Donald Kilpatrick

Donald G. Kilpatrick is a highly regarded corporate lawyer with over 30 years of experience advising on mergers, acquisitions and other complex transactional matters. Don represents clients in private and public acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts and equity investments, as well as corporate governance and general corporate matters.

He also works with a number of investment banks in connection with their engagements, advising on engagement letter issues and assisting clients in providing fairness opinions. Don’s experience spans various industries, including the software, banking, professional services, chemicals, manufacturing and consumer products industries.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE :

• Represented SoftBank Group Corp. in its CAD $99 million investment in Nemaska Lithium Inc.
• Advised Swedish engineering firm Atlas Copco Group AB on its $1.6 billion acquisition of private equity-controlled industrial vacuum systems maker Edwards Group Ltd.
• Counsel to a boutique investment bank on a fairness opinion regarding a debt-for-equity swap in a public company.
• Counsel to an investor in connection with the division of hedge fund investments in order to resolve a family dispute.
• Counsel to a leading international accounting firm in its acquisition of an e-Discovery software business.
• Counsel to a leading international accounting firm in its acquisition of a business performance management, business intelligence and data integration business.
• Counsel to a leading media and technology investment bank on the provision of a fairness opinion and advice regarding a $4 billion acquisition of an entertainment company.
• Counsel to a leading media and technology investment bank on the provision of fairness opinions and advice regarding the sale of one of the largest family-focused online media companies.
• Counsel to a leading international accounting firm in its acquisition of a software consulting business.
• Counsel to a leading media and technology investment bank on the provision of a fairness opinion and advice to a digital audiobooks company special committee regarding its $300 million sale.

EDUCATION :

• J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1981
• B.A., Yale University, 1977

ADMISSIONS : New York