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By Natalie Posgate
(June 29) – Last week marked the official start of summer, but so far it appears to be all work, no play for Dallas corporate lawyer Glenn West.
The Weil, Gotshal & Manges partner earlier this week led the sale of Bluegrass Materials Company, a Florida-based maker of aggregates and concrete blocks, to building materials supplier, Martin Marietta Materials, for $1.6 billion.
Just a week before, he led Sacramento-based Golden West Packaging Group’s acquisition of four independent packaging companies and Cal Sheets, which is Golden West Packaging’s co-owned captive sheet feeder. The companies specialize in providing custom packaging in the wine, food and e-commerce markets.
Bluegrass Materials and Golden West Packaging are both portfolio companies of Lindsay Goldberg, a private equity firm that focuses on family-owned and entrepreneur-led businesses seeking a partner to help actively build their businesses.
In the Bluegrass Materials deal, West received assistance from Dallas tax partner Jonathan Macke and real estate attorney Leslie Smith. Attorneys based in Weil’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices also worked on the deal.
Founded in 2011, Bluegrass is the largest privately-held, pure-play aggregates company in the U.S. The purchase of Bluegrass will expand Martin Marrietta’s footprint in the southeastern U.S. when the deal closes in the fourth quarter. It also gives it access to granite quarries, a limestone plant and a sand plant.
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