Kyle P. McHugh
Overview
Kyle McHugh is a corporate partner in the Firm’s Chicago office. Kyle represents private equity sponsors and public and private company clients in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, “take-private” transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, private financings, venture capital and other growth-based investments, recapitalizations and restructurings, as well as in related corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters.
Kyle has handled such matters on behalf of, among others, Apax Partners, Bain Capital, Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company, Chicago Growth Partners, GTCR, TCV, Thomas H. Lee Partners, ParkerGale, Sycamore Partners and Vista Equity Partners.
Kyle was selected by Super Lawyers magazine as a Rising Star in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Experience
Representative Matters
Bain Capital in the following matters:
- together with Vista Equity Partners and CentralSquare Technologies in the acquisition of Tellus Safety Solutions, LLC
- together with Golden Gate Capital and BMC Software in the sale of BMC from a private investor group led by Bain and Golden Gate (including GIC, Insight Venture Partners and Elliott Management) to KKR
- together with Daymon Worldwide in the merger of Daymon Worldwide into Advantage Solutions
- together with Consolidated Container Co. in the $1.2 billion sale of Consolidated Container Co. to Loews Corp.
GTCR in the following matters:
- in the $300 million sale of Flavor Producers to Glanbia
- in the strategic minority investment by Carlyle into CAPTRUST, which implied a valuation of CAPTRUST equal to $3.7 billion
- in the $1.6 billion acquisition of ADT’s Commercial Fire and Security Business Segment from ADT
- in the recapitalization of its portfolio company, TerSera Therapeutics, and the related formation of a single-asset continuation fund
- together with PPC Flexible Packaging in the acquisition of StePac, MAPfresh Holdings
- together with PPC Flexible Packaging in the acquisition of Plastic Packaging Technologies
- in the acquisition of PPC Flexible Packaging LLC
- together with Insight Partners, Goldman Sachs, Sycamore and CommerceHub in the $663 million acquisition of ChannelAdvisor
- together with Dreamscape in the strategic acquisitions of, and subsequent combination between, SQAD LLC and Standard Media Index
- together with Sycamore Partners and CommerceHub in the strategic investment by Insight Ventures into CommerceHub
- together with Sycamore Partners and CommerceHub in the acquisition of Dsco
- together with Sycamore Partners in the $1.1 billion take-private acquisition of CommerceHub
- together with TerSera Therapeutics in the acquisition of XERMELO® from Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- together with Optimal Blue in the $1.8 billion sale of Optimal Blue to Black Knight, Inc.
- in the strategic investment in CAPTRUST Financial Advisors
- together with Apax Partners and AssuredPartners in the acquisition of Breckenridge Insurance Group, Inc., including the related property and casualty wholesale business line
- together with Apax Partners and AssuredPartners in the acquisition of Fred C. Church, Inc.
- together with Apax Partners and AssuredPartners in the acquisition of the primary business assets of each of Employee One Benefit Solutions, LLC, Evolution Healthcare, LLC and Cobecon II, LLC
- together with Apax Partners and AssuredPartners in the acquisition of Murray Insurance Associates, Inc.
- together with Apax Partners and AssuredPartners in the acquisition of LMC Insurance & Risk Management, Inc.
- together with Cedar Gate Partners in the minority investment by Ascension Ventures into Cedar Gate Partners
- together with Cedar Gate Partners in the acquisition of Global Healthcare Alliance, Inc.
Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. in the following matters:
- together with CARET in the strategic divestiture of its HotDocs business line to Mitratech
- together with House of Design in the strategic investment by Cullinan Holdings in House of Design
- in the $1.4 billion sale of Nextech to TPG
- together with Intelligent Medical Objects in the acquisition of Melax Technologies, Inc.
- together with AmeriLife Group in the strategic investment by Genstar Capital in AmeriLife Group
- in the strategic investment in Carpe Data
- in the strategic investment as the lead investor in the $130 million Series A financing of KINEXON
- in the strategic investment as the lead investor in the $50 million Series C financing of Qventus, Inc.
- together with EQT and SoftBank in the $315 million initial public offering of AutoStore Holdings on the Oslo Børs Stock Exchange, which implied a value of AutoStore Holdings equal to $12.4 billion
- together with EQT in the $2.8 billion sale of 40% of AutoStore Systems to SoftBank
- in the acquisition of AutoStore Systems
- in the acquisition of House of Design LLC
- in the acquisition of Bazaarvoice, Inc.
- in the strategic investment as the lead investor in the $100 million Series D financing of FourKites, Inc.
- in the acquisition of Care Hospice
- in the acquisition of AmeriLife Group
- in the acquisition of Centria Healthcare
- in the acquisition of Nextech Systems
- in the acquisition of Fortna Inc.
- together with Material Handling Systems, Inc. in the acquisition of A2i Holdings, LLC
- together with Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division in the $1.25 billion sale of GCA Services Group, Inc. to ABM Industries Incorporated
Thompson Street Capital Partners in the following matter:
- together with Cequel III in the strategic investment in DDC Cabinet Technology
Prior Experience
McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Corporate Department
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Recognition
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2015Illinois
Education
- Indiana University Maurer School of LawJ.D.cum laude2015
- Indiana UniversityB.S., Accounting & Financewith Distinction2012