Milbank LLP Corporate partner Dean Sattler was recognized as “Industrials & Infrastructure Dealmaker of the Year” by The Deal at the Middle Market Awards held in Chicago on March 26, 2019. The awards honored the leading lawyers, bankers, investors and advisers in middle market transactions. Honorees were selected based on their impact to the deal economy, the complexity of their deals and the process by which their deals were accomplished, in addition to size.
As a member of Milbank’s Global Corporate group, Mr. Sattler regularly represents buyers, investment consortiums, sellers and other market participants in complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investments, divestitures and joint ventures. Mr. Sattler’s clients include public and private companies, financial sponsors and hedge funds and span a broad range of industries, including infrastructure and transportation, space and satellite, telecommunications and technology, power and energy, finance, manufacturing and distribution. Mr. Sattler is also active in Milbank’s Corporate Governance Group, where he advises boards of directors and other senior management members on a variety of corporate governance and compliance matters.
Mr. Sattler’s recent transactions include Goshawk Aviation’s acquisition of Sky Leasing’s aircraft leasing business comprising 51 owned and committed aircraft valued at approximate US$2.8 billion, Apollo Aviation Group, a global commercial aviation investment and servicing firm with US$5.6 billion in assets under management, in its acquisition by The Carlyle Group, Intel’s US$15.3 billion acquisition of autonomous vehicle company Mobileye, Apollo Global Management’s US$1 billion acquisition of General Electric’s energy investment portfolio, and Altavair AirFinance’s over US$1 billion agreement to form a long-term partnership with leading global investment firm KKR & Co.
