Apax Partners $800 million acquisition of Quality Distribution

Overview:

• Apax Partners has acquired Quality Distribution in an $800 million deal.
• Quality is a logistics and transportation provider based in Tampa, Florida that operates throughout North America.
• The transaction equates to $16 dollars per share for Quality investors.
• Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (Ann Beth Stebbins, Don Frost, Jr, Erica Schohn, Victor Hollender, David Schwartz) represented Apax.
• Kirkland & Ellis (Jay Ptashek, Judson Oswald) also advised Apax.
• Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson (Steven Epstein, Abigail Pickering Bomba) advised Quality.

Kurt Stumpo - Journalist - North America and the Caribbean