Kirkland Advises Centerbridge Partners-Backed American Bath Group on Strategic Partnership with LIXIL

Kirkland & Ellis advised Centerbridge Partners-backed American Bath Group (ABG) on a strategic partnership with LIXIL Americas, which will focus on the North America region bathing business. Under the terms of the agreement, LIXIL will license to ABG exclusive rights to produce and distribute bathing products under the American Standard, DXV and Eljer brands. ABG will also acquire the manufacturing facility in Salem, Ohio and a portion of the manufacturing assets from the sites in Monterrey, Mexico and Mansfield, Ohio.

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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Jimin He, Maggie Flores, Steve Napolitano, Nicholas Lewis, Jasmine Zhang, and Chris Solis; technology & IP transactions lawyers Seth Traxler, Kevin Jacobsen, Jessie Perlman, Nisha Chandra and Justin Garfinkle; debt finance lawyers Judson Oswald, Omar Raddawi and Aiko Wadley; and tax lawyers Mike Beinus and Polina Liberman.