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  4. Freshfields Advises Turnspire Capital Partners on its Acquisition of LifeLine Foods and ICM BioFuels to Form The LifeLine Group
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Freshfields Advises Turnspire Capital Partners on its Acquisition of LifeLine Foods and ICM BioFuels to Form The LifeLine Group

Nov 13 2025

Global law firm Freshfields advised Turnspire Capital Partners LLC on its acquisition of LifeLine Foods LLC and ICM BioFuels LLC. The operations will be combined under The LifeLine Group, with the food business continuing to operate as LifeLine Foods, and the biofuels business being rebranded as LifeLine Biofuels. Turnspire’s partner in the formation of LifeLine is AgraMarke Quality Grains, Inc., a Missouri cooperative of corn farmers. Learn more about this transaction here.

The Freshfields team was led by partner Claire James and counsel Kevin Uhler and included associates Matthew Sieben, Andrew Cha and Charlie Carroll. Partner Allison Liff, counsel Kelsey Avery and associates Edina Cobaj and Andy Xu advised on leveraged finance matters; partner Joe Soltis and senior associate Courtney Canning advised on tax matters; partner Vinita Kailasanath and associate Juliana Zhang advised on intellectual property matters; partner Lori Goodman, counsel Andrew Herman and associate Meilun Chen advised on employee benefits and compensation matters; counsel Jeremiah Nelson and associates Casey Hagen and Kate Koudouna advised on real estate matters and counsel Greg Kahn and associate Shreyas Suresh advised on structured finance matters.

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Claire E. James

Head of New York Private Equity
New York

Kevin A. Uhler

Counsel
Silicon Valley

Andrew M. Cha

Associate
New York

Charles Carroll

Associate
New York

Kelsey Avery

Counsel
New York

Edina Cobaj

Associate
New York

Andy Xu

Associate
New York

Joe Soltis

Partner
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