Big Firms Alight Behind Yankee Candle Maker's Holiday Megadeal
Just in time for the holiday season, five firms led by Jones Day are handling the sale of Yankee Candle maker Jarden Corp. to Newell Rubbermaid Inc., a $15.4 billion deal creating a consumer products giant with enough brands to fill several Christmas catalogs.
December 14, 2015 at 05:12 PM
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Just in time for the holiday season, four firms are advising on the $15.4 billion sale of consumer products company Jarden Corp. to industry giant Newell Rubbermaid Inc. in a megamerger with enough products to fill several Christmas catalogs.
The cash-and-stock deal, the latest in a series of transactions by both companies, will create a consumer products conglomerate called Newell Brands that unites the owners of popular household items such as Coleman coolers, Crock-Pot cookers, Graco baby strollers, Mr. Coffee machines, Oster and Sunbeam kitchen appliances, Rawlings baseball gloves, Sharpie pens and scented candle stalwart Yankee Candle.
Jarden, whose general counsel is former Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer John Capps, has turned to two longtime legal advisers at Greenberg Traurig and New York's Kane Kessler to handle the terms of its proposed sale to Newell, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2016.
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