Tommy Tsao is an associate in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions group. Tommy advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as other public and private businesses, in domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, take-privates, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, minority investments and other strategic transactions. Tommy also regularly advises clients on general day-to-day corporate governance matters.
Tommy’s significant representations include:
- Ares Management* and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan* in their acquisition of a majority interest in TricorBraun, and TricorBraun* in its acquisition of Zuckerman Honickman;
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan* in various transactions, including its:
- strategic investment in Mitratech;
- acquisition of a minority stake in Orva Parent; and
- sale of an equity stake in SeaCube Container Leasing to Wren House;
- Clearlake Capital Group* in various transactions, including its:
- $7.7 billion take-private acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc.;
- significant majority growth investment in Modernizing Medicine, Inc.; and
- joint control acquisition of Software Integrity Group from Synopsys, Inc. with Francisco Partners;
- Ridgeview Partners* in connection with its strategic growth investment in Radiant Logic;
- Wasserman Group* in various transactions, including its:
- strategic investment and recapitalization with Providence Equity Partners L.L.C.; and
- acquisition of Brillstein Entertainment Partners;
- Lido Advisors* in various strategic partnerships, including with:
- Stuart Chaussée & Associates, Inc. an independent wealth management firm based in Palos Verdes, California, with over $500 million in regulatory assets under management (RAUM);
- Fountainhead Advisors, a New Jersey-based wealth management firm with more than $1.2 billion in RAUM;
- Olympus Wealth Management, a Salt Lake City metro area-based wealth management firm with more than $850 million in RAUM; and
- BluePointe Capital Management, a registered investment adviser based in Menlo Park, California, with more than $870 million in RAUM;
- Webcor*, a premier construction services firm, in its acquisition of GCON, a full-service construction management firm serving the technology, datacenter, health care, aviation, higher education and public sectors;
- ASGN Incorporated* in various transactions, including its:
- acquisition of Enterprise Resource Performance, Inc.; and
- acquisition of GlideFast Consulting LLC;
- Saama* in the strategic growth investment and acquisition of a majority stake in Saama by Carlyle and a co-investor group;
- Tengram Capital Partners* in connection with its sale of HRB Brands to Sodalis Group;
- B. Riley Financial* in its acquisition of FocalPoint Securities, LLC;
- Wpromote* in its acquisition of creative media and experiential agency Giant Spoon;
- Nektar Therapeutics* in connection with its sale of its manufacturing facility and reagent supply business to Ampersand Capital Partners;
- Sumitomo Pharma* in its take-private acquisition of Myovant Sciences; and
- Banc of California, Inc.* in its acquisition of Pacific Mercantile Bancorp.
* Matter handled prior to joining Paul, Weiss.
