Kirkland & Ellis along with Latham & Watkins advised on $7.5bn Playlist–EGYM merger.
The merger brings together Playlist’s global fitness and wellness platform with EGYM’s technology-driven smart fitness and corporate wellness solutions, creating a scaled, end-to-end ecosystem across consumer fitness, enterprise wellness and digital health.
The transaction values the combined enterprise at $7.5 billion and includes $785 million in new equity investments and is subject to customary regulatory approvals.
Kirkland & Ellis advised Vista Equity Partners and its portfolio company Playlist.
The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Stuart E. Casillas, Ari Levi, Fareed Karbassyoon, Andrew Liu, Leo Robles-Rodriguez, Jennifer Leserman, Sebastian Pitz and Jan Ditrich; debt finance lawyers Sonali Jindal, Douglas Tedeschi and Matthew Taylor Demopoulos; capital markets lawyer Robert Goedert; and antitrust & competition lawyer Stephen Mohr.
Latham & Watkins LLP has advised EGYM.
The Latham team was led by Düsseldorf corporate partner Heiko Gotsche and Chicago corporate partner Bradley Faris, with associates Chris Freitag, Oliver Jans, Tyler Arnfelt, Meghan McDuff, Amarantha Zaniker-Gomez, Camille N’Diaye-Muller, and Noah Hellum, with support from lawyers across tax, antitrust, finance, employment, data privacy, intellectual property, regulatory and litigation practices.
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