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Josh Feit

Corporate Counsel, New York

Overview

Professional experience

Education

Overview

Josh represents clients on corporate transactions, including auctions, mergers, equity and asset sales, joint ventures, restructurings, spinoffs and carve-outs, as well as on general corporate governance and securities matters.

Josh has particular experience working with private equity sponsors and funds, including on complex cross-border and international transactions, and his domestic and international practice spans a number of sectors, including digital infrastructure, industrials and manufacturing, energy, pharmaceuticals and financial services.

Josh also advises sponsors on the management of their existing portfolio companies, including on equity financings, liquidity events and add-on transactions. He has also worked in our London office.

Josh is recognized as a “Rising Star” for US M&A by Legal 500 2023 and Euromoney 2022.

Work highlights

  • DigitalBridge: advising on a variety of transactions related to portfolio company Vantage Data Centers, including AustralianSuper’s €1.5bn investment for a significant minority stake, the carve-out and sale of a portfolio of stabilized EMEA assets, the acquisition by Silver Lake Partners of a significant majority stake from a co-investor and related investments, the acquisitions by Vantage Data Centers of Etix Everywhere and Next Generation Data, and on the initial formation and expansion of Vantage’s EMEA, Japan and APAC investment platforms.
  • A top sovereign wealth fund: advising on a variety of confidential transactions relating to its investment in a travel/hospitality business, including acquisitions, recapitalizations and a business combination with a SPAC and associated listing on the NYSE.
  • Montagu Private Equity: advising the London-based private equity house on its carve-out acquisition of Informa’s Emerging Portfolio Fund Research business and the related employee incentive plan, as well as its acquisition of Jane’s, an aerospace and defense information business, from IHS Markit and the subsequent bolt-on acquisition by Jane’s of Avascent Analytics and RWR Advisory Group.
  • Hg Capital: advising on the acquisition by its portfolio company Ideagen of ProcessMAP, a software platform providing environmental, health and safety business analytics.
  • A private credit lender and Vewd Software Holdings Limited: advising the majority holder of this developer of TV solutions on its chapter 11 restructuring and subsequent sale to Xperi Holdings Corp.
  • Altaris Capital: advising on its £325m acquisition of Johnson Matthey’s health business and the establishment of the related employee incentive plan.
  • RIT Capital Partners: advising on: (i) its strategic partnership with, and investment in, Hunter Point Capital, an investment sponsor led by Bennett Goodman (co-founder of GSO Partners) and (ii) the investment in LionTree’s technology investment banking advisory business.
  • Linde: advising on its fusion with Praxair and related reorganizations and multiple regulatory-driven divestitures to Messer Group, Matheson Tri-Gas, LyondellBasell Industries and others.

Professional experience

Josh began his career as an Associate Analyst for Citigroup. After that he was an intern for the Honorable Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto from the U.S. District Court while going to Brooklyn Law School. He graduated in 2014 and began to work in Linklaters as an Associate that same year.

Education

Josh received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College. He received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. (Magna Cum Laude and Dennis J. Block International Business Law Fellow).