Aseda Ghartey-Tagoe is a corporate associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises public and private companies and private equity firms in a variety of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions and private equity transactions. She also counsels clients with respect to general corporate matters.
Experience
Representative Matters
Prior to joining Kirkland, Aseda was involved in the following matters:
Apax Partners in its acquisition of Bazooka Candy Brands
New Mountain Capital in its acquisition of Ascensus Specialties
New Mountain Capital in its single asset continuation fund and sale of Datavant Group
KKR and portfolio company Brightview Holdings in its PIPE offering
Silver Lake in its acquisition of Diamond Baseball from Endeavor
BlackRock in its sale of its project, Crockett Superholdings
BlackRock in its preferred equity investment in Recurrent Energy
Calera Capital in its single asset continuation fund and sale of ImageFIRST Healthcare Laundry Specialists
Dell Technologies in its spinoff of VMWare
Global Blue in its combination with Far Point Acquisition Company, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)
Cerberus Capital and portfolio companies Brooklyn Bedding and Helix Sleep in their acquisition of Bear Mattress
Heartland Dental, a KKR portfolio company, in its yearly equity issuance
Prior Experience
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Associate, 2019–2024
Summer Associate, 2018
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
2020New York
Education
Duke University School of LawJ.D.2019
Alumni Association Board of Directors
Duke School of Law Scholarship Award
Staff Editor, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
Vanderbilt UniversityB.A., Medicine, Health and Society; Corporate Strategy Minor2016
