LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Blake Dawson Waldron acted for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company on the US$1.475 billion sale of its Engineered Products Division (EPD) to global private equity firm Carlyle Partners IV, L.P. The EPD business manufactures engineered rubber products for industrial, military, consumer and transportation equipment.
Blake Dawson Waldron Corporate partner and team leader, Arthur Apos said: “This has been an excellent example of team work with Goodyear and its other advisers in managing the successful exit of the EPD business from the Goodyear group and in ensuring that the Australian aspects dovetailed in a timely and consistent way with the overall global transaction”.
Blake Dawson Waldron worked closely with Goodyear’s primary US legal advisers, Thompson Hine and Goodyear’s US and Australian in-house teams. Arthur Apos led the Blake Dawson Waldron team which comprised of Nathan Stirling (Corporate), Andrew Deane, Adam Borowski, Jane Hall (Property/Environmental), Teresa Dyson, Bronwyn Kirkwood, Suzanne Kneen (Tax), Vince Rogers, Gina Capasso (Employment), Paul Jenkins, James Morris and Aimie Killeen (Financial Services).
