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Jay has represented

• Artal Luxembourg in numerous M&A and venture capital investment transactions, including its auction sale of Nellson Nutraceutical and convertible preferred and bridge financings of Yellowbrick Solutions and Avantec Vascular
• Birch Hill Equity Partners in connection with its organization, fund formation, and fund-raising activities for Birch Hill Equity Partners III and IV
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in connection with its U.S. private equity investments, including its investments in the BondDesk Group, National Bedding, the Continental Group, VNU B.V., NXP B.V. (Phillips Semiconductor), the Berliner Verlag Group, Univision, Generac Power Systems, and Telediffusion de France
• Canada Post Corporation in connection with its private equity investment in Kelso Investment Associates VIII, L.P.
• Dyson-Kissner-Moran in numerous acquisitions and dispositions, including its acquisitions of Tri City Extrusions, Universal Enterprises and All Night Media and its auction sales of Wabash Magnetics to Kurz-Kasch, Wabash Technologies, Inc. to Sun Capital Partners, and its Spectrol U.S. potentiometers and related electrical components business to Vishay
• EdgeStone in its US$210 million sale of Hair Club to Regis Corporation
• FTI Technologies Holdings in numerous convertible preferred stock and bridge financings, including its two tranche Series E Convertible Preferred Stock financings
• Future Fund Board of Guardians
• in its 2011 co-investment with Advent Global Private Equity VI in connection with the Euro $1.15 billion acquisition of Oberthur Technologies S.A.
• in its 2010 acquisition of Limited Partnership Interests in Horsley Bridge VII, L.P., Horsley Bridge VIII, L.P., Horsley Bridge International II, L.P. and Horsley Bridge International III, L.P.
• Gas Components Group in its acquisitions of the Sourdillion Group, Burner Systems International, and Production Engineering Components, as well as in its debt and equity financings
• Guest Supply in its sale to SYSCO through a public exchange offer and merger transaction
• The Invus Group in their buyout and venture capital investments
• La Caisse de Dépôt in connection with its U.S. private equity investments, including Cornice, Inc., Cobalt International Energy, Enbridge Energy Management, and Quantum Resources
• Nellson Nutraceutical in its acquisition of the nutritional food bar business of Increda-Meal
• OMERS Capital Partners in its U.S. private equity investments, including Apax US VII, L.P., Berkshire Partners, First Data Corporation and NXP B.V
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
• in connection with its 2011 investment in InSight Pharmaceuticals Corporation to help finance InSight’s acquisition of the Monistat brand and certain related assets
• in connection with its 2011 follow-on investment in INC Research to help finance INC Research's US $232 million acquisition of Kendle International Inc.
• as lead investor in Manabi Holding S.A. to fund Manabi’s acquisition of a Brazilian mining venture in 2011
• in connection with its 2010 investment, as part of a US$1.8 billion consortium of international investors, in new shares of BTG Pactual, Brazil’s leading investment bank
• in connection with the 2010 US$815 million sale of The Hillman Group and subsidiaries thereof by Oak Hill Capital Partners from Teachers Private Capital and Code Hennessy & Simmons
• in connection with the 2010 acquisition of INC Research by Teachers Private Capital and Avista Capital Partners
• in the 2008 C$12.1 billion consortium bid with GS Global Infrastructure Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Transurban for the Pennsylvania Turnpike Concession
• in its 2007 acquisition of Glass Lewis LLC
• in the 2007 & 2008 Series C Preferred Stock venture capital investments of Teachers’ Private Capital in Portola Pharmaceuticals
• as lead investor in the 2007 C$1.285 billion equity investment in OGX Petroleo e Gas SA
• in connection with the 2007 US$1.6 billion acquisition by Teachers’ Private Capital and CCMP Capital Asia of the Yellow Pages unit of Telecom of New Zealand
• in numerous other direct investments of Teachers’ Private Capital, including its direct investments in Easton Bell Sports, AIR-serv Holdings, Neptune Technology Group, Multifoods Distribution Group and The Hillman Group
• in numerous fund investment activities, including its investments in Century Focused Fund III, Providence Equity Partners VI, Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners, Diamond Castle Partners, Wellspring Capital Partners, TCV L.P., DAG Ventures, DDJ Credit Opportunities, Newport Global Opportunities Fund, Wind Point Capital Partners VII, Mayfield XIII, Aisling Capital III, Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners and Gottex Real Asset Fund
• Patterson Broadcasting in its acquisitions and consolidation of radio stations throughout the United States and in its sale to Capstar Broadcasting, a portfolio company of Hicks, Muse, Tate, and Furst
• PB Capital in its senior and mezzanine secured financings, including its senior secured credit facility with Avalon Holding and the restructuring and recapitalization of Giftware Holdings
• PNC Business Credit in its senior secured asset-based acquisition financings, including those of priNexus, Protective Technologies International, Comforce Corporation, Sweet Ovations LLC, Regal Kitchens, Insl-x Products Corporation, SeatonCorp, Creative Group Inc. and United Initiators, Inc.
• Royal Bank Capital Partners in its auction sale of all of the membership interests of Global Clay Products to Glen-Gery
• Royal Bank Equity Partners in its investment in Realpulse.com convertible preferred stock
• Star Manufacturing and Beechtree Capital Partners in the leveraged recapitalization of Star Manufacturing and related transactions, including Star’s issuance of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
• The Thomson Corporation in its all-cash tender offer for all the outstanding shares of common stock of NewsEdge, and in the multi-billion dollar sale of Thomson’s U.S. newspaper business
• Toronto Dominion Mezzanine Partners in its secured mezzanine acquisition financing of Aurafin LLC

Jay co-chaired the agreement sub-committee charged with the preparation of a model limited partnership agreement with commentary as a member of an ad hoc committee of leading institutional investors.