James M. Pierre-Louis

James has been part of the teams advising:

• American Securities in its acquisition of LaserShip, Inc. and its sale of a majority stake in Foundation Building Materials, LLC
• Apollo in a single asset transaction sponsored by Alpine Investors involving Ingenio LLC for $340 million of additional equity capital as part of a broader $462 million single asset secondary market transaction to fund future growth for Ingenio
• Apollo Infrastructure in its acquisition of Lendlease (US) Telecom Holdings LLC (n/k/a Parallel Infrastructure)
• Aterian Investment Partners in the acquisition by its portfolio company Vander-Bend Manufacturing, Inc. of J.L. Haley Enterprises, Inc.
• Blackstone in the sale of the U.S. Claims business of DRB Financial Solutions to Further Global, and the related financing transaction of DRB Capital
• CBAM in the sale of a portfolio of its assets to The Carlyle Group, in a transaction valued at approximately $800 million
• Centerbridge Partners in its sale of P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc.; and True Food Kitchen in True Foods’ receipt of a minority investment by Ms. Oprah Winfrey; and KIK Consumer Products in its sale of its Auto Care business to Recochem
• Cornell Capital in its acquisition of PureStar and the acquisition by INW Manufacturing LLC of Capstone Nutrition
• CPM Holdings, Inc. in a $400 million equity investment from Koch Equity Development LLC
• FirstLight Fiber (a portfolio company of Antin Infrastructure Partners) in its acquisition of Maine Fiber Company
• General Atlantic in its sale of MeteoGroup Limited
• GHK Capital Partners in its sale of a substantial interest in Brown & Settle, Inc.
• ICG Strategic Equity, together with Clearlake Capital and TA Associates, in a single asset transaction sponsored by Clearlake Capital involving Precisely Holdings, LLC (f/k/a Syncsort Incorporated)
• Irving Place Capital Management and Agiliti Holdco, Inc. (f/k/a Universal Hospital Services, Inc.) in Agliti’s combination with Federal Street Acquisition Corp. (FSAC), a SPAC sponsored by Thomas H. Lee Partners, in a new holding company formed by FSAC named Agiliti Health, Inc. (n/k/a Agiliti, Inc.), having an implied enterprise value of approximately $1.74 billion
• Lee Equity Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Unlimited Technology, Inc. and, together with Twin Point Capital, in the acquisition of Alliance Corporation
• Mudrick Capital Management and its portfolio company Thryv Holdings, Inc. in Thryv’s $200 million acquisition of Sensis Pty Ltd.
• The NORDAM Group, Inc. in its receipt of a minority investment from The Carlyle Group to finance in part NORDAM’s exit from chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
• OMERS Private Equity in its acquisition of TurnPoint Services and Oxford Properties Group, as an investor, in the $1.6 billion capital raise for Lineage Logistics
• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) in the sale of a substantial minority stake in its portfolio company, Flexera Software LLC; and OTPP and TA Associates in the sale of a majority stake in Flexera Software LLC to Thoma Bravo, with OTPP and TA retaining minority stakes
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, together with Wind Point Partners and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, in the acquisition of Aurora Plastics Group, Inc.
• ORIX Capital Partners in its acquisitions of NTI Connect and Peak Utility Services Group, Inc.
• TCV in its acquisition of a minority stake in Sojern Inc.
• 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

James received his J.D. from New York Law School and his B.S. from Elon University.