Mayer Brown advises leading fresh chicken brand Foster Farms on sale to private equity firm Atlas Holdings

Mayer Brown advised long-standing firm client and chicken processor, Foster Farms, on its sale to private equity firm Atlas Holdings. The Mayer Brown team was led by Los Angeles-based Corporate & Securities partners Paul de Bernier and Stephanie Hurst, both of whom specialize in food and beverage M&A.

Foster Farms is a family-owned provider of fresh, frozen and prepared poultry products headquartered in Livingston, California with approximately 10,000 skilled team members and with major processing facilities in several states, including California, Washington, Louisiana, Oregon and Alabama.

Foster Farms, which generates revenues of approximately $3 billion annually, will continue to operate under the Foster Farms name. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.