Justin M. Garfinkle

Business & Professional Services

• Providence Equity Partners in its minority investment in Populous, a sports and entertainment venue architectural and design firm

Consumer Products, Services & Brands

• Equinox Group, the owner of a high-growth collective of influential luxury lifestyle brands, including Equinox Fitness Clubs, SoulCycle, Equinox Hotels, and Blink Fitness, in a comprehensive refinancing of its capital structure
• HanesBrands (NYSE: HBI) in the $1.2 billion sale of its Champion business, a provider of lifestyle and athletic apparel, to Authentic Brands Group
• Sycamore Partners-backed Ste. Michelle Wine Estates in the following sales of:
  • Patz & Hall, a producer of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines, to its co-founder and a group of investors
  • Its stake in Col Solare, a winery and provider of Washington Cabernet Sauvignon, to Marchesi Antinori
• Transom Capital Group, LLC, on its purchase of substantially all of the business assets of B.R. Funsten & Co. (doing business as Tom Duffy Company), a wholesale flooring product distributor in the U.S.

Energy & Transportation

• Forest Road Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: FRXB), a special purpose acquisition company, in its pending $600 million business combination with HyperloopTT, a transportation and technology licensing company focused on realizing the hyperloop
• Transom Capital-backed Aspen Publishing, a provider of educational content and digital learning solutions to law schools, in its sale to UWorld

Financial Services

• Accel-KKR on its agreement with American Express (NYSE: AXP) to acquire Accertify, a leading provider of fraud prevention, chargeback management, account protection and payment gateway solutions
• GTCR-backed AssuredPartners, an independent insurance broker, in its pending $13.45 billion sale to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE: AJG)
• Wendel (XPAR: MF) in its pending $1.13 billion acquisition of 75% of Monroe Capital, an asset management firm

Health Care & Life Science

• Montagu Private Equity in its $700 million acquisition of the Medical Device Components business from Johnson Matthey (LSE: JMAT)
• Rite Aid in entering Chapter 11 with approximately $3.45 billion in committed debtor-in-possession financing from its existing bank lenders to fund the Chapter 11 process

Infrastructure, Manufacturing & Industrials

• Bain Capital Double Impact in its investment in BW Fusion, a provider of fertilizer and crop nutritional products; Biodyne USA, a provider of biotechnology focused on naturally occurring microorganisms and other sustainable technologies; and Agronomy 365, a provider of a crop analytics and management program
• BETA Technologies, Inc., an electric aerospace company, on the raise of $318 million in Series C equity capital led by QIA, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and TPG Rise Climate
• Transom Capital Group in the sale of Mackie, a manufacturer of professional audio products, to RODE Microphones
• Vyaire, a global enterprise that manufactures and sells ventilation and respiratory diagnostic products and related consumables, in its Chapter 11 filing

Media, Entertainment, Gaming & Sports

• Blackstone in its $1.6 billion acquisition of Hipgnosis Songs Fund and a catalog of more than 45,000 songs by artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Journey, and Shakira, and in its asset-backed securitization of such assets
• Blackstone-backed Hipgnosis Songs Capital in its acquisition of the rights to Justin Bieber's music catalog
• Blackstone portfolio company Hipgnosis Songs Capital in its acquisition of the rights to Shakira's recorded music royalties
• HARMAN International, a connected technologies company, on the acquisition of Roon, a founder-led and owned music player platform designed for music enthusiasts
• Hipgnosis in acquisition of music rights from the English songwriting and record production trio, TMS, comprised of Tom Barnes, Benjamin Kohn, and Peter Kelleher
• Universal Music Group in its $240 million investment in Chord Music Partners, a portfolio of music assets
• Virgin Music Group, the global independent division of Universal Music Group, on the $775 million proposed acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings LLC

Technology, Software & AI Services

•  Sumeru Equity Partners in its $109 million investment in Aerospike, a provider of database solutions
• TA Associates-backed Advantive, a provider of software for manufacturing and distribution businesses, in its growth recapitalization led by a syndicate of investors including Insight Partners and OA Private Capital
• Transom Capital Group in its acquisition of the Bose Professional businesses, which provide audio products, systems, and services designed for commercial and professional applications, from Bose Corporation
• Viking Global Investors LP in Series C-2 minority investment of Viking in Lightmatter, Inc., an artificial intelligence company focused on reinventing how chips talk and calculate to power the AI revolution