Home Depot $1.6 billion acquisition of Interline Brands

Overview:

• Home Depot has acquired Interline Brands in a $1.6 billion deal.
• Interline sells home repair products.
• Goldman Sachs and P2 Capital were the sellers, and had owned Interline since 2012.
• Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Ethan Klingsberg, Michael Albano) advised Home Depot.
• Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson (Robert Schwenkel, David Shaw, Joshua Thomas Coleman) advised Interline.

Kurt Stumpo - Journalist - North America and the Caribbean