Thomas Engelhardt is an associate in the Corporate Department of the New York office of Latham & Watkins. He is also a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice.

Thomas represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies as well as publicly traded and privately held businesses in connection with:

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Sales, dispositions, and carve-outs
  • Controlling and minority investments
  • Reorganizations
  • General corporate matters

During law school, Thomas served as a notes and comments editor of the St. John’s Law Review.

Thomas' experience includes advising:

  • American Renal Associates (NYSE: ARA) on its take-private sale to Nautic Partners
  • ArcLight Capital Partners on a number of transactions, including:
    • Its acquisition of Lordstown Energy Center (a 940 MW power plant in Warren, OH) from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners 
    • Its acquisition of a 160 MW onshore wind farm in the Midland Basin in TX 
    • Its acquisition of a minority interest in Kleen Energy Systems (a 620 MW power plant in Middletown, CT) from Sojitz Corporation 
    • Its sale of Associated Asphalt to Ergon 
    • Its sale of a minority interest in the Perdido Regional Host (a deepwater spar platform in the Gulf of Mexico) to Third Coast
  • The Aspen Group, a portfolio company of Leonard Green & Partners, Ares Management, and American Securities, on its acquisitions of ClearChoice and AZPetVet and subsequent equity financings
  • Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, and its portfolio company Applegreen, on the acquisition of HMSHost’s US motorways business
  • CI Capital Partners on a number of transactions, including its acquisition of SavATree and its sales of Material Handling Solutions to Harvest Partners and Tech Air to Airgas*
  • CPA Global, a portfolio company of Leonard Green & Partners, on its sale to Clarivate
  • Expera Specialty Solutions, a portfolio company of KPS Capital Partners, on its sale to Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj*
  • FirstLight Fiber, a portfolio company of Oak Hill Capital Partners, on its acquisitions of Finger Lakes Technologies Group and 186 Communications and its sale to Antin Infrastructure Partners*
  • Gulf Oil, a portfolio company of ArcLight Capital Partners, on its sale of four refined products terminals to Global Partners and the sale of its marketing business and US trademarks to RaceTrac
  • Monarch Landscape Companies, a portfolio company of One Rock Capital Partners, on its sale to Audax
  • Searchlight Capital Partners on its controlling investment in Sightline Payments, its take-private acquisition of Hemisphere Media Group (NASDAQ: HMTV) and Hemisphere’s sale of Pantaya to TelevisaUnivision 
  • Sightline Payments on its acquisition of JOINGO and several equity financing rounds
  • Taylor Morrison Home (NYSE: TMHC) on its acquisition of AV Homes (NASDAQ: AVHI)*
  • WPP plc on a number of transactions, including carve-out sales by Blue State Digital and Triad Digital Media, its sale of a majority interest in Kantar to Bain Capital, the restructuring of Wunderman Thompson, and its acquisition of XumaK*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • New Jersey
  • New York

Education

  • JD, St. John's University School of Law, 2015
    summa cum laude
  • BS, Marist College, 2012
    summa cum laude