Derek has been part of the teams advising:

• Advent International and its portfolio company Distribution International, Inc. in its $1 billion sale to TopBuild Corp. and Cobham Limited in its $2.8 billion sale of Cobham Mission Systems and its $965 million sale of Cobham Aero Connectivity
• American Securities in its acquisitions of CS Energy LLC and certain assets and liabilities related to the engineering, procurement and construction division of Swinerton Builders and Swinerton Renewable Energy (collectively n/k/a SOLV Energy LLC)
• Basic Energy Services, Inc. in its acquisition of C&J Well Services
• Churchill Capital Corp IV, a SPAC sponsored by Churchill Capital Group, in its $11.75 billion take-public merger with Lucid Motors
• Cobham Limited in its $2.8 billion sale of Cobham Mission Systems and its $965 million sale of Cobham Aero Connectivity
• Exide Holdings, Inc. in its $179 million sale of substantially all of its Americas operations to Atlas Holdings LLC, in connection with its chapter 11 proceedings
• Kainos Capital in its acquisition of Olde Thompson Inc.
• Oxford Properties Group (which is owned by OMERS) as an investor in the $1.6 billion capital raise for Lineage Logistics
• Southeastern Grocers, LLC in its $1.3 billion prepackaged chapter 11 case

Derek received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.S. from Syracuse University.