Quinton C. Farrar

Quinton C. Farrar is a corporate partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Quinton advises public and privately held companies, including private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with a wide variety of complex corporate transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, minority and strategic investments and restructurings.  He also has substantial experience advising clients on corporate governance and securities issues throughout the lifecycle of a company.

Quinton has represented numerous private equity clients including L Catterton, Macquarie Asset Management, Trilantic Capital Partners, TPG, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, Morgan Stanley, Evergreen Coast Capital and their portfolio companies.  Quinton’s public company clients have included J.P. Morgan Chase, Publicis Groupe, Primoris Services Corporation, Marsh & McLennan, Marriott,  and General Electric, among others.

Quinton was named “Rising Star” in Private Equity by Euromoney Legal Media Group and in M&A by New York Metro Super Lawyers. Quinton has also been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America (2025).

Quinton is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Washington Square Park Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization in New York City working with NYC Parks engaging volunteers and raising funds to help keep the park clean, safe and beautiful.

Quinton received his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, in 2012 from Fordham Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Fordham Law Review.  Prior to law school, Quinton served as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.  In 2007, Quinton received his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from the Boston College Honors Program.

Quinton is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Representative Strategic M&A Transactions:

• Altour: Represented Altour and its founder Alexandre Chemla in its sale to Travel Leaders Group.
• Atwood Oceanics: Represented Atwood Oceanics, Inc. in its $2 billion acquisition by Ensco plc.
• Contran Corporation: Represented Contran in the carve-out sale of Keystone Consolidated Industries, manufacturer of quality steel fabricated wire products to Liberty Steel.
• ExactTarget: Represented ExactTarget in its acquisition by Salesforce.com.
• General Electric: Represented GE Finance in a sale of a portfolio of investments in power and energy assets to Apollo.
• JPMorgan Chase: Represented JPMorgan Chase in its acquisition of assets of LayerOne Financial to expand the product offerings of its subsidiary NeoVest.
• Marriott International: Represented Marriott International in its contested $13.6 billion acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.
• Marsh & McLennan Companies: Represented MMC in a number of M&A transactions including the acquisitions of Wortham Insurance, International Catastrophe Insurance Managers (ICAT), Torrent Technologies and Dovetail Insurance Corporation and the carve-out sale of Marsh ClearSight, a business unit of Marsh & McLennan, to Riskonnect.
• NomNom: Represented NomNom, a fresh, direct to consumer pet food company, in its sale to Royal Canin, a petfood division of Mars.
• Prime Communications: Represented Prime Communications in the carve-out acquisition of the Spring Mobile business from GameStop Corp., which owns and operates 1,289 AT&T wireless stores.
• Primoris Services Corporation: Represented Primoris Services Corporation in its acquisition of Future Infrastructure Holdings, LLC from Tower Arch Capital LLC and other interest holders.
• Publicis Groupe: Represented Publicis Groupe in numerous transactions including its acquisitions of the Profitero, Retargetly, Abundancy, Ardent IO, RUN, Inc., Expicient Inc. and Hawkeye, Inc.
• Publicis Sapient: Represented Publicis Sapient, the digital business transformation company of Publicis Groupe, in its acquisition of Spinnaker SCA.
• Rocket Pharmaceuticals Inc: Represented Rocket Pharmaceuticals in its take-public reverse merger with Inotek Pharmaceuticals and Rocket’s subsequent first public offering of common stock.

Representative Private Equity Transactions:

• L Catterton: Represented L Catterton and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including:
  • The acquisition of Kettle Cuisine from Kainos Capital and the concurrent acquisition of Freshly from and formation of a joint venture with Nestle.
  • the going-private of Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group and the concurrent carveout sale of the Del Frisco’s steak business to Landry’s,
  • the acquisition of Saje Natural Wellness and
  • the strategic minority investment in Function of Beauty.
• Macquarie Asset Management: Represented Macquarie Asset Management in numerous transactions, including:
  • the acquisitions of the automated Long Beach Container Terminal in California, and acquisitions and divestitures port terminals in Long Beach, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Oakland, CA, Tacoma, WA and Newark, NJ.
  • Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V, a fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management, in connection with its acquisition of a 50% interest in a portfolio of eight Massachusetts hospitals from Medical Properties Trust, Inc., a publicly listed REIT, in a transaction that values the portfolio at $1.78 billion.
  • its joint venture with Porter Aviation Holdings, an air transportation services operator, to develop a new passenger terminal at Montréal Saint-Hubert Airport
• Morgan Stanley: Represented Morgan Stanley's Tactical Value Fund in connection with its minority investment in NN Inc., a diversified industrial company.  Represented Morgan Stanley’s 1GT sustainability fund in numerous investments.
• Oak Hill Capital Partners: Represented Oak Hill Capital Partners in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, Jacobson Companies, a third-party logistics firm, to Norbert Dentressangle, an air, sea and land transportation and logistics company.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners: Representation of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in connection with the sale of the Carlsbad desalination plant to Aberdeen Global Infrastructure.
• TPG: Represented TPG and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including the acquisition of DreamBox Learning, DreamBox’s Learning’s acquisition of Reading Plus, the subsequent sale of DreamBox Learning to Evergreen Coast Capital Corp., the acquisition of Q-Centrix from Sterling Partners and senior preferred growth equity investment in Neogene Therapeutics.
• Trilantic Capital Partners: Represented Trilantic and its portfolio companies in numerous transactions, including:
  • The acquisition of United Subcontractors and subsequent sale of United Subcontractors to TopBuild Corporation
  •  The creation of the Sunbelt Solomon Services (SBS) portfolio company platform and numerous acquisitions by SBS.
• Verlinvest: Represented Verlinvest as the lead preferred equity investor in the sale of Sir Kensington to Unilever.

Capabilities

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Infrastructure
• Private Equity
• Projects
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance

Credentials

Education:

• Fordham University - 2012 Juris Doctor
• Boston College - 2007 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• New York Bar