Colin Bumby. Photo: Kramer LevinKramer Levin Hires McGuireWoods Private Equity Partner
Colin Bumby has moved to Kramer Levin in New York after less than a year at McGuireWoods, attracted to his new firm's private equity client base and its entrepreneurial drive.
January 03, 2020 at 06:19 PM
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Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel has added Colin Bumby, a private equity deal partner from McGuireWoods.
Bumby, who spent just 11 months at McGuireWoods and made partner there in his move from Latham & Watkins, said a recruiter came to him about the opportunity at Kramer Levin in late 2019 and he "simply couldn't pass up" what was being offered.
Bumby, who joined the firm's New York office as a partner Thursday, said he was excited for the chance to build his own practice and work with Kramer Levin's established clients.
"Kramer Levin has a great private equity platform," he said in an interview. "The firm represents a number of important sponsor clients—Stone Point, Sentinel, Quad Partners, Atlantic Street and Paine Schwartz—and also a number of strategics, including BlackRock and Vici."
While he said he didn't know many people at Kramer Levin before the move, he met more than 90% of its corporate partners in the process of interviewing, some of whom he spoke with multiple times. He said he appreciated the transparency and enthusiasm Howard Spilko, one of the firm's co-managing partners, showed during the process.
Kramer Levin said Bumby represents private equity funds, their companies, and public and private companies in transactions including mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, carve-outs, joint ventures and strategic partnerships. He's worked on deals worth a total of more than $45 billion. His former McGuireWoods profile indicates $23 billion worth of those deals involved power generation facilities.
According to his former McGuireWoods profile, he advised on Cerberus Capital Management's $9.4 billion take-private purchase of Safeway Inc. and several deals for Energy Capital Partners and LS Power Equity Advisers.
Bumby was at Latham & Watkins as an associate, and then as counsel, for about 11 years before moving to McGuireWoods in early 2019. Asked about his short time there, he reiterated that the opportunity at Kramer Levin was too good to pass up; he said McGuireWoods was "a great firm" and he was sad to leave.
A McGuireWoods spokesman didn't respond to a comment request.
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