Kirkland Advises Olympus on Sale of EyeSouth Partners’ Retina Business

Kirkland & Ellis advised Olympus Partners on the sale of the retina business of EyeSouth Partners for $1.1 billion. EyeSouth is an eye-care focused management services organization committed to partnering with leading ophthalmologists and medical optometrists with a mission of delivering high-quality medical and surgical specialty eye care. Following the transaction, Olympus Partners will retain ownership of the Anterior segment of the business.

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The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Matthew Goulding, Matthew Dunnet, Neil Tiwari, Emily Hong, Siddharth Rai, James Lauerman, Chris Glenn and Jason Tso; debt finance lawyers Omar Raddawi, Melissa Hutson, Yinan Guo, Tad Bardenwerper and Adam Mohamed; tax lawyers Roger Lucas and Allison Bray; technology and IP transactions lawyers Vlad Khodosh, Alex Barata and Roxana Azar; healthcare lawyers Dennis Williams, Micah Desaire, Lindsay Borgeson, Brian King, Alexa Auger and Marisa Nardelli; employee benefits lawyers Alexandra Mihalas, Caitlin Bernice Pyrce and Stew Dunoskovic; employment & labor lawyers R.D. Kohut, Kayla Garcia and Paul Vasiloff; executive compensation lawyers Frances Tompson, Monica Merino and Cameron Bateman; environmental transactions lawyers Jonathan Kidwell and Caitlin Meagher-Kreisel; real estate lawyers Roberto Miceli and Henry Harper; and antitrust & competition lawyers Stephanie Greco, Bethany Thomas, Michael Thorpe and Mackenzie Pike.