Grant Solomon

Grant has been part of the teams advising:

• A major financial institution, as administrative agent, in a $1 billion senior secured term and revolving facility for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., to refinance existing indebtedness
• Advent International in the investment in LBS Group
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Agiliti, Inc. in its merger with affiliates of Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P in a transaction that implies an enterprise value of approximately $2.5 billion
• Blue Bird Corporation (a portfolio company of American Securities, LLC) in a $250 million senior secured term and revolving facility
• Blue Bird Corporation and an affiliate of American Securities, LLC, as selling stockholder, in a $52.5 million secondary offering of 2,500,000 shares of common stock and, in a $63 million secondary offering of 2,500,000 shares of common stock, and in a $133 million secondary offering of 4,042,650 shares of common stock
• Brookfield Asset Management, Inc.
• in its formation of Brookfield Infrastructure Fund V, L.P., a $30 billion global infrastructure fund
• in the formation of Brookfield Infrastructure Debt Fund III, LP, a $6 billion infrastructure debt focused fund
• Churchill Capital VII in its pending $1.58 billion business combination with CorpAcq Holdings Limited
• Citi, as administrative agent, in $800 million unsecured revolving and term facilities for Masimo Corporation to finance its acquisition of Sound United LLC
• Clarience Technologies, Inc. (a portfolio company of Genstar Capital) in its acquisition of Pressure Systems International, LLC and the assets of Truck System Technologies, Inc.
• Covetrus, Inc. in its $4 billion sale to CD&R, a holder of approximately 24% of Covetrus' outstanding common stock, and TPG
• Digital Realty Trust, Inc. in definitive agreements with Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. and its institutional partners, Cyxtera Technologies and Digital Core REIT, that successfully resolve the relationships with Cyxtera, including its (i) $459 million sale of four data centers located in California and New Jersey, (ii) $44 million purchase and termination of three of Cyxtera’s leases in Germany and Singapore, (iii) assignment to Brookfield of three leases in Los Angeles and New Jersey and (iv) purchase option to acquire from Brookfield one colocation center outside of London
• The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. in its $650 million offering of investment grade senior unsecured notes
• First Light Acquisition Group in its merger with with Calidi Biotherapeutics, Inc.
• An affiliate of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, as administrative and collateral agent, in $820 second lien term facilities to finance in part Brookfield Asset Management's $8.3 billion acquisition of CDK Global, Inc.
• Galvanize Climate Solutions in its investment in Ascend Analytics
• The Home Depot in its $18.25 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution Inc.
• Iron Mountain in its acquisition of Regency Technologies
• JPMorgan Chase, as lead arranger and administrative agent, in a $400 million senior secured revolving facility for Etsy Inc.
• Kenect, LLC (a portfolio company of PSG) its acquisition of Friendemic Inc.
• KIK Consumer Products (a portfolio company of Centerbridge Partners) in the sale of its Auto Care business to Recochem
• The Kroger Company in its pending $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons Companies, Inc.
• The Kroger Company, along with The Albertsons Companies, Inc., in the approximately $1.9 billion sale of 413 stores, as well as select banners, distribution centers, offices and private label brands, to C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC in connection with Kroger’s proposed merger with Albertsons Companies Inc.
• The Kroger Company in its pending sale of Kroger Specialty Pharmacy to CarelonRx Inc.
• Main Event Entertainment, Inc. (a subsidiary of Ardent Leisure Group Limited in which RedBird Capital is a minority investor) in its $835 million sale to Dave & Buster’s, Inc.
• MarketAxess Holdings Inc. in its acquisition of Pragma LLC
• Quest Diagnostics Inc. in its $300 million acquisition of Haystack Oncology
• Redbox Entertainment Inc. in its sale to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc.
• Reservoir Capital Group, LLC in sale of its majority stake in ClearCaptions LLC to CC Opportunities, LLC
• Sanofi SA in its acquisition of Provention Bio Inc. for $2.9 billion in cash
• SoftBank Group Corp. and SoftBank Vision Fund II in connection with WeWork’s chapter 11 cases with $3.8 billion in aggregate principal amount of funded debt
• Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. in its sale of AT&T SportsNet Southwest to Houston Astros and Houston Rockets

Grant is recognized for Tax Law by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America 2024.

Grant received his LL.M., with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he made the Dean’s List and was a recipient of the CALI Award for Tax Planning for Corporate Acquisitions Seminar. He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as Senior Executive Editor of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and his B.A., cum laude, from Harvard University, where he was a recipient of the Susan Anthony Potter Prize and the Ned Weld Above and Beyond Award. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.