RICHARDS
Lukas
David

• 1. Experience

Lukas Richards is a partner in the corporate department of the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Experience

• Vista Equity Partners in its acquisition of Farelogix by Vista portfolio company Accelya.
• AbbVie in its $63 billion acquisition of Allergan.
• Apax Partners in its investment in Paycor, a Human Capital Management company.
• KKR in its acquisition of GeoStabilization International, a provider of geotechnical maintenance services, from CAI Capital Partners.
• Blackstone in its acquisition of the Center For Autism and Related Disorders, LLC.
• Steiner Leisure Ltd., portfolio company of L Catterton, in the $900 million sale of ELEMIS, a British skincare brand, to L’Occitane International.
• Tronox Limited in its $1.325 billion sale of its Alkali Chemicals business to Genesis Energy, L.P.
• New Mountain Capital, LLC in its partnership with Legends Hospitality, LLC.
• Equity One in its $15.6 billion merger with Regency Centers Corporation, creating the preeminent shopping center REIT in the U.S.
• Solera Holdings in connection with its $6.5 billion sale to Vista Equity Partners.
• Warburg Pincus in the sale of Coyote Logistics, a Chicago-based truckload freight brokerage company, to UPS (NYSE: UPS) in a $1.8 billion cash transaction.
• KKR in its acquisition of C.H.I. Overhead Doors.
• IGATE Corporation in its $4.04 billion merger with Cap Gemini S.A.
• Tronox Limited in its $1.64 billion acquisition of FMC Corporation's alkali chemicals business.