of Zobele Holding S.p.A.
• CPP Investments in the business combination of Ultimate Software and Kronos
• Cornell Capital and its portfolio company kdc/one Development Corporation in the acquisition of Benchmark Cosmetic Laboratories
• Oak Hill Capital Partners and its portfolio company EPIC Insurance in the acquisition of Prime Risk Brokers from THL Capital
• Cornell Capital in the business combination of kdc/one Development Corporation and HCT Group
• CPP Investments in their acquisition, alongside EQT Partners, of Waystar from Bain Capital
• Cornell Capital and its portfolio company kdc/one Development Corporation in the acquisition of Alkos Group
• Blackstone in the acquisition by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities of Concert Golf Properties
• Blackstone in the investment by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities in Sema4
• TPG in the sale of United Family Healthcare (UFH) by UFH's existing shareholders, including affiliates of TPG and Fosun Pharma, to New Frontier Corporation, a public investment vehicle sponsored by New Frontier Group, with the resulting entity, New Frontier Health Corporation, having an initial enterprise value of $1.4 billion
• Cornell Capital and its portfolio company kdc/one Development Corporation in the acquisition of the manufacturing assets of Swallowfield plc
• Blackstone in the acquisition by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities of Amergint Technology
• TPG in the acquisition by TPG Pace Holdings Corp., a SPAC sponsored by TPG Global, of the stock of Accel Entertainment, Inc., for an enterprise value of approximately $884 million
• Aterian Investment Partners in its acquisition of Hain Pure Protein
• CPP Investments in the take-private by a consortium, led by Hellman & Friedman, of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc.
• Oak Hill Capital Partners and its portfolio company EPIC Insurance in the acquisition of the U.S. operations of Integro Group from Odyssey Partners
• Cornell Capital in its acquisition of kdc/one Development Corporation from Novacap Capital and other investors
• CPP Investments in the recapitalization of Berlin Packaging, resulting in CPP Investments and Oak Hill Capital Partners having joint control of Berlin
• EQT Partners and its portfolio company Sivantos Pte. Ltd. in its acquisition of Clearwater Clinical Limited
• Aterian Investment Partners in its acquisition of Xpress Global Systems
• CPP Investments in its co-investment, with Insight Venture Partners, in Veeam Software
• Goldman Sachs & Co. in its acquisition of Restaurant Technologies, Inc. from Aurora Management Partners
• Aterian Investment Partners in its acquisition of Pioneer Metal Finishing
• Blackstone and Goldman Sachs & Co. in its sale of Ipreo Holdings to IHS Markit
• EQT Partners and its portfolio company Sivantos Pte. Ltd. in its acquisition of TruHearing, Inc.
• WPEngine, Inc. in the $250 million sale of a majority stake to Silver Lake Partners
• Cornell Capital in its acquisition of PureStar from A&M Capital Partners
• Blackstone in the acquisition by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities of Aqua Finance
• CPP Investments in the acquisition by a consortium, which also includes Blackstone and GIC, of a majority stake in Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business (n/k/a Refinitiv)
• Aterian Investment Partners in its acquisition of Vander-Bend Manufacturing and Vander-Bend’s acquisition of J.L. Haley Enterprises, Inc.
• Oak Hill Capital Partners in the acquisition by EPIC Insurance of Frenkel & Company
• Goldman Sachs & Co. in its acquisition of Trader Interactive from Landmark Media
• Goldman Sachs & Co. in its sale of Drayer Physical Therapy Institute to Upstream Rehabilitation
• Oak Hill Capital Partners in its acquisition of EPIC Insurance from The Carlyle Group
• CVC Capital Partners in its sale of Cunningham Lindsey to Sedgwick Claims Management Services (a portfolio company of KKR)
• TPG in the refinancing of J.Crew Group, Inc. (a portfolio company of TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners)
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition of Ideal Tridon from American Industrial Partners
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition of DecoPac
• TPG in the acquisition by a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of TPG, with Playa Hotels & Resorts B.V., a transaction valued at approximately $1.75 billion
• Aterian Investment Partners in its acquisition of Stewart Tubular Products
• Kendra Scott Design in its sale of a significant minority stake to Berkshire Partners
• National Surgical Hospitals (a portfolio company of Irving Place Capital) in its $760 million sale to Surgery Partners, Inc.
• Shoes for Crews (a portfolio company of CCMP) in its acquisition of the SureGrip Footwear division of Genesco Inc.
• American Securities in its acquisition of Presidio
• American Securities in its acquisition of Arizona Chemical from Rhone Capital
• Oak Hill Capital Partners in its acquisition of Dave & Buster’s from Wellspring Capital Management
• Providence Equity Partners in its take-private of Virtual Radiologic Corporation
• Providence Equity Partners in its take-private of NightHawk Radiology Services
• Providence Equity Partners in its joint venture with NBCUniversal and Fox in connection with the creation of Hulu
• Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) in its acquisition of Arr-Maz Custom Chemicals
• Lindsay Goldberg in its minority investment in Duff Capital Advisors
• Lee Equity in its take-private of Deb Shops, Inc.
• GE Capital in its minority investment in Bobcat Gas Storage
• GE Capital in its minority investment in Verified Identity Pass
• Univision Communications in its joint venture with Grupo Televisa
• DLJ Merchant Bank in its $600 million acquisition of United Site Services
• Lehman Brothers Holdings in the sale of its interests in its real estate equity funds to management
• CCMP in its purchase of a majority interest in Octagon Credit Investors
• Oak Hill Capital Partners in its acquisition of Ability Reinsurance Holdings
• Lehman Brothers Holdings in the sale of its interests in its merchant banking private equity funds to management and Reinet Investments
• Man Group in its purchase of interests in the general partner and management company entities of Ore Hill Capital Partners
• Lehman Brothers Holdings in the sale of its interests in its real estate debt funds to Pacific Coast Capital Partners
• Man Group in its sale of 50% of its interests in Pemba Capital Partners
• Ospraie Management in its sale of interests in its general partner and management company entities to Credit Suisse First Boston Private Equity
• Lehman Brothers Holdings in the sale of its limited partner and general partner interests in R3 Capital Partners to the principals of R3 Capital Partners

Chris is also extensively involved in Weil’s pro bono program, focusing particularly on the criminal justice system. He is actively involved in Weil’s work with the Innocence Project (which he first worked with while a student at Duke Law School) and leads the Firm’s relationship with JustLeadershipUSA, an organization that focuses on inmates’ rights. Chris also took a leadership role in Weil’s response to the crisis in the Ukraine, where he led a team of Weil lawyers who worked with the Public International Law & Policy Group to create a model statute for a hybrid tribunal to prosecute war crimes in the Ukraine.