Polina Liberman, P.C.
Overview
Polina Liberman is a partner in Kirkland’s tax group. Her practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex business transactions including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, separations as well as joint ventures, recapitalizations and debt and equity restructurings.
Polina has worked on numerous private equity, LBO and merger and acquisition transactions ranging from several million dollars to several billion dollars for clients including: Audax Group, Bain Capital, CIVC, GTCR, Flexpoint Ford, Levine Leichtman, Waud Capital and others. She has also represented distressed public and private companies in connection with bankruptcy and restructuring transactions.
Experience
Representative Matters
Middle-market direct lender focused on providing liquidity support to funds and portfolios in a NAV credit facility to a private investment firm that provides strategic capital and operational guidance to founder-led businesses.
GTCR, Sycamore Partners and CommerceHub in its strategic investment in CommerceHub from Insight Partners.
Funds advised by Centerbridge Partners, L.P. in its majority equity investment in Syncapay, Inc. for the acquisition of North Lane Technologies and combination with daVinci Payments.
CapVest Partners in its acquisition of Datasite Global Corporation, a leading Software-as-a-Service provider.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners in its acquisition of Tropical Smoothie Cafe, LLC.
GTCR and Mega Broadband Investments (MBI) in the sale of a 45% minority stake in MBI to Cable One, Inc.
GTCR in its minority growth investment in CAPTRUST.
Centerbridge Partners L.P. in its acquisition of Industrial Container Services, Inc. from Aurora Capital Group.
Cision, Inc. in its $2.4 billion merger with Capitol Acquisition Corp. III.
Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. Inc. ("CEOC") in its Chapter 11 restructuring. CEOC, a majority owned subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment Corporation, provides casino entertainment services and owns, operates or manages 44 gaming and resort properties in 13 states of the United States and in five countries primarily under the Caesars, Harrah's and Horseshoe brand names. CEOC and its debtor subsidiaries had more than $18.4 billion in funded debt obligations as of the commencement of their Chapter 11 cases.
Edison Mission Energy (EME) in its Chapter 11 restructuring of approximately $5 billion of senior unsecured notes and project debt. EME, through its subsidiaries, owns or leases and operates a portfolio of more than 40 electric generating facilities powered by coal, natural gas, wind and biomass, as well as an energy marketing and trading operation.
GTCR and GreatCall, Inc. in the $800 million sale of GreatCall, Inc. to Best Buy Co., Inc.
Hawker Beechcraft Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of business, special mission, light attack and trainer aircraft, in its successful prearranged Chapter 11 cases. The restructuring involved conversion of approximately $2.5 billion of bank and bond debt to equity at the time of filing.
H.I.G. Capital in its sale of Enerwise Global Technologies, Inc. d/b/a CPower to LS Power.
KKR/Venado Oil and Gas, LLC in its $300 million acquisition of certain of EXCO Resources, Inc.’s producing and non-producing oil and natural gas properties in South Texas.
Seneca Resources Corporation in the formation of its drilling partnership to develop unconventional resources in Pennsylvania with an affiliate of IOG Capital, LP and Fortress Investment Group, LLC.
Clerk & Government Experience
Law ClerkUnited States Environmental Protection Agency2008–2009
Prior Experience
Kirkland & Ellis, Summer 2009
Global Hyatt Corporation, Summer 2008
Pircher Nichols & Meeks, Summer 2008
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2010Illinois
Languages
- English
- Russian
Education
- Northwestern Pritzker School of LawJ.D.cum laude2010
Executive Editor, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Wigmore Scholar
Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition — First Place, Midwest Super Regionals
Top 10 Brief, World Championships
- Yale UniversityM.S., Environmental Engineering2007
- Northwestern UniversityB.S., Environmental Engineeringcum laude2003