Monica Kwok Named Up & Coming Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Each year, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly highlights 20 “rising stars” – Massachusetts lawyers who have been members of the bar for 10 years or less, but who have already distinguished themselves in some manner and appear poised for even greater accomplishments.
Monica Kwok, a private equity M&A attorney at Weil, Gotshal & Manges was named one of the Up & Coming Lawyers for 2022 for excellence in the law.
Monica has a broad transactional and corporate counseling practice with a focus on the representation of private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies with respect to leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and other corporate transactions. She also has significant experience counseling founder-owned companies on general corporate matters and liquidity transactions.
Monica representative private equity clients include Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, The Gores Group, Brookfield, Berkshire Partners, Advent International and Charlesbank and her selected deal experience is as follows:
Gores Holdings IV, Inc., a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of The Gores Group, in its $16.1 billion business combination with United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC (UWM).
Brookfield Business Partners L.P., together with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and other institutional partners, in its $13.2 billion acquisition of Johnson Controls’ Power Solutions.
Bain Capital in its acquisition of a 60% stake in Kantar Media, in a deal valuing Kantar at $3.5 billion.
Advent International in the following:
$3 billion merger of its portfolio companies Clearent LLC and Transaction Services Group Limited to form Xplor Technologies;
AI Beauty Holdings’ acquisition of bareMinerals, BUXOM and Laura Mercier from Shiseido Americas;
$350 million sale of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to Jollibee Foods Corp, the largest restaurant company in the Philippines; and
Noosa Yogurt’s merger with Sovos Brands.
GS Acquisition Holdings Corp II, a SPAC sponsored by Goldman Sachs, in its $2.6 billion business combination with Mirion Technologies, Inc. (at the time, a portfolio company of Charterhouse Capital Partners).
Charlesbank Capital Partners, together with Robert Long and Blair Ramey of Sanofi’s North American Consumer Healthcare division, in the formation of Bridges Consumer Healthcare LLC and in Bridges' acquisition of the North American rights to ThermaCare® HeatWraps.
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. in its joint venture with Mercuria Energy Trading Inc. to acquire and operate American Natural Gas LLC.
