Cruz Wiles

Cruz has been part of the teams advising:

• Antin Infrastructure Partners in its pending acquisitions of Empire Access and North Penn Telephone Co Inc (together known as Empire)
• Blackstone in its acquisition of Certified Collectibles Group LLC and in its investment in Allied Benefit Systems, LLC
• Brookfield Asset Management in the separation of Brookfield Corporation and Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. and the listing of a 25% interest in Brookfield Asset Management Ltd, resulting in a standalone asset management business with a $50 billion market capitalization as of the separation date
• Cornell Capital in its acquisition of INW Manufacturing LLC and in INW's acquisition of Bee Health Ltd
• Cornell Capital and its portfolio company kdc/one Development Corporation in the acquisition of Zobele Holding S.p.A.
• CPP Investments in a consortium that also includes Blackstone and GIC, in, together with Thomson Reuters Corporation, the $27 billion sale of Refinitiv (f/k/a Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business)
• CPP Investments in a consortium that also includes Blackstone, GIC and Thomson Reuters in the sale of an approximately 4% stake (valued at approximately $2 billion) in London Stock Exchange to Microsoft
• CVC Capital Partners in its acquisition of a significant minority stake in CFGI, in a transaction that valued CFGI at $1.9 billion
• Goldman Sachs in its acquisition of NextCapital Group, Inc.
• J.C. Flowers and its portfolio company Jefferson Capital Systems in its acquisition of Canastream Holdings Ltd.
• Lee Equity Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Simplicity Group Holdings
• Mudrick Capital Management and its portfolio company Thryv Holdings, Inc. in Thryv’s $200 million acquisition of Sensis Pty Ltd.
• Oxford Properties Group (which is owned by OMERS) as an investor in the $1.6 billion capital raise for Lineage Logistics
• 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.
• Thomas H. Lee Partners in the sale of THL Credit Advisors LLC to First Eagle Investment Management, LLC
• Thryv Holdings, Inc. (f/k/a Dex Media, Inc.) in its direct listing on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange
• TPG Inc. in its approximately $2.7 billion acquisition of Angelo, Gordon & Co., L.P.
• 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

Cruz joined Weil as a summer associate in 2018.

Cruz received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law and his B.B.A., magna cum laude, from University of Miami.