Kevin Fischer is the co-leader of the firm’s Private Equity Group. He regularly advises private equity funds and public and private company clients in connection with a broad range of corporate transactional matters. Mr. Fischer has significant experience with multinational and domestic mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, public and private offerings of securities, general commercial transactions and corporate governance matters. Mr. Fischer has experience across a broad range of industries, including business services, energy, financial services and insurance, manufacturing and industrial products, technology and telecommunications.

Mr. Fischer’s practice also focuses on corporate and regulatory insurance matters, including the design, formation and operation of captive insurance companies and the negotiation of reinsurance treaties.

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Mr. Fischer’s experience has included the representation of:

• Emerson Electric Co. in connection with numerous acquisition and divestiture transactions, including transactions in Mexico and the United Kingdom
• Energizer Holdings, Inc. in its acquisition of the Schick razor business from Pfizer Inc.
• AEA Investors LP in connection with numerous acquisition, divestiture and financing transactions
• Sprint Nextel Corporation in connection with acquisitions of FCC licenses and various owned and leased telecommunications assets
• Publicly traded companies in connection with various international restructuring transactions
• A Fortune 100 company in connection with the design and formation of a captive insurance company, including obtaining regulatory approval for the captive’s stop loss reinsurance product

Bar and Court Admissions

Missouri, 2000

Georgia, 1996

Education

Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1996

The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., with high honors, 1993

Languages

French