Jessica Day

JESS DAY regularly represents strategic investors and private equity sponsors in connection with complex domestic and cross-border transactions and investments, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, minority investments, dispositions and other business combinations. She also regularly advises clients on general corporate and governance matters.

Jess has experience across a range of industries, including healthcare, consumer products, financial services, and professional services.

Clients served in representative transactions include:

• Aeris, a leading Software as a Service-based Internet of Things (IoT) provider, in its strategic investment from private equity firm TA Associates.
• Aspen Insurance in its pending US$3.5 billion acquisition by Sompo Holdings.
• Mastercard in:
  • Its US$2.65 billion acquisition of global threat intelligence company, Recorded Future.
  • Its acquisition of Transfast, a global cross-border account-to-account money transfer network, from GCP Capital Partners and Apis Partners (finalist for The Deal “Financial Services Deal of the Year”).
• RoundTable Healthcare Partners, a private equity firm focused specifically on the healthcare industry, in:
  
  • Its sale of its minority interest in Designs for Health.
  • Its sale of Deerland Probiotics & Enzymes to ADM.
  • Its sale of Revision Skincare® and Goodier Cosmetics to Gryphon Investors.
  • Its acquisition of Santa Cruz Nutritionals, a leading manufacturer of gummy vitamin, mineral, supplement and other nutraceutical products.
• Lovell Minnick Partners, private equity firm focused on investments in financial services, business services and financial technology companies, in:
  • Its growth investment in Cohen & Company, a nationally recognized assurance, tax and business advisory firm.
  • The merger of its portfolio company, UniversalCIS, with Credit Plus, a leading provider of mortgage verifications and business credit reports.
  • Its growth investment in Fortis Payment Systems, LLC, a payments technology and merchant services provider.
• Regal Rexnord Corporation in:
  • Its US$9.1 billion combination with the PMC Business of Rexnord Corporation by way of a reverse morris trust.
  • In its US$4.95 billion acquisition of publicly traded Altra Industrial Motions Corp.
• Allkem Limited in its merger of equals with Livent Corporation, a transaction valued at US$10.6 billion.
• Jones Lang LaSalle in connection with the US$2 billion acquisition of publicly traded HFF, Inc.
• General Electric in the sale of its iconic GE lighting business to Savant Systems, Inc., and its “Current, powered by GE” lighting business to New York-based private equity firm American Industrial Partners.
• Aon PLC in the US$4.8 billion sale of its benefits administration platform to The Blackstone Group.
• Cabela’s Incorporated in its sale to Bass Pro Shops for an aggregate value of US$5.5 billion.