A&O Shearman represents J.F. Lehman & Company in its acquisition of Atomic Transport and Creekside

Atomic Transport, a specialized waste services company, operates 30 terminals across 19 U.S. states. J.F. Lehman completed the acquisition of Atomic Transport in a partnership with the company’s management. The closing was announced on February 20 in a press release.

The purchase of Creekside represents PURIS' first strategic acquisition since J.F. Lehman led a recapitalization of The Woodlands, Texas-based company in 2024 via a single asset continuation fund. Creekside is an infrastructure and environmental services provider with customers throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern United States. The closing of the deal was announced on February 24 in a press release.

J.F. Lehman & Company, based in New York and Washington, D.C., focuses exclusively on investing in the aerospace, defense, maritime, government and environmental industries.

The A&O Shearman team that represented J.F. Lehman in its acquisition of Atomic Transport was led by private equity and M&A partners Alain Dermarkar and Kyle Park, and private equity and M&A associates John Kurtz, Samantha Favela and Ian Johnson, and included debt finance partner Michael Steinberg, debt finance associates Ashley Shan and Dhruti Tummalapalli, tax partner Dave Lewis, compensation, employment, pensions and governance (CEPG) partner Jai Garg, antitrust partner Jonathan Cheng, environmental and sanctions partner Jason Pratt, M&A partners JB Betker and Helen Christakos, senior tax counsel John Hibbard, tax associate Daniel Kachmar, CEPG associates Janice Perri and Elizabeth Edel, antitrust associates Rebecca McCraw, Eun Joo Hwang and Kiko Demetriou, environmental and sanctions associate James Daher, M&A associates Austin Grossfeld and Sonya Aggarwal, and energy, natural resources and infrastructure (ENRI) paralegal Christian Cho.

The A&O Shearman team that represented J.F. Lehman in its acquisition of Creekside was led by private equity and M&A partners Alain Dermarkar and Robert Cardone, private equity and M&A associates John Kurtz, Elizabeth Robishaw and Hamza Mallick, and included private equity and M&A partner Kyle Park and associate Efren Lemus, debt finance partner Michael Steinberg and associates Ashley Shan and Jarold Ramirez, tax partner Dave Lewis, CEPG partner Jai Garg, environmental and sanctions partner Jason Pratt, M&A partners JB Betker and Helen Christakos, senior tax counsel John Hibbard, CEPG associates Janice Perri, Alexandra Sentner, and Stephen Ponticello, environmental and sanctions associate Brendan Holman, and M&A associates Austin Grossfeld and Sonya Aggrawal, and ENRI paralegal Christian Cho.