Joshua Kogan, P.C.

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

New York +1 212 446 4949

Joshua Kogan, P.C.

Overview

Joshua Kogan is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice regularly serves large and middle-market private equity/leverage buyout fund clients and their portfolio companies in connection with leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, mergers, venture capital/growth equity investments, and restructurings. Josh has broad experience counseling clients in a variety of industries, including consumer and retail, automotive, financial services, food & beverage, healthcare, industrials, technology, software, and telecommunications. Some of Josh’s clients include L Catterton, New Mountain Capital, Abry Partners, Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Avista Capital Partners, Irving Place Capital, KPS Capital Partners, and Trilantic Capital Partners.

Josh was recognized by The Deal as a finalist for “Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage Dealmaker of the Year” in 2022. He was recognized as a Top Mid Cap M&A Lawyer in North America by MergerLinks’ in 2021 and as a “Notable Practitioner” for M&A by IFLR1000 in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019. Josh was also recognized as an “Emerging Leader” by The M&A Advisor in 2016. He also serves on several Firm committees including, as co-chair of the Firmwide Associate Review Committee, Nonshare Partner and Associate Compensation Committee, the New York Office’s Recruiting Committee, and the New York Office’s Operations Committee.

L Catterton and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including:

  • in its acquisition of Truck Hero, Inc.
  • $200 million investment in ICON Health & Fitness 
  • strategic minority equity investment in FYidoctors
  • OneSpaWorld, portfolio company of L Catterton, in its $850 million combination with Haymaker Acquisition Corp., as a SPAC
  • $1.9 billion sale of Ainsworth Pet Nutrition to The J.M. Smucker Company
  • $925 million take-private of Steiner Leisure Ltd.
  • Steiner Leisure Ltd. in the $900 million sale of ELEMIS, a British skincare brand, to L’Occitane International
  • investment in ClassPass
  • $100 million investment in Boll & Branch
  • investment in Ainsworth Pet Nutrition
  • acquisition and disposition of Cholula
  • acquisition and sale of CorePower Yoga
  • investment in Equinox Fitness Clubs
  • acquisition of Leslie’s, Inc.
  • sale of Mid-Atlantic Convenience Stores to Sunoco
  • acquisition of Primanti Brothers
  • acquisition and sale of Pure Barre
  • VER Technologies in its Chapter 11 filing and merger with Production Resource Group

KPS Capital Partners in numerous transactions, including:

  • acquisition of AM General LLC
  • $550 million acquisition of Briggs & Stratton Corporation

New Mountain Capital and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including:

  • sale of Careismatic Brands, Inc. to Partners Group 
  • $596 million take private acquisition of TRC Companies, Inc.
  • acquisitions of ABB Concise and Optical Distributor Group
  • sale of ACA to Starr Investments
  • acquisition of Advance Health
  • acquisition of Classic Collision
  • acquisition of CenseoHealth
  • acquisition of Diversified Food Service
  • acquisition of Horizon Group
  • partnership with Legends Hospitality
  • acquisition of Strategic Partners, Inc.
  • TRC Companies in its acquisition of Lockheed Martin Energy’s Distributed Energy Solutions group

Abry Partners in numerous transactions, including:

  • $1.15 billion sale of the Hilb Group to The Carlyle Group
  • acquisition and subsequent $1.886 billion sale of Telx to Digital Realty Trust, Inc. alongside Berkshire Partners
  • $1.36 billion sale of Atlantic Broadband to Cogeco Cable
  • $1.325 billion sale of its majority equity interest in York Risk Services Group to Onex Corporation
  • investment in BSO Networks, Inc.
  • acquisition of Datapipe, Inc.
  • acquisitions of KORE Wireless Group and RacoWireless
  • sale of Monitronics, Inc. to Ascent Media Corporation
  • sale of Talent Partners to the Carlyle Group
  • sale of Xand Corporation to Tierpoint
  • buyout of York Risk Services, Inc. from Odyssey Partners

Blackstone in numerous transactions, including:

  • investment in Episerver
  • investment in North American Bancard

Funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities in its investment in Diligent Corporation

Apollo Global Management and its portfolio company Verso Paper Corp. in the $1.4 billion acquisition of NewPage, a producer of printing and specialty papers

Armored AutoGroup, a portfolio company of Avista Capital Partners, in its $1.4 billion sale to Spectrum Brands, Inc.

Avista Capital Partners in numerous transactions, including:

  • $1.5 billion take private of Knology, Inc., alongside WOW Internet and Cable
  • divestiture of certain cable systems in the Dakotas and Iowa, alongside WOW Internet and Cable
  • acquisition of Clorox’s global auto business
  • acquisition of Databank, Inc.

Irving Place Capital in multiple acquisitions and sales, including:

  • acquisition of Bendon Publishing from the Wicks Group
  • sale of Multi-Packaging Solutions to Madison Dearborn Partners
  • sale of Playcore, Inc. to Sentinel Capital Partners

Donuts Inc. in its acquisition of Afilias, Inc. 

Leslie's, Inc. in its initial public offering of common stock 

Metalmark Capital in its investment in Jones Energy and subsequent bankruptcy acquisition of Crusader Energy

The Markets.com in its sale to CapitalIQ, a McGraw hill subsidiary

Trilantic Capital Partners in its $450 million joint venture with Billabong in Nixon, Inc.

Vestar Capital Partners in its acquisition, with Warburg Pincus, of Triton Containers

WOW! and Avista Capital Partners in the sale of a stake in WOW! to Crestview Partners

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Thought Leadership

Seminars

Moderator, Panel on Consumer, 2022 Wharton Private Equity & Venture Capital Conference, April 1, 2022 

Panelist, Q&A with Keynote Speaker Michael Chu, Columbia Business School’s 28th Annual Private Equity Virtual Conference, February 4, 2022

Moderator, Panel on Consumer, Wharton Private Equity & Venture Capital Virtual Conference, April 8, 2021

Recognition

The Deal, Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage, Dealmaker of the Year, Finalist, 2022

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2004New York

Education

  • The George Washington University Law SchoolJ.D.with High Honors2003

    Order of the Coif

    George Washington Law Review

  • Northwestern UniversityB.A., Political Sciencewith Honors2000