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Reuven  Falik

Reuven Falik

Partner

Partner
Reuven Falik

Reuven Falik is a partner in the Tax, Pensions and Employment practice and Co-Chair of the US Executive Compensation practice.

He has experience advising a wide variety of clients in transactional matters, including private and publicly held corporations, with respect to the executive compensation and employee benefits issues arising in mergers sales and other acquisitions, dispositions and initial public offerings. He counsels both corporate and individual clients on the design, negotiation and implementation of equity-based, employment, separation, deferred compensation, change in control and similar compensation arrangements.

He regularly provides guidance on compliance with ERISA, tax, corporate, federal and state securities laws and other laws and regulations affecting employee benefit plans, programs and arrangements, including advising clients on compensation and benefits issues unique to bankruptcy and restructuring transactions.

Private Equity M&A

  • Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in:
    • its US$6.3 billion acquisition of International Game Technology’s gaming and digital business IGT Gaming and Everi Holdings
    • the US$7.5 billion acquisition of the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) business of Lumen Technologies in 20 US states to create Brightspeed, the nation's fifth largest ILEC
  • Baring Private Equity Asia in its approximately US$7.5 billion sale to EQT AB
  • Brighton Park Capital in its US$250 million investment in TickPick
  • Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in its US$775 million acquisition of Cyxtera in connection with its chapter 11 case
  • The Cadmus Group, a portfolio company of CI Capital Partners, in its:
    • acquisition of Nathan Associates
    • acquisition of Wheelhouse Group
  • EQT Infrastructure VI Fund in its acquisition of Lazer Logistics from Harvest Partners
  • Kohlberg & Co. in:
    • its acquisition of Worldwide Clinical Trials
    • its growth capital investment in United Digestive
    • in its investment in Solidcore
    • in its acquisition of a 50% stake in United States Infrastructure Corporation (USIC) from Partners Group for an enterprise value of US$4.1 billion
    • in its acquisition of Ob Hospitalist Group from Gryphon Investors
    • acquisition of Myers EPS from Graham Partners
    • acquisition of a majority stake in Parts Authority
    • acquisition, alongside Mubadala Investment Company, of a majority stake in PCI Pharma Services from Partners Group
    • acquisition of Nelipak Corporation from Mason Wells
  • KPS Capital Partners in its acquisition of:
    • the Engineered Materials business from Crane Company
    • the porcelain enamel, glass coatings, forehearth colorants and frit-based metallurgical products businesses of Prince International Corporation
    • TaylorMade Golf Company from adidas AG
  • Lazer Logistics, a portfolio company of EQT, in its acquisition of Hirschbach Motor Lines’ spotting operations
  • Oak Hill Advisors in its US$4.2 billion sale to T. Rowe Price Group
  • Relatient, a portfolio company of Brighton Park Capital, in its merger with Radix Health
  • SpecialtyCare, a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Co., in its sale to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners
  • Summit Companies, a portfolio company of CI Capital Partners, in its sale to BlackRock Long Term Private Capital

Public and Private Company M&A

  • CareFinders Total Care in its US$340 million sale to ModivCare Inc.
  • Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute in the US$2.49 billion all-cash sale of a majority stake in its internal business and administrative services, Community Oncology Revitalization Enterprise Ventures, to McKesson Corporation
  • JCPenney in its all-equity combination with SPARC Group to form a new organization known as Catalyst Brands

Restructuring

  • An ad hoc group of secured and unsecured creditors of Digicel Group in its restructuring of over US$5.4 billion of debt
  • Affiliates of AR Global in connection with the internalization of management as part of the merger agreement between Global Net Lease and The Necessity Retail REIT
  • An ad hoc group of first lien term loan lenders of QualTek Services in connection with both a prepetition financing transaction and a comprehensive restructuring effected through the company’s prearranged chapter 11 filing

Capital Markets

  • Alignment Healthcare, a portfolio company of General Atlantic, in:
    • the offering of US$193 million of common stock by certain selling shareholders
    • its initial public offering of US$549.3 million of common stock
  • Latham Group in its initial public offering of US$437 million of common stock

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Career and qualifications

  • Yeshiva University (BS) 1995,
  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (JD) 2001
  • Admitted as Attorney-at-Law in New Jersey 2001
  • Admitted as Attorney-at-Law in New York 2004
  • Joined Clifford Chance as partner 2025

Awards and citations

  • Recognized as a "Leading Corporate Employment Lawyer" by Law Dragon in 2024