Craig T. Alcorn

Craig T. Alcorn

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Chicago, United States
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Craig counsels clients across a wide variety of industries, including energy, healthcare, technology, pharmaceuticals, financial services, asset management, retail, industrials and foodservice.

He represents public and private companies, including financial sponsors in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions (M&A), divestitures, equity investments and corporate governance matters. He advises his clients on all aspects of M&A transactions, including negotiation of all transaction agreements, overseeing due diligence investigations, coordinating deal teams and advising on legal and business issues.

Craig regularly speaks on securities and M&A-related topics, including at conferences by the Practising Law Institute.

Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Craig worked in the M&A practice of a large global law firm. Prior to his legal career, he worked at Arthur Andersen LLP and Protiviti Inc. as an internal audit and risk consultant.

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  • Represented Chicago Atlantic as a significant stockholder of Vireo Growth Inc. (“Vireo”) in Vireo’s acquisitions of WholesomeCo., Inc., Deep Roots Holdings, Inc. and affiliates of Proper Holdings, LLC.
  • Represented Chicago Atlantic BDC Holdings, LLC and its affiliates in its joint venture with Silver Spike Capital, LLC (“SSC”), the investment adviser of Silver Spike Investment Corp, under which parties agreed to combine and jointly operate SSC’s and a portion of Chicago Atlantic’s investment management businesses.
  • Represented Sunergy, a DeSpac target company, in its business combination with ESGEN Acquisition Corp.
  • Advised Highline Management Inc. in connection with the sale of substantially all the assets of Prime Automotive Group to Group 1 Automotive, Inc.
  • Advised Stryker Corporation in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Vocera Communications, Inc.
  • Advised Spencer Stuart Management Consultants in its acquisition of certain leadership development, human resources consulting and human capital advisory businesses of Aon Corporation.
  • Represented Hanwha Aerospace Co. in its US$300 million acquisition of EDAC Technologies from a consortium led by Greenbrier Equity Group L.P.
  • Represented Corpay in its consortium $2.2 billion acquisition of AvidXchange.
  • Represented Credit Suisse as lead underwriter of a US$425 million 144A senior secured notes offering by ACCO Brands Corporation.
  • Counseled Ashtead Capital, Inc. in a series of senior secured notes offerings under Rule 144A.
  • Represented Black Diamond Capital Management in its contested Section 363 majority acquisition of Empire Gen Holdings, LLC.
  • Advised Black Diamond Capital Management in its consortium acquisition of Arclin (Canada).
  • Counseled Black Diamond Capital Management in its acquisition of Foamex International.
  • Represented UK-based Capital Shopping Centres Group PLC in the approximately US$600 million partnership transaction involving Capital and Counties U.S.A., its US REIT subsidiary.
  • Represented Classified Ventures, LLC in its US$585 million sale of its Apartments.com business to CoStar Group Inc.
  • Counseled Chevron Corporation in its US$4.3 billion acquisition and restructuring of Atlas Energy, Inc.
  • Advised Kinetic Concepts, Inc. in its US$1.7 billion acquisition of LifeCell Corporation and its private placement of US$690 million of convertible notes to finance the LifeCell acquisition.
  • Represented Kinetic Concepts, Inc. in its US$6.1 billion acquisition by Apax Partners.
  • Represented Digital River, Inc. in its US$840 million acquisition by a private equity consortium led by Siris Capital Group.
  • Counseled Ball Corporation in the sale of certain assets related to its plastic container business.
  • Advised Ball Corporation in its US$675 million joint venture transaction with Platinum Equity regarding Ball’s US steel food and steel aerosol packaging manufacturing business.
  • Represented Ball Corporation in its US$6.1 billion acquisition of Rexam PLC and US$3.1 billion simultaneous antitrust-related disposition of certain of its and Rexam’s businesses to Ardagh Group.
  • Counseled Exelon Corporation in its US$7.9 billion acquisition of Constellation Energy Group, Inc.
  • Advised Hillshire Brands Company in its response to unsolicited acquisition offers made by Tyson Foods Inc. and Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. that concluded with Tyson’s US$8.55 billion acquisition of Hillshire.
  • Represented Hillshire Brands Company in its agreement in relation to a US$6.6 billion acquisition of Pinnacle Foods Inc.
  • Advised Longview Capital Management in connection with the consortium buyout of PetSmart, Inc. in a transaction valued at US$8.7 billion.
  • Counseled Stryker Corporation in its US$660 million acquisition of Entellus Medical, Inc.
  • Represented Stryker Corporation in its US$1.4 billion acquisition of K2M Holdings, Inc.
  • Advised Hospira, Inc. in its US$17 billion acquisition by Pfizer Inc.
  • Counseled Cardinal Health, Inc. in its US$1 billion sale of its Cordis business to Hellman & Friedman.
  • Advised Cardinal Health, Inc. in its US$6 billion purchase of the patient recovery business segment of Medtronic PLC.
  • Represented Ecolab Inc. in its reverse morris trust transaction involving its ChampionX business and Apergy Corporation, valuing Ecolab’s ChampionX business at approximately US$4.4 billion.
  • Illinois
  • B.S., magna cum laude, Florida State University
  • J.D., cum laude, Northwestern University School of Law
  • M.B.A., Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

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Craig Alcorn

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