April 19, 2010

Kramer Levin served as counsel to Moelis & Company, which served as the exclusive financial advisor to the Cornell Companies in the latter's merger with the GEO Group, valued at approximately $685 million. Cornell Companies is a private provider of corrections, treatment and educational services outsourced by federal, state and local government agencies.The GEO Group is a private provider of correctional, detention and residential treatment services to federal, state and local government agencies.

The Kramer Levin team that advised Moelis included Corporate partner Thomas D. Balliett and associate Carol Archer, Tax partner Howard J. Rothman and special counsel Helayne Oberman Stoopack.