Biography
Ariel Fliman is counsel in Weil’s Corporate Department and is based in New York. Ariel participates in advising clients on insurance matters including structuring management liability programs, negotiating transactional liability policies such as representations and warranties and tax policies, addressing insurance implications arising in the context of restructurings and mergers and acquisitions, and handling the claims process.
Ariel has been part of the teams advising:
- Advent International Corporation in its acquisitions of an approximately 50% stake in RxBenefits, Inc. and a 45% stake in Conservice, LLC
- Aleph Capital and Crestview in their investment in Framestore, and in Framestore's merger with Company 3 and Method, Inc. following Company 3 and Method’s carve-out from Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc.
- Apollo Infrastructure in its acquisition of Lendlease (US) Telecom Holdings LLC (n/k/a Parallel Infrastructure)
- Aquiline Capital Partners in its acquisition of Ontellus
- Avon Products, Inc. in its sale of substantially all of its assets to Natura &Co and its affiliates, effected through a $125 million credit bid in connection with its chapter 11 proceedings
- Basic Energy Services, Inc. in connection with its chapter 11 cases and sale of substantially all of its assets
- Black Knight, Inc. in its acquisition of Optimal Blue LLC, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $1.8 billion
- Blackstone in its acquisition of Certified Collectibles Group LLC; its investment in Hotwire Communications; and together with Greater Sum Ventures, in its preferred equity investment in Inhabit
- Brook & Whittle Limited (a portfolio company of Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners)) in its acquisition of Label Impressions, Inc.
- Charlesbank Capital Partners, together with Robert Long and Blair Ramey of Sanofi’s North American Consumer Healthcare division, in the formation of Bridges Consumer Healthcare LLC; and Bridges' acquisition of the North American rights to ThermaCare® HeatWraps; and Bridges’ acquisition of KT Health, LLC
- Chevron U.S.A. Inc. in its joint venture with Mercuria Energy Trading Inc. to acquire and operate American Natural Gas LLC
- Citation Capital in its acquisition of a majority stake in Aptive Environmental
- Clayton Dubilier & Rice in the merger of its portfolio company Cynosure with Lutronic Corporation
- Corporate subsidiary of publicly-held master limited partnership in its acquisition of $50 million investment tax credits generated by battery energy storage system in Texas
- Deluxe Corporation in its $960 million acquisition of First American Payment Systems, L.P.
- DT Midstream, Inc. in its $1.2 billion acquisition of a portfolio of three FERC-regulated natural gas transmission pipelines from ONEOK, Inc.
- Eli Lilly & Company in its pending acquisition of a manufacturing facility located in Pleasant Prairie, WI
- Genstar Capital in its acquisition of The SEER Group LLC; together with TA Associates, in the acquisition of Orion Advisor Solutions and the simultaneous acquisition of Brinker Capital; and Arrowhead Engineered Products, Inc. in its acquisition of Western Power Sports, LLC
- GHK Capital Partners in its acquisition of ITS Logistics, Inc.
- Goldman Sachs in its $440 million strategic investment in BrightNight
- Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division in its acquisition of a significant stake in Zaxby's Operating Company L.P.
- H.I.G. Capital in its take-private acquisition of Converge Technology Solutions Corp.
- The Home Depot in its $18.25 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution Inc.
- ICG Strategic Equity in its acquisition of an indirect interest in Datavant Group
- Lee Equity Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Unlimited Technology, Inc.
- L’Oréal USA in its acquisition of Thayers Natural Remedies
- MedMen Enterprises Inc. in the transfer of its existing $166 million senior secured convertible notes and associated warrants, representing an approximately 21% potential equity stake in MedMen, to Tilray, Inc.
- MGM Resorts International in its $1.625 billion acquisition of the operations of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
- MSP Recovery, LLC in its $32.6 billion business combination with Lionheart Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC sponsored by Lionheart Equities
- Mudrick Capital Management and its portfolio company Thryv Holdings, Inc. in Thryv’s $200 million acquisition of Sensis Pty Ltd.
- Nexa Equity LLC and Autura in Autura’s merger with Traxero (a portfolio company of Radian Capital)
- Olde Thompson LLC (a portfolio company of Kainos Capital) in its acquisition of Gel Spice Company Inc. and its $950 million sale to Olam Food Ingredients (a subsidiary of Olam International Limited)
- Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board in its acquisition of a majority stake in NVISION
- Pioneer Metal Finishing, LLC (a portfolio company of Aterian Investment Partners) in its acquisition of Pilkington Metal Finishing LLC
- Point Field Partners Holding Company, LLC in its acquisition of C & B Operations, LLC and R&M Commercial Properties, LLC
- Providence Equity Partners in its investment in Sweetwater Sound, Inc.
- PSG in its strategic investment in Wagepoint Inc. and in its acquisition of Benchmark Solutions, LLC
- Sanofi in its up to $1.225 billion acquisition of Amunix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and its sale of Enjaymo® to a subsidiary of Recordati Industrai Chimica E Farmacuetica S.p.A.
- Searchlight Capital Partners, together with co-investors, in the acquisition of Integrated Power Services, LLC
- Seven2 and its portfolio company Vitaprotech Group SAS in its pending acquisition of the physical security, access card, and identity reader operations and assets of Identiv, Inc.
- Skillsoft Corporation in its $525 million acquisition of Codecademy
- Storytel AB, a publicly traded portfolio company of EQT, in its $135 million acquisition of Audiobooks.com
- Sumeru Equity Partners in its acquisition of SocialChorus, Inc.
- Thea Pharma Inc. (a subsidiary of Laboratoires Théa SAS) in its acquisition of a portfolio of seven ophthalmic products from Akorn Pharmaceuticals
- Thompson Street Capital Partners in its growth investment in Green Mountain Technology, LLC
- TPG in its acquisition of Keter Environmental Services Inc.
- Traliant Operating, LLC (a portfolio company of PSG) in its acquisition of Kantola Training Solutions
- Trive Capital and its portfolio company Earthlink in its acquisition of One Ring Networks, Inc.
- TruArc Partners in its acquisition of Watchtower Security, LLC
- Vander-Bend Manufacturing, Inc. (a portfolio company of Aterian Investment Partners) in its acquisition of Swiss Precision Machining, LLC
Ariel received his J.D. from Emory University School of Law and his B.A. from Northwestern University.