KKR North America Fund XIII SCSp managed by KKR & Co. Inc. entered into a securities and asset purchase agreement to acquire Engineering Solutions Business from IHS Markit Ltd. for approximately $980 million.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as financial advisor, and Jeffrey A. Brill, Stephen F. Arcano, Niels Baeten, Alec J. Jarvis, Matthew H. Nemeroff, David M. Rievman, Erica Schohn, David P. Wales and Andrew D. Woodard of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP acted as legal advisor to S&P Global, parent of IHS. RBC Capital Markets acted as financial advisor to KKR, and Marni Lerner, Naveed Anwar, David Rubinsky, Nancy Mehlman, William Smolinski, Sarah Lindley, Jessica Cohen, Adam Shapiro, Catherine Burns, Toby Chun, Peter Guryan, Kelly Karapetyan, Deepa Sarkar, Steve DeLott and Krista McManus of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP acted as legal advisor to KKR. Melanie Howard of Baker & Mckenzie acted as legal advisor to S&P Global.