Michael P. Chenkin

Michael has been part of the teams advising:

• Black Knight, Inc. in its acquisition of Optimal Blue LLC, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $1.8 billion and subsequently a Special Committee of Black Knight, Inc. in the $1.2 billion acquisition of all of the equity interests Black Knight did not already own in Optimal Blue.
• Brookfield Principal Credit LLC, as administrative agent and collateral agent for the lenders, in the $928 million 363 asset sale of the North American assets of Bumble Bee Foods, LLC.
• CD&R Galaxy UK Intermediate 3 Limited (a portfolio company of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC) in its senior secured term loan facility bridge financing.
• Covetrus, Inc. in its $4 billion sale to CD&R, a holder of approximately 24% of Covetrus' outstanding common stock, and TPG.
• DirecTV, LLC in its acquisition of certain assets and liabilities related to the advertising sales business segment of DirecTV.
• GS Acquisition Holdings Corp II, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Goldman Sachs, in its $2.6 billion business combination with Mirion Technologies, Inc. (at the time, a portfolio company of Charterhouse Capital Partners).
• H&R Block, Inc. in its $405 million acquisition of Wave Financial Inc.
• Iron Mountain Incorporated in its acquisition of ITRenew, Inc., in a transaction that implied an ITRenew enterprise value of $925 million.
• MGM Resorts International in its $17.2 billion sale of MGM Growth Properties LLC to VICI Properties Inc.
• Nexeo Solutions, Inc. (a subsidiary of Univar Inc.) in its $640 million sale of Nexeo Solutions Plastics to One Rock Capital Partners.
• NPC International Inc. in its $801 million 363 asset sale in a chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding of substantially all of its assets to Flynn Restaurant Group and Wendy’s International LLC.
• Sanofi in its approximately $13 billion sale of nearly all of its 20.6% stake in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. through a registered public offering and related share repurchase by Regeneron and in its sale of Enjaymo® to a subsidiary of Recordati Industrai Chimica E Farmacuetica S.p.A.
• SiriusXM in its acquisition of a minority stake in SoundCloud Ltd.
• Software Luxembourg Holding S.A. in its $1.3 billion merger with and into Churchill Capital Corp II, a SPAC sponsored by the Churchill Capital Group.
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Agiliti, Inc. in its merger with affiliates of Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P in a transaction that implies an enterprise value of approximately $2.5 billion
• Willis Towers Watson PLC in its $1.3 billion acquisition of TRANZACT.

Michael received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, his M.A. from Harvard University and his B.A. from Duke University.