Hamilton Clarke represents a wide array of clients, from some of the world’s largest private funds and corporations to small, emerging growth and entrepreneurial companies. We represent these clients in mergers and acquisitions (both public and private), corporate law and governance, joint ventures, investment transactions, distressed investments and special situations, financing, debt and equity capital raises, and restructurings.

Our attorneys have decades of experience across a broad array of industries, including financial services, asset management, technology, entertainment, industrial and services businesses.  We represent Fortune 500 companies, leading private equity funds, financial institutions, hedge funds and emerging companies, in transactions ranging from small and middle market deals to those with a value of several billion dollars.

• One of the largest hedge funds in the world in connection with over two dozen distressed investments, including in Amplify Energy, Breitburn, Caesar’s Entertainment, Chapparral Energy, Chesapeake Energy, Claire’s, Energy Future Intermediate Holdings, iHeart, Intelsat, Linn Energy, MEMP, Nortel, Oi, Peabody, Rue21, Seventy Seven Energy, Warrior Met Coal
• Leading hedge fund in the sale of a $1.1 billion portfolio of assets
• One of the largest hedge funds in the world in connection with its investment in Fannie Mae/ Freddie Mac
• Leading credit manager on a $335 million bond exchange (including into part PIK) transaction of a restaurant chain
• Large credit fund on restructuring the capital structure of a for-profit education company
• Leading credit fund in the acquisition of a credit derivatives products company from a major bank
• Hedge fund in the acquisition of the largest cattle feed lot company in the United States
• CIO of a credit hedge fund in its spin-off from a private equity group, and subsequent investment by a seed investor into the management company
• Business development company in the bankruptcy case, as senior secured creditor, of Ebony Media, resulting in the successful sale of Ebony Media and 100% recovery of its investment.  Orchestrated the sale of assets to a well-known former NBA player, and utilized a credit bid strategy (in partnership with a large hedge fund) to support the deal pricing given no competitor bids
• Bank in the spin-off of its collective investment trust business
• Shareholder in connection with a squeeze-out merger
• Insurance company in the sale of its GP and seed LP interests in a real estate asset manager/ fund
• Hedge fund in the acquisition and funding of litigation claims
• Hedge fund in connection with investments in biotechnology companies and the acquisition of a litigation claim in Europe
• Australian government backed defense technology company in the acquisition of the US defense division of a UK public company
• CIO of a credit hedge fund in its spin-off from a private equity group, and subsequent investment by a seed investor into the management company
• Major insurance company in connection with its co-investment with JC Flowers to acquire HSH Nordbank
• Leading specialist and market-making firm in the roll-up of the specialist business, involving in excess of a dozen acquisitions
• Hedge fund in numerous investments into energy MLPs
• Hedge fund in the sale of its 50% interest in the management entities to Philip Falcone
• Management in the management buy-out of Greenhill’s private equity division.