Quay, Richard R.

Richard R. Quay

Counsel

richard.quay@lw.com
    Quay, Richard R.

    Richard R. Quay

    Counsel

    richard.quay@lw.com

    Profile

    Richard Quay represents financial sponsors, their portfolio companies, and public and private strategic interests in high-profile, cross-border corporate transactions across a broad spectrum of industries.

    Richard has helped some of the world’s most sophisticated financial sponsors — including Apollo Global Management, Searchlight Capital Partners, and Morgan Stanley — navigate complex:

    • Mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and other dispositions
    • Large-cap private equity investments and leveraged buyouts
    • Co-investments and joint ventures
    • General corporate matters

    He crafts creative solutions to quickly, efficiently, and effectively execute his clients’ business objectives for their most critical matters. 

    Experience

    Richard’s experience includes representing:

    Private Equity/Strategic M&A

    • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in its acquisition of Apex Companies, a leading provider of end-to-end environmental consulting and engineering solutions, from Sentinel Capital Partners
    • Apollo in:
      • Its US$7.5 billion acquisition of certain telecommunications assets from Lumen Technologies*
      • Its US$5 billion acquisition of Yahoo from Verizon*
      • Cowen Sustainable Advisors’ minority investment in its portfolio company, ecoATM*
      • Its preferred investment in Albertsons Companies*
      • Its US$300 million investment in Cimpress*
    • Yahoo in selling certain assets to Limelight Networks*
    • Searchlight Capital Partners in:
      • ForgeLight’s acquisition of Univision Holdings*
      • The merger of Grupo Televisa’s US operations with Univision*
    • Hexion in:
      • Selling its phenolic resins and forest products division to Black Diamond Capital Management and Investindustrial Advisors Limited*
      • Corporate representation during its bankruptcy*
    • MPM Holdings in its sale to a Korean consortium of purchasers*
    • Elysium Management in acquiring Perkins Restaurant & Bakery in a 363 sale*
    • Oaktree Capital Management in selling PulseR to The Jordan Company*
    • Firestone & Robertson Distilling in its sale to Pernod Richard USA*

    *Matter handled prior to joining Latham

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • New York

    Education

    • J.D., Columbia Law School, 2011
    • A.B., Princeton University, 2007

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