The firm represented a newly formed affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. and Bain Capital LLC in connection with its $1.27 billion acquisition of Accellent Inc., a company headquartered in Wilmington, MA that provides manufacturing and design services to medical device manufacturers in the cardiology, endoscopy and orthopedic markets. The transaction was announced on October 10, 2005 and was completed on November 22, 2005. Accellent Inc. was previously owned by a private investment group led by DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, an affiliate of Credit Suisse First Boston, and KRG Capital Partners.
The Simpson Thacher attorneys working on the transaction included: M&A - Casey Cogut, Andrew Sossen, Matt Meyer and Justin Cooke; Capital Markets -- Joe Kaufman, Dominique Schulte, Ian Ho, David Lee, Keri Richardson; Credit -- James Cross, Jonathan Wry, Catherine Wang, Matt O'Shea and Dana Cicerani; Tax - Steve Todrys, Nancy Mehlman and Shari Silverman; Employee Compensation & Benefits - Alvin Brown, Francis Adkins and Jonathan Farkas; Environmental - Adeeb Fadil and Timothy Mulvihill; Labor - Fagie Hartman; IP -- Noah Leibowitz and Catherine Lake; Real Estate -- Mardi Merjian and Ari Stavsky. Paralegal Matt Reichstein also assisted.