Amanda M. Casanueva

AMANDA CASANUEVA focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation.

Amanda earned her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she served on the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and was a member of Phi Delta Phi. Prior to law school, Amanda graduated from Florida State University with a B.S. in political science and communications.

• Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (NASDAQ: GLDD) in its US$1.5 billion take-private acquisition by Saltchuk Resources, Inc. (pending).
• MediaNews Group in its sale of The Detroit News, a 153-year-old print and digital news organization, to USA TODAY.
• Optimas OE Solutions Holding, LLC in the carve-out sale of its international business unit to European private equity firm Exponent.
• Sleep Number Corporation in its strategic investment from, and partnership with, three-time Super Bowl champion and National Football League (NFL) star Travis Kelce.
• Marathon Asset Management in its up to US$1.6 billion (US$1.2 billion in upfront consideration and up to US$400 million in contingent deferred consideration) sale to CVC, one of the world’s leading private markets investment firms.
• Smith+Nephew (LSE: SN, NYSE: SNN), a global medical technology company, in its acquisition of Integrity Orthopaedics, a U.S.-based sports medicine company focused on soft tissue repair solutions, for up to US$450 million.
• Ancala, an independent infrastructure manager, in its acquisition of a portfolio of pipeline-connected sites and storage facilities for the production, storage, and transportation of critical chemical intermediates from Hexion, an American Securities portfolio company.
• Garage Beer, the fastest growing, independent beer brand in the U.S., in its strategic growth investment from Durational Capital Management.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners, L.P. in its strategic investment in Amylu Foods, a manufacturer of all-natural, value-added protein products.
• One Equity Partners in connection with its investment in Brown & Root Industrial Services, a provider of non-discretionary, specialty industrial services.
• Global Container International (GCI), a leading lessor of marine intermodal containers, in its acquisition by Triton International Limited, the world’s largest lessor of intermodal freight containers, for a total transaction value of over US$1 billion.
• Funds advised by Wafra Inc. in the pending acquisition of Aquila Air Capital from funds managed by Warburg Pincus LLC.
• Eldridge Industries, in its acquisition alongside Dick Clark Productions, of all the Golden Globes’ assets, rights, and properties from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
• Naturium in its US$355 million acquisition by e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.
• Mastercard in its US$2.65 billion acquisition of global threat intelligence company Recorded Future (pending).