Aseda Ghartey-Tagoe
Overview
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
Since joining Kirkland, Aseda has been involved in the following matters:
- Golub Capital in its $200 million acquisition of a minority interest in Nassau Financial Group
- Patient Square Capital in connection with its strategic investment in CorroHealth
- J.M. Huber Corporation in its $1.8 billion sale of CP Kelco
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