Kirkland Advises QualTek on Business Combination with Roth CH Acquisition III Co.

Kirkland & Ellis advised QualTek Services Inc. (QualTek) (NASDAQ: QTEK), a leading turnkey provider of infrastructure services to the 5G wireless, telecom, and renewable energy sectors, on the completion of its business combination with Roth CH Acquisition III Co. (ROCR). The transaction was approved at a Special Meeting of Stockholders of ROCR held on February 14, 2022. On February 15, 2022, ROCR’s units separated into their component parts and ceased trading, and QualTek’s Class A common stock and warrants to purchase Class A common stock began trading on Nasdaq under the symbols “QTEK” and “QTEKW,” respectively. 

The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Matthew Arenson, Michael Weisser and Erika López and associates Justin Joffe, Keli Huang and Ellie Song, capital markets partner Tim Cruickshank and associates Zoey Hitzert, Brendan Stone and Alexis March, tax partners Jared Rusman and Vivek Ratnam, debt finance partners Judson Oswald and Omar Raddawi, and executive compensation partners Jake Ebers and Michael Krasnovsky and associate Mei Wang.