Dechert is serving as legal advisor to The Brickman Group in its announced sale to KKR. The two announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which KKR will acquire Brickman for $1.6 billion from Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. and other shareholders.

Founded in 1939, Brickman is the leading provider of landscape maintenance and snow removal services in the U.S. With nearly 10,000 employees nationwide, Brickman serves a diversified base of over 10,000 clients, including some of the most well-respected companies and institutions in the U.S.

Dechert’s team includes Carmen Romano, Jeffrey Legath, Brad Pollack, Hamid Moghadam and Joshua Milgrim.