Partner in the Tax Department, Reuven Garrett regularly advises clients on a broad range of tax matters, including private and public mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, financing arrangements and capital markets transactions. His practice also includes advising on the formation and operation of credit, infrastructure and hedge funds and their investments, sponsor upper-tier arrangements, and advising on asset manager M&A transactions. Garrett has advised clients on an array of complex cross-border transactions, spin-offs, tax-free reorganizations and bankruptcy and restructuring matters. In 2025, Garrett was named one of the “500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers” and in 2024, a “500 X – The Next Generation” lawyer by Lawdragon.
Garrett’s recent private equity transactions include representing:
- Apollo Global Management and affiliated funds in numerous high-profile transactions, including in:
- the $8.1 billion take-private acquisition of Univar Solutions
- its structured equity investment in Intermodal Tank Transport
- Bain Capital in its $1.2 billion strategic joint venture with Warner Music Group to purchase legendary music catalogs across both recorded music and music publishing
- Brookfield Asset Management:
- in its $775 million acquisition of Cyxtera in connection with its chapter 11 case
- and Simon Property Group in their acquisition of the operating business of J.C. Penney Company, in connection with J.C. Penney’s chapter 11 case
- General Atlantic:
- and its BeyondNetZero Climate Growth Fund in its growth investment in Technosylva
- in the $420 million initial public offering of HireRight
- in its $1.5 billion take-private acquisition of Arco Platform
- JCPenney in its all-equity combination with SPARC Group to form a new organization known as Catalyst Brands
- Oak Hill Capital:
- in its investment in American Veterinary Group
- in MetroNet’s inaugural securitization and numerous lending, topco and warehouse facilities, backed by MetroNet’s fiber network and infrastructure assets and customer receivables in mature neighborhoods
- Searchlight Capital Partners:
- and its portfolio company, Fidium, on a fiber securitization transaction comprised of $1.283 billion in asset-backed notes
- in its strategic investment in Chord Music Partners
Garrett’s other recent experience includes representing:
- Checkers Drive-In Restaurants in a recapitalization with its lenders which reduced its long-term funded debt from approximately $300 million to $75 million. Checkers also received an additional $25 million in new debt financing commitments to fund the company’s store remodeling program and other growth initiatives
- TeraWulf in:
- its private offering of $3.2 billion of 7.750% senior secured notes
- its private offering of $500 million of 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes
- Trane Technologies in the $15 billion Reverse Morris Trust spin-off and merger of its industrial business with Gardner Denver Holdings
