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Kevin Zaragoza concentrates on the domestic and cross-border tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, dispositions, minority investments, partnership and joint venture transactions, divestitures, carve-outs, restructurings, growth investments, and other complex transactions. He also represents sponsors and investors in the formation of investment funds.
Mr. Zaragoza is also experienced in representing both issuers and underwriters in connection with offerings of debt and equity securities.
- HCI Equity Partners in its acquisition of JGB Enterprises.
- HCI Equity Partners in its sale of Quadel Consulting and Training.
- Aveanna Healthcare in its pending acquisition of Maxim Heathcare Services’ home health division.
- Arlington Capital Partners in the sale of Avalign Technologies.
- Brentwood Associates in its sale of Sundance Holdings Group.
- Cirque du Soleil in its acquisition of the Blue Man Group.
- TSG Consumer Partners in its investment in Canyon Bicycles GmbH.
- TPG Capital in its sale of vRide, a van pooling company, to Enterprise Holdings.
- Kohlberg & Company in its acquisition of MarketCast, LLC, the leading provider of strategic insights and data analytics to marketers and researchers in the global entertainment industry.
- EIG Global Energy Partners in its $1 billion investment in Breitburn Energy Partners LP, a publicly traded independent oil and gas master limited partnership, through the purchase of $650 million of senior secured second lien notes and $350 million of perpetual convertible preferred units.
- Hess Corporation in its $2.8 billion sale of its retail business to Speedway LLC and its $1.2 billion sale of its energy marketing business to Direct Energy.
- Talen Energy in its $654 million sale of the 704-megawatt Ironwood plant, a combined cycle, natural gas-fired plant, to a subsidiary of TransCanada Corp.
- Vista Equity Partners in its $4.3 billion acquisition of TIBCO Software.
Covington Advises Commerce Layer in Series A Preferred VC Financing and Reorganization
May 28, 2020
PALO ALTO —Covington advised Commerce Layer in its $6M Series A Preferred VC Financing, led by Benchmark with participation from Mango Capital, DAXN, PrimeSet, SV Angel, and NVInvestments. The investment required the Covington team to also reorganize Commerce Layer by establishing a US parent company for its existing Italian business. Commerce Layer provides a ...
July 22, 2019
NEW YORK—Covington advised Bayer in a definitive agreement to sell the Dr. Scholl’s™ business to Yellow Wood Partners for a purchase price of $585 million. Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition. Its products and services are designed to benefit people by supporting efforts to overcome the ...
July 12, 2019
PALO ALTO—Covington advised Argo AI, LLC, a technology platform company that is working with leading automakers to deliver a fully integrated self-driving system, in the deal announced today with Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Company. Volkswagen will be making a $2.6 billion investment, becoming Argo AI’s second investor and building upon a $1 billion investment ...
May 20, 2019
NEW YORK—Covington advised LifeArc, a UK-based medical research charity, on its monetization of a portion of its royalties relating to Keytruda® for $1.297 billion (approximately £1 billion). This royalty monetization is the largest single-product royalty monetization ever done by a non-profit. The transaction closed on May 10, 2019, the culmination of efforts ...
Covington Represents Bayer in $550M Sale of Coppertone™
May 13, 2019
NEW YORK—Covington advised Bayer in a definitive agreement to sell its Coppertone™ business to Beiersdorf AG, a provider of skin care products, for $550 million. Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition. Its products and services are designed to benefit people by supporting efforts to overcome ...
March 19, 2019, Law360
Law360 covered Kevin Zaragoza’s move to Covington’s Tax Practice Group in New York. He says, “Covington has an excellent international practice. It’s kind of an exciting time to be a tax lawyer after tax reform and all the changes that are happening in regulations, and Covington has a lot of interesting cross-border work that I wanted to be a part of.”
March 18, 2019
NEW YORK—Kevin Zaragoza has joined Covington's Tax Practice Group as a partner in New York. Mr. Zaragoza's arrival follows the recent addition of tax partner Kevin Otero also in New York. Mr. Zaragoza concentrates on the domestic and cross-border tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, dispositions, minority investments, partnership and ...