Jeffrey P. Swatzell, P.C.
Overview
Jeffrey Swatzell is a corporate partner in the Miami office of Kirkland & Ellis. His practice primarily involves counseling leveraged buyout and private equity funds and their portfolio companies on structuring and negotiating complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of public and private companies, corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, and debt and equity financings. He also counsels clients on a range of general corporate matters, including corporate governance.
Jeffrey has worked on transactions in a variety of sectors, including aerospace, manufacturing, specialty chemicals and materials, professional services, technology, healthcare, and asset management. He has handled matters on behalf of, among others, AE Industrial Partners, Blue Sea Capital, One Equity Partners, ParkerGale Capital, Soundcore Capital Partners, and Sun Capital Partners, as well as many of their portfolio companies.
Experience
Representative Matters
AE Industrial Partners in its:
- Business combination of BigBear.ai with GigCapital4, Inc. a Private-to-Public Equity entity also known as special purpose acquisition company.
- Acquisition of AIM MRO
- Acquisition of American Pacific Corporation
- Acquisition of Cross-Fire & Security Co.
- Acquisition of FMI, Inc.
- Acquisition of HealthWay
- Acquisition of Resolute Industrial Holdings, LLC
- Acquisition of Triman Industries, Inc.
- Acquisition of UAV Factory
Aircraft Technical Publishers in its acquisition of CaseBank Technologies, Inc.
Applied Composites in its:
- Acquisition of Alliance Spacesytems
- Acquisition of San Diego Composites
Cotton Holdings, Inc. in its:
- Acquisition of ACT
- Acquisition of Full Circle Restoration and Construction Services
- Acquisition of Stellar Restoration Services
- Acquisition of Target Solutions
Coveris Holdings in its:
- $1.32 billion sale of its Americas packaging business, Coveris Americas, to Transcontinental
- Acquisition of McNeel International Corp.
- Acquisition of Suraplast S.A.
Forming Machining Industries Holdings in its acquisition of Atlas Aerospace, LLC
One Equity Partners in its:
- Acquisition of American Medical Technologies
- Sale of PS Logistics
- Sale of Simplura Health Group.
ParkerGale in its:
- Acquisition of Lightyear Dealer Technologies, LLC
- Acquisition of Aircraft Technical Publishers
- Acquisition of Profisee Group, Inc.
- Acquisition of Rippe & Kingston Systems, Inc.
Resolute Industrial Holdings, LLC in its acquisition of American Equipment Group
Robertshaw Controls Company in its:
- $900 million sale to One Rock Capital Partners
- Acquisition of Burner Systems International
Sensata Technologies Holding N.V. in its $1.0 billion international carve-out acquisition of various business divisions operating under Custom Sensors & Technologies, including the Kavlico, BEI, Crydom and Newall product lines and brands and related assets
Shiseido Americas Corporation in its acquisition of MATCHCo.
Soundcore Capital Partners in its:
- Acquisition of Sani-Tech JetVac Services, LLC
- Acquisition and subsequent sale of Sweeping Corporation of America
Sun Capital Partners in its:
- Acquisition and subsequent sale of Arrow Tru-Line
- Acquisition of Cotton Holdings, Inc.
- Acquisition and subsequent sale of StonePoint (f/k/a VantaCore Partners LLC)
- Acquisition of West Dermatology
- Sale of Point Blank Enterprises
UAV Factory in its acquisition of Jennings Aeronautics
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial ExternHonorable Joan B. GottschallUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois2006
Prior Experience
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2023Florida
- 2007Illinois
Education
- Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of TechnologyJ.D.with Honors2007
Moot Court Honor Society
Seventh Circuit Review
- Miami UniversityB.S., Business (Economics); Business Legal Studies Minor2003