Jon-Paul Bernard is a partner in Weil’s New York office and is a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice group. JP regularly advises his clients on various aspects of domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, financings and restructuring transactions, and has extensive mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance experience. JP’s practice is particularly focused on joint ventures and financial services M&A.
JP graduated from Colgate University with a B.A. in 1993 and received his J.D., magna cum laude, from St. John’s University School of Law in 1998. He is a member of the State Bar of New York, and member of the American Bar Association.
Representative Experience, Advising:
- IFM in its acquisition of an additional interest in the Duquesne Light Holdings power utility
- General Electric Capital Corporation in the $2.51 billion sale of Business Property Lending, a commercial real estate lending business in the US, to EverBank, a federal savings association that provides various financial products and services in the US
- Alfa Corp. in connection with its pending acquisition of Wellman Holdings, Inc.
- VF Corporation in connection with its acquisition of certain intellectual property rights and assets of Rock & Republic pursuant to a plan of reorganization
- Alfa Corp. in connection with its acquisition of the PET and PTA businesses of Eastman Chemical Company
- General Electric Capital Corporation in connection with the sale of its RV and marine finance business to Santander Consumer USA and Sovereign Bank
- J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC in connection with the restructuring of its investment in HSH Nordbank AG, a German public bank
- Arca Contal in connection with the establishment of a Central and South American beverage bottling joint venture with Ecuador Bottling Company
- General Electric Company and GE Capital in their global business partnership (including an $8 billion global financial services joint venture headquartered in Abu Dhabi) with Mubadala Development Company PJSC
- GE Capital in connection with the restructuring of GE SeaCo SRL, a joint venture established with SeaCo Ltd.
- General Electric Company in the sale of its Times Microwave Businesses in the U.S. and China
- A bank group lead by Credit Suisse in a successful credit bid for Questex Media Group, Inc. pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code
- GE Capital in connection with the acquisition of Merrill Lynch Capital from Merrill Lynch & Co.
- GE Capital in connection with the acquisition of the U.S. and Canadian businesses of CitiCapital from Citigroup
- General Electric Company in the multi-jurisdictional restructuring and divestiture of its GE Plastics business
- GE Capital in connection with its proposed joint acquisition, with Blackstone, of PHH Corporation
- Houghton Mifflin Company in the sale of its college publishing business
- CCMP in connection with its acquisition of Generac Power Systems
- GE Capital in connection with the acquisition of Antares Capital Corporation
- GE Capital in connection with its acquisition of IOS Capital LLC and the establishment of a vendor financing program with IKON Office Solutions, Inc.
- GE Capital in connection with its vendor financing programs and joint venture with Xerox Corporation