Kirk Radke, recognized internationally as one of today’s top private equity and corporate attorneys; featured at Golden Networking’s Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package
New York, NY, May 31, 2010 — Kirk Radke, recognized internationally as one of today’s top private equity and corporate attorneys, has handled every type of complex business transaction for global private equity and corporate clients during his 25 year career. He is featured at Golden Networking’s Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package (http://www.DistressedInvestingLeadersForum.com), an extraordinary video document that includes insights from an exceptional faculty of top business and investment minds, who provide the most up to date review of the complexities that arise investing in Distressed Financial Assets, Debt and Commercial and Residential Real Estate.
Clients describe Mr. Radke as “a terrific lawyer with an exhaustive practice” and a “terrific all-around deal lawyer” who “knows the intricacies of the industry at the highest possible level.” He has been recognized as:
2010 “Best Lawyer USA” by World Finance magazine
2009 “Best Private Equity Lawyer, USA” by World Finance
2003 to present ranked in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business ; nationally ranked as a Tier 1 attorney in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the “Private Equity: Buyouts” category. Additionally, Mr. Radke is the only attorney to rank in Tier 1 for “Private Equity: Buyouts” and also rank in “Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation”
Regularly recognized by Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, Practical Law Company, International Who’s Who and IFLR’s Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers
In the last two years alone, Mr. Radke has represented private equity sponsors and public companies in more than 40 public company M&A transactions. Most recently, he represented:
A leading global private equity firm in the $571 million cash acquisition of a provider of personal-finance information to consumers, among the 10 biggest private-equity acquisitions in 2009
Banking and payments technologies company in the almost $3 billion sale of the company to a leading provider of core processing for financial institutions
One of the world’s leading private equity investment groups in its almost $1.5 billion acquisition of a premier provider of information technology solutions for the healthcare supply chain
A leading global private equity and investment advisory firm in its more than $2 billion acquisition of a leading chemical distributor
A leading credit-oriented alternative asset manager in its more than $1billion bid for one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of packaged ice in the United States
One of the nation’s leading operators of general acute care hospitals in its almost $7 billion acquisition of a competing hospital operator.
Mr. Radke has also represented sponsors in innumerable fund formations. Ranked nationally for “Private Equity: Fund Formation” in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Mr. Radke is called a “firm stalwart” and noted for bringing “a wealth of experience to the table in both fund formation and LBOs.” Most recently, he represented:
A leading global private equity and investment advisory firm on the formation of Fund V ($17 billion) and its predecessor funds
A leading global private equity and investment advisory firm on its debut and second Asia funds
A firm specializing in private equity investments on its debut and second funds
An independent private equity firm on its debut fund
A New York-based private equity investment firm on its third and all predecessors funds
He also has extensive experience with spinouts and splitouts of institutional private equity units, including, most recently:
An independent private equity firm in its spinout from one of the world’s oldest and largest private equity firms
A firm specializing in private equity investments in its spinout from the LBO-focused private equity arm of a world-leading financial services company and a leading middle market investor
A leading global private equity and investment advisory firm in structuring and negotiating a joint venture between itself and an international financial conglomerate.
Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010 DVD Video Package is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs, investors and diplomats, founded by former McKinsey consultant and Columbia Business School MBA Edgar Perez. Upcoming Leaders Forums and Business Networking receptions include:
High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour, (http://www.HFTHappyHour.com), June 8th, New York City
Real Estate Leaders Forum 2010, “Successfully Investing in Distressed Real Estate Assets” (http://www.RealEstateLeadersForum.com), June 17th, New York City
Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to contact Golden Networking by sending an email to [email protected]. Golden Networking has been frequently featured in the press, including recent articles in The New York Times, “Golden Networking Helps Job Seekers Make Overseas Connections” (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/nyregion/07network.html), Los Angeles Times, “Speed-addicted traders dominate today’s stock market” (http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/16/business/la-fi-new-exchanges-20100516) and Columbia Business School’s Hermes Alumni Magazine, “10 Under 10” (http://www7.gsb.columbia.edu/alumni/news/ten-under-ten).
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