Paul Hastings Corporate Team Represents Equinox in Acquisition of Remaining Sports Club/LA Fitness Clubs

July 28, 2014

New York, NY - Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Equinox, a sports and fitness club company, in acquiring assets from Millennium Partners for $110 million.

The purchased assets include the remaining Sports Club/LA fitness clubs in New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Boston and Miami, as well as the Reebok Sports Club/NY fitness club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

M&A partner Tom Kruger led the Paul Hastings team, which also included associates Julie O’Neill, Mark Nylen, Natasha Chua Tan and Sergey Milyukov. Antitrust partner C. Scott Hataway and associates Ryan Decker and Noah Pinegar and Employee Benefits partners Stephen Harris and Mark Poerio also advised on the transaction.

Paul Hastings has advised Equinox on numerous strategic acquisitions and financings for nearly a decade. In 2011, Paul Hastings also advised Equinox on the purchase of four of The Sports Club/LA fitness clubs located in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Orange County and New York's Rockefeller Center. The firm also assisted Equinox in purchasing SoulCycle in May 2011.

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