Jaye Kasper is a Corporate partner in the New York office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP.
Jaye’s practice focuses on advising private equity funds and private and public companies on complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, de-SPACs, carve-outs, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, executive compensation, incentive equity arrangements, governance and other general corporate matters. Jaye also advises private equity funds in the management of their portfolio companies, including financings, follow-on acquisitions and liquidity events.
Jaye joined Cadwalader in 2024 from a major global law firm, where she was a partner in their corporate practice.
Prior to joining Cadwalader, Jaye’s notable representations included:
- ABRY Partners and Inmar Inc. in the sale of Inmar Inc. to OMERS Private Equity
- Altas Partners and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in the sale of Capital Vision Services, LP (operating under the “MyEyeDr.” Brand) to the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs
- A&M Capital Partners in its:
- sale of ettain group to ManpowerGroup
- acquisition of CNSI
- sale of Centerra Group
- sale of Gabriel Brothers
- Amer Sports, along with its investor consortium, in its $420 million sale of Amer’s Precor division to Peloton
- The Carlyle Group in its $435 million acquisition of Unchained Labs
- Cogeco Communications Inc. and Atlantic Broadband in the $1.4 billion acquisition of MetroCast cable systems
- EQT Infrastructure on its acquisition of EdgeConneX
- EQT Private Equity in its sale of Zemax to Ansys
- Greenbriar Equity Group:
- in connection with its acquisition of Electrical Source Holdings and numerous add-on acquisitions
- and its portfolio company Whitcraft Group on its pending combination with Paradigm Precision alongside Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
- iHeartMedia, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries in the $1.8 billion separation of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries out of the iHeartMedia Group in connection with iHeartMedia’s Chapter 11 restructuring process
- The Jordan Company:
- in the recapitalization of global freight forwarding leader AIT Worldwide Logistics
- in its strategic investment in Invo Healthcare Associates LLC
- Parts Authority, a portfolio company of The Jordan Company, in its sale of a majority stake to Kohlberg & Company, LLC
- LCatterton in its investment in Equinox Fitness Clubs
- McDonald’s Corporation in its:
- sale of Dynamic Yield to Mastercard
- sale of McD Tech Labs to IBM
- Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. in its PIPE investment fromL Catterton as part of Norwegian’s multi-tranche financing for aggregate proceeds of up to $2.4 billion
- Polestar Performance AB in its $20 billion combination with Gores Guggenheim Inc.
- Sentinel Capital Partners in its sale of Sonny’s Enterprises
- Starwood Capital Group in its:
- $2.85 billion acquisition of Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust
- sale of BR Guest Hospitality to Landry's
- Sycamore Partners in connection with its $6.9 billion acquisition of Staples, Inc.
- Two Sigma Impact and BayPine in the acquisition of Penn Foster
- Vestar Capital Partners in its:
- investment in Simple Mills
- investment in Information Resources, Inc., a leading provider of big data and market research, alongside New Mountain Capital
- Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of WebPT
