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Brooke A. Gillar

Partner

New Jersey
T: +1 973.422.6414 F: +1 973.422.6415 bgillar@lowenstein.com
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Brooke Gillar focuses her practice on strategic mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; complex corporate finance transactions; preferred equity financings, strategic investments, and securities offerings; securities law matters; and recapitalizations and restructurings. She also advises clients on a diverse spectrum of corporate governance matters and compliance issues. As an integral member of her clients' teams, Brooke is deeply committed to ensuring that each company thrives going forward.

Brooke has seized the opportunity to translate her lifelong passion for the business world into the application of her legal acumen across a broad range of business environments. In the mergers and acquisitions area, Brooke represents both buyers and sellers in a wide variety of public and private transactions, typically involving highly complex capital structures. Additionally, she has represented numerous private equity funds in connection with the acquisition, disposition, and restructuring of their portfolio companies. Brooke is adept at striking a balance between being amiable and knowing when to push hard in a negotiation.

Brooke also guides clients through wholesale exits and through acquisitions involving expansion and growth by strategically acquiring competitors, suppliers, and products.

  • Represented Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD) in a private offering of convertible notes in the aggregate principal amount of $450 million, which includes $75 million aggregate principal amount of notes issued pursuant to an option to purchase additional notes granted to the initial purchasers, which the initial purchasers exercised in full on October 31, 2024. In conjunction with the issuance of the Convertible Notes, the Company entered into capped call transactions with a cap price of $14.72 (representing a premium of 100% over the last reported sale price) and, pursuant to related share repurchases and prepaid forward repurchase transaction, repurchased approximately $84 million of the Company’s common stock. (November 2024)
  • Represented the management team of KPS Global LLC, a leading manufacturer of insulated panel systems and provider of highly customized solutions, in KPS Global’s sale from private equity firm D Cubed Group to Viessmann Generations Group, a German manufacturer of heating and refrigeration systems. (September 2024)
  • Represented Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: APLD), a designer, builder, and operator of next-generation digital infrastructure designed for High-Performance Computing (“HPC”) applications, in a committed equity facility of up to $250 million with YA II PN, LTD., a fund managed by Yorkville Advisors Global, LP, a $160 million private placement of common stock, and a private placement of $53.2 million of convertible preferred stock.
  • Represented ABRY Partners, LLC, a private equity investment firm focused on media, communications, insurance and business and information services, in connection with the PowerFleet, Inc. (NASDAQ: PWFL) and MiX Telematics Limited business combination. (April 2024)
  • Represented Riddell, Inc., the industry leader in football helmet technology and sports protection innovation, in a $400 million investment in Riddell by BC Partners Credit, the credit arm of BC Partners, a leading alternative asset management firm. (April 2024)
  • Represented CBRE Capital Advisors, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) in the asset sale to Sera Global, a leading global real assets advisor. (October 2023)
  • Represented an affiliate of the private equity firm ZMC, in its acquisition of InProduction Holding Corp. and its subsidiaries. (September 2023)

  • Represented Phreesia, Inc. (NYSE: PHR), a leader in patient intake, outreach and activation, in its acquisition of Access eForms, LLC, a provider of integrated paperless forms and workflows for healthcare facilities. (August 2023)

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Education

  • Seton Hall University School of Law (J.D. 2004), magna cum laude, Order of the Coif; Associate Articles Editor, Seton Hall Law Review

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (B.S. 2001), summa cum laude

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  • New Jersey

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