Simpson Thacher Represents The Berry Company, LLC in Foreclosure Sale for the Purchase of Directory Publication Rights in Cincinnati, Honolulu and Anchorage
03.07.14
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The Firm represented The Berry Company, LLC in connection with its acquisition through foreclosure of the print and online publication rights for white and yellow pages directories in the Cincinnati, Ohio, Anchorage, Alaska and Honolulu, Hawaii markets. Prior to the acquisition, the publication rights were held in a whole-business securitization financing structure and serviced by Berry. The transaction will extend Berry’s geographic footprint for its owned business and result in significant operational synergies for Berry, whose largest shareholder is GSO Capital.
Berry Company is a leading provider of local search and marketing solutions, generating leads for its advertising clients and enabling consumers to efficiently find the products and services they need.
The Simpson Thacher team for the transaction included Sandy Qusba, Soogy Lee, Terry Sanders and Daniel Areshenko (Restructuring and Credit); Kevin Lehpamer and Yui Hirohashi (Mergers & Acquisitions); Genevieve Dorment (Intellectual Property); Jonathan Goldstein and Vanessa Grieve (Tax); David Rubinsky and Paul Koppel (Employee Benefits); Michael Naughton (Antitrust).