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Rhône Group -backed Hudson's Bay Company , a Canadian retail business group, completed the acquisition of Neiman Marcus Group , an American integrated luxury retailer, from Sixth Street , a global investment firm, for $2.65bn.
Neiman Marcus was advised by J.P. Morgan , Lazard , Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (led by Melissa Sawyer and Lauren S. Boehmke) and Joele Frank (led by Ed Trissel and Andrea Rose). Financial advisors were advised by White & Case LLP (led by Denise A. Cerasani). HBC was advised by Elm Street Advisors , Deloitte , Jefferies , M. Klein & Company , Morgan Stanley , RBC Capital Markets , Solomon Partners and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (led by Tej Prakash, Michael E. Brandt and Viktor Okasmaa). Debt financing was provided by Apollo Global Management, Inc. , Bank of America , Citi , Morgan Stanley , RBC Capital Markets and Wells Fargo . Rhône Capital was advised by Gibson Dunn (led by Andrew Herman) and Brunswick Group . G-III was advised by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (led by Jeffrey D. Marell and Matthew Benedetto). Amazon was advised by Latham & Watkins (led by Tessa Bernhardt, Andrew C. Elken and Charles Ruck). Sixth Street was advised by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (led by John Kupiec).
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Butterfly Equity , a private equity firm specializing in the food and beverage sector, completed the acquisition of The Duckhorn Portfolio , an American wine company, for $1.95bn.
The Duckhorn Portfolio was advised by J.P. Morgan , Gibson Dunn (led by Kristen P. Poole), Ropes & Gray LLP (led by Elizabeth Gallucci and Chris Comeau) and ICR . JP Morgan was advised by Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (led by Minh Van Ngo and Andrew Wark). Butterfly was advised by KKR , Kirkland & Ellis (led by Ravi Agarwal) and Prosek Partners .
Investment companies Blackstone and CPP Investments | Investissements RPC completed the acquisition of AirTrunk , a hyperscale data centre platform, from Macquarie Group , a global investment banking and financial services group, and PSP Investments , a capital market company, for AUD24bn ($15bn).
AirTrunk was advised by Goldman Sachs (led by Stephan Feldgoise). Blackstone was advised by Citi , Morgan Stanley , RBC Capital Markets , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (led by Anthony King) and MorrisBrown Communications Pty Ltd (led by Hayley Morris).
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