Overview
Tom Kruger is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's New York office. He focuses on corporate finance, securities law matters, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Kruger has extensive transactional experience representing publicly and privately held U.S. and non-U.S. entities in U.S. and non-U.S. acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, divestitures, public and private securities offerings, and financings.
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1969
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, B.A., 1966 (with distinction)
Involvement
Member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Connecticut, and Chairman of the Financial Affairs Committee and Special Transactions Committee of the Board
Recent Representations
A consortium led by Five Mile Capital Partners LLC that included Goldman Sachs and KKR in their $1.3 billion purchase of General Motors Acceptance Corporation's commercial mortgage business
FairPoint Communications, Inc. in its $2.7 billion acquisition of Verizon Communication's Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont landline business and the negotiation and documentation of the related bank and bond financing
The Related Companies, L.P. in connection with its issuance and sale of $1.4 billion of equity interests to sovereign wealth and private equity funds
The Related Companies, L.P. in connection with its $500 million acquisition of Equinox Holdings, Inc., a national operator of full-service fitness clubs, and the negotiation and documentation of the related bank and note financing
Oxbow Carbon & Minerals in connection with its investment in an Indian-based port facilities operator
MXenergy in connection with its acquisition of the retail residential energy business of Shell Oil Company and the negotiation and documentation of a Rule 144A offering of $190 million of senior notes and a $280 million credit facility and hedge facility
Tyne Consortium (composed of Five Mile Capital Partners LLC and Olympus Partners) on their approach to acquire Northern Rock PLC