Seward & Kissel Wins M&A Deal of the Year Recognition from ACG

June 19, 2014

The winners of the 2014 ACG New York Champion’s Awards were revealed on June 19th at the 4th Annual Awards Gala held at the Metropolitan Club in New York. The Awards, sponsored by the New York Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, recognize companies, individual dealmakers and transactions in the middle market mergers and acquisitions industry in the greater New York area. A panel of 13 independent M&A industry judges selected winners from over 350 participating companies across all award categories. A transaction handled by Seward & Kissel’s Business Transactions Group was again named the winner of an M&A Deal of the Year award:

Acquisition of Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management by
The Carlyle Group

-was Winner of-

Deal of the Year (Over $25mm to $50mm)

Seward & Kissel is proud to have represented Metropolitan in connection with this award-winning deal. In addition, Seward & Kissel was a Finalist for 2014 Law Firm of the Year.

The Firm’s Business Transactions Group handles middle-market M&A, private equity, venture capital and joint venture transactions. It has market-leading experience on M&A transactions involving investment management, broker-dealer, media and shipping businesses and also regularly handles international, sell-side M&A deals in a variety of industries. The Firm is ranked Highly Regarded for Corporate/M&A by Chambers USA and is recommended by The Legal 500 in the middle market M&A category.