Transportation

Working collaboratively across the full array of our corporate practice areas, we advise clients involved in transportation on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, banking and credit matters, joint ventures, lease financing matters and project and structured financing transactions.

Our transportation transactions include:

• Stonepeak in its $7.4 billion acquisition of Textainer Group Holdings, which was named the 2024 Transport Acquisition of the Year in North America by IJInvestor, in the $1.75 billion acquisition by an affiliate of Textainer of Global Sea Containers (Seaco), and its acquisitions of several logistics assets strategically based near ports, the NAFTA Highway, and rail infrastructure across the United States
• Stonepeak in its acquisition and related financing of 9 logistics assets totaling 1.8 million square feet strategically based near the Port of Jacksonville, awarded the 2025 regional Impact Acquisition/Sale of the Year by CoStar
• Stonepeak in its $3.1 billion take-private acquisition of Air Transport Services Group, Inc., for which Stonepeak was named 2024 Global and North America Transport Investor of the Year by Infrastructure Investor
• Stonepeak in its $6.2 billion financing acquisition of Teekay LNG Partners including approx. 36 million common units owned by Teekay Corp. and 100% of Teekay Corp.’s ownership in Teekay LNG Partners L.P.’s, Teekay GP L.L.C.
• Wells Fargo in the sale of the assets of its rail equipment leasing business to a newly formed joint venture between GATX Corporation and Brookfield Infrastructure for $4.4 billion
• KKR in the sale of its 23.4% interest in Colonial Pipeline, the largest U.S. fuel transportation system, as part of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners’ acquisition of all Colonial Enterprises assets from its co-owners for $9 billion
• KKR in its acquisition of The Parking Spot from an affiliate of Green Courte Partners, LLC.
• KKR in the sale of a 19.9% stake in LOGISTEED (f/k/a Hitachi Transport System) to Japan Post for approximately $932 million, and its prior acquisition and related financing of Hitachi Transport System
• KKR in the acquisition of Dawsongroup plc, made as part of KKR’s Global Climate Strategy to support the electrification of Dawsongroup’s fleet, named the 2025 IJGlobal Investor Value-Add Deal of the Year, Europe
• KSL Capital Partners in its participation in an $800 million equity investment in Flexjet, as part of a consortium of strategic investors alongside L Catterton and the J. Safra Group, marking the largest equity investment ever in private aviation
• Depot Connect International in the sale of the tank truck assets of Linden Bulk Transportation
• TIP Group in the sale of its Canadian business, TIP Canada, to Transportation Equipment Network
• Genesee & Wyoming (G&W) in its $8.4 billion sale to affiliates of Brookfield Infrastructure and GIC and in the majority investment by Grupo México Transportes in G&W’s CG Railway joint venture
• Grupo Romero in the sale of a 50% stake in Trabajos Maritimos S.A. (“Tramarsa”) to Global Infrastructure Partners
• Carrix in the debt financing for its purchase of Ceres Terminals from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III
• Corsair Infrastructure in the $4.2 billion financial close of the development project with Vantage Airport Group to build a new international Terminal 6 at John F. Kennedy International airport