Sidley is representing Newfold Digital, a leading web commerce company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, LP and Siris Capital Group, LLC, in the carveout sale of Markmonitor to Com Laude, the London-headquartered supplier of corporate domain services backed by PX3 Partners. The sale will help Newfold in its strategy to focus on its core market of web presence, hosting, and retail registrar services through its companies, like Bluehost and Network Solutions.
The Sidley team is being led by Mehdi Khodadad and Matt Stoker (M&A and Private Equity), and includes Thomas Guzman, Cameron Woolley, Emily Olivera, and Anthony Caneris (M&A and Private Equity); Rachel Kleinberg, Jason Menzies, Jonathan Westreich, and Avi Kaye (Tax); Stacy Crosnicker and Sarah Recktenwald (Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation); Nicholas Schwartz, Mark Adler, Mahalia Doughty, Shneur Wolvovsky, Scott Dawson, and Bill Turnbull III (Debt Financing); Jen Fernandez, Sven De Knop, and Alessandra Moroni (International Trade); Vadim Brusser, Ken Daly, Laura Collins, and Miriam Carroll Silvestri (Antitrust and Competition); Eric Kauffman, Peter McCorkell, and Emily Wajert (Employment); Scott Goldstein (Insurance); Eric Schwartz (Commercial Litigation); Franchesca Blythe, Lauren Kitces, and Garrett Lance (Privacy and Cybersecurity); Elizabeth McCloy and Brandon Bryer (Real Estate); and Kyle Barnett, Dusan Clark, Julia Chester, Garrett Sciortino, and IP transactions specialist Raza Siddiqui (Technology Transactions).
