Sidley Austin LLP

Congratulations to Brian Fahrney, who has been named Chair-Elect of Sidley’s Executive Committee. Currently, Mr. Fahrney is global co-leader of Sidley’s M&A and Private Equity practice and a member of the Management and Executive Committee, and represents both acquirers and sellers in a wide variety of public and private merger and acquisition transactions including complex carve-outs, take privates, cross-border transactions, spinoffs, and leveraged acquisitions. He will continue practicing law and serving clients while chairing the Executive Committee. Mr. Fahrney will succeed Mike Schmidtberger, who has served as a member of the Executive Committee since 2002 and as its Chair since January 2018. Mr. Schmidtberger is slated to transition from that position in April 2025 as required under the Firm’s partnership agreement. He will remain a partner in the Firm’s market-leading Investment Funds practice. Read more here, https://bit.ly/4engj49.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in London for Sidley’s inaugural European Legal Heads roundtable. 25 European legal heads — including those from Accenture, Adobe, The Coca-Cola Company, Mastercard, McDonald's, MSD, Qualcomm, Salesforce, SHEIN, and Zoom — joined Sidley’s Tom Thesing, Todd Friedbacher, Leonard Ng, Ramy J. Wahbeh, and Bill Tulin, for an engaging conversation regarding issues that are top of mind as we move into 2025.   Special thanks to our co-moderators, Seda Yalcinkaya (Apollo Global Management, Inc.) and Jeff Bullwinkel (Microsoft), for leading such an informative, lively, and fun dinner discussion.

Sidley is representing Olive & June, a leading omnichannel retailer of nail care products, in its US$240 million sale to consumer retail company Helen of Troy. The #acquisition will allow Olive & June to leverage Helen of Troy’s scale and innovation capabilities. Olive & June will continue to operate under its original brand name; other Helen of Troy brands in its beauty and wellness segment include Drybar, REVLON, and Bed Head, to name a few. The Sidley team is being led by partners David Grinberg and Emily Zipperstein. Read more here, https://bit.ly/491bv2a.

Congratulations to Axel Miranda, a senior managing associate in Sidley’s Miami office, who has been accepted an invitation to become a fellow of the American Bar Foundation (an arm of the American Bar Association). The Fellows is a global honorary society of lawyers, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities. Membership in the Fellows is limited to 1% of licensed lawyers in a jurisdiction.

Sidley is advising leading global life and health insurer Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated in its US$4.1 billion reinsurance transaction to acquire a long-term care (LTC) block and structured settlements block from John Hancock, a subsidiary of Manulife. The transaction is one of the few LTC #reinsurance trades in recent years. The Sidley team is led by Anthony Ribaudo, Michael Devins, and John Grothaus. Read more here, https://bit.ly/490wulY.

Sidley represented medical services company CareMax, Inc. in its #Chapter11 filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. Based in Miami, CareMax operates a network of 56 medical centers in Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and New York, catering largely to elderly patients. The Sidley #Restructuring team was led by partners Thomas Califano and Anthony Grossi, and included Jason Hufendick, Juliana Hoffman, Margaret Alden, Ryan Fink, Chelsea McManus, Veronica Courtney, Andreas Rauch, and Hayden Golemon. Read more here, https://bit.ly/4998PzJ.

Sidley has been named “Law Firm of the Year” for Securitization and Structured Finance Law in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers’ “Best Law Firms.” Learn more about Sidley’s Global Finance practice here, https://bit.ly/3CFNGkz.

Sidley has been named “Law Firm of the Year” for Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers’ “Best Law Firms” — the fourth time the firm has received this designation. Read more on Sidley’s Regulatory Enforcement capabilities here, https://bit.ly/3V24DvW.

Congratulations to Sidley’s Jonathon Hamill and Tanya Indisova, who have been named 2024 “Private Equity Rising Stars” by Law.com International. The annual list highlights lawyers in the UK and Europe under the age of 40 who have done exceptional work within the broader #privateequity sphere. Jonathon’s practice focuses on advising private equity firms and other financial institutions on transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, carve-outs, asset portfolio M&A, distressed M&A, venture and growth capital investments, and joint-ventures. Tanya focuses her practice on cross-border private equity mergers and acquisitions and growth equity investments. Read more on the London-based duo’s practices here, https://bit.ly/3OgmWK7.

Sidley has been ranked in 12 practice areas and received seven lawyer rankings in the 2025 edition of Legal 500 Asia Pacific Greater China. Congratulations to Meng Ding, Lei Li, and Renee Yuping Xiong on their recognition as “Leading Partners;” and to Stephanie Chan and Claudia Yu on their rankings as “Next Generation Partners.” Read more here, https://bit.ly/4fYoxzM.