Editor's note: This article is from The American Lawyer's April issue.

Last year's move to take Dun & Bradstreet private was not your grandfather's deal.

In 2018, D&B, which sells business information and reported about $1.7 billion in revenue in its last full year as a public company, parted ways with its CEO and brought in consultants from McKinsey & Co. in search of a boost. With its stock in the $120s, it was in talks with several private equity firms about taking a minority stake. And then Chinh Chu came along.