Robert Holo

Holo’s representative M&A and financing experience has included:

• Alexion Pharmaceuticals in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Portola Pharmaceuticals
• Amazon in its:
  • proposed $1.4 billion acquisition of iRobot
  • $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical
• Carrier Global in its:
  • $1.425 billion sale of its industrial fire business to Sentinel Capital Partners
  • $3.1 billion sale of its Chubb fire and security business to APi Group Corporation
  • €12 billion acquisition of Viessmann Climate Solutions
  • sale of its global commercial refrigeration business to Haier
  • $4.95 billion sale of its security business, Global Access Solutions, to Honeywell
• The Estée Lauder Companies in its $2.8 billion acquisition of luxury brand TOM FORD
• Keurig Dr Pepper in its $18.4 billion acquisition of JDE Peet’s, in its planned separation into two independent, U.S.-listed publicly traded companies
• KKR & Co. in connection with numerous investment transactions and fund formation matters
• Mizuho Financial Group in its $550 million acquisition of Greenhill & Co.
• Oaktree Capital Management in:
  • the $219 million sale of its remaining shares of common stock in Eagle Bulk Shipping
  • its $369 million investment in debt, warrants and preferred equity of TechStyle and warrants of Savage X Holdings
  • its $105 million investment in senior notes and warrants of Exantas Capital Corporation
  • in its investment in Hess Energy Trading Company (HETCO)
• SEAKR Engineering in its sale to Raytheon Technologies
• Stone Point Capital, as part of an investor group, in the financing aspects of their acquisition of Truist Insurance Holdings, in a deal valuing the company at $15.5 billion
• Teladoc Health in its $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo Health
• Warburg Pincus and its portfolio company TRC Companies, in TRC’s $3.3 billion acquisition by WSP Global

Holo’s other clients have included Alibaba Group, Almanac Realty Investors, BorgWarner, Carlyle, First Data Corporation, Grupo Axo, Ingersoll Rand, Johnson Controls, New Frontier Corporation and SiriusXM.

Holo’s recent restructuring experience includes:

• Certain affiliates of Brookfield Asset Management in their capacities as agent and lenders under a $600 million first lien back-leverage loan facility to PosiGen, including in connection with PosiGen’s chapter 11 cases
• Party City and certain domestic subsidiaries in its prearranged chapter 11 proceedings, as well as the provision of $150 million of
  debtor-in-possession financing, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas
• Salem Harbor Power Development LP and certain of its affiliates, owner of a 674 MW gas fired combined cycle electric power generating facility located in Salem, Massachusetts, in their prearranged chapter 11 cases commenced on March 23, 2022 in the District of Delaware
• Rite Aid Corporation, a full-service pharmacy company providing a broad range of services, including retail pharmacy, PBM, and mail order, across 17 states, in the company’s restructuring
• Revlon, a leading global beauty company, and certain of its subsidiaries in their chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
• Diamond Offshore Drilling, a leading provider of offshore drilling services, and 14 of its U.S. and foreign subsidiaries, in their chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of Texas
• 23andMe, a leading human genetics and biotechnology company, in voluntary chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Holo has advised numerous banks, domestic and foreign corporations, private equity funds and investors in connection with the structuring of acquisitions and dispositions. Holo also advises on international capital markets and joint venture transactions, with particular experience in deals across Asia, Latin America and Europe.