REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

Capital Markets

  • Represented AIG in multiple offerings for senior notes, junior subordinated bonds totaling more than $10 billion from 2015 to 2021.

  • Represented Silicon Valley Bank in $500 million public offering of senior notes

  • Represented Silicon Valley Bank in $350 million public offering of depositary shares representing interests in Series A preferred stock.  

  • Represented Bayer in exchange offer for target’s senior notes with respect to $60 billion acquisition.

  • Represented Softbank in issue of $10 billion of exchangeable securities..

  • Represented Bayer in exchange offer for target’s senior notes with respect to $60 billion acquisition.

  • Represented underwriters in $200 million public offering of senior notes.

  • Primary attorney advising AIG in connection with Exchange Act reports.

  • Primary associate advising pharmaceutical company in connection with Exchange Act reports.

  • Primary associate advising entertainment company in connection with Exchange Act reports.

  • Primary associate advising Pershing Square in public offering of $500 million of shares in Nomad Foods.

M&A Principal Representation

  • CALIDA Holding AG (Switzerland) in its $80 million acquisition of Luemme, Inc. (Italy and US) in the apparel industry. 

  • Media and entertainment conglomerate in its unannounced joint venture in the music industry.

  • Non-profit in its unannounced joint venture with private equity entity in the entertainment industry.

  • Merck in its $11.5 billion acquisition of Acceleron Pharma, Inc.

  • Indivior (UK) in its $145 million acquisition of Opiant Pharmaceuticals.

  • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, as a member of a consortium led by Brookfield Infrastructure (Bermuda), in the $1.3 billion sale of its interest in ETC Transmission Holdings S.L. (Spain), the parent company of Transelec S.A. (Chile), to China Southern Power Grid International (HK) Co., Ltd.

  • Data services company in its proposed acquisition of a technology company.

  • Western World Insurance Company in its $690 million acquisition by Validus Holdings.

  • Energy company in its proposed acquisition of a utility company.

  • UIL Holdings in its proposed acquisition of Philadelphia Gas Works.

M&A Financial Advisory

  • Goldman Sachs as financial adviser to Delphi Technologies (UK) in its $3.3 billion acquisition by BorgWarner.

  • Evercore as financial adviser to Grubhub in its $7.3 billion acquisition by Just Eat Takeway.com (Netherlands).

  • Centerview Partners and Guggenheim Securities as joint financial advisers to MyoKardia in its $13.1 billion acquisition by Bristol Myers Squibb.

  • Goldman Sachs as financial adviser to Baker Hughes International in connection with its combination with General Electric’s oil & gas business.

  • Rothschild as a financial adviser to NextGen Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC, in its $3.2 billion acquisition of Virgin Orbit through its parent company Vieco USA, under which Virgin Orbit became a publicly traded company, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Goldman Sachs, as co-lead placement agents for the related $100 million PIPE.

  • Goldman Sachs as financial adviser to QUALCOMM in its intended acquisition of NXP Semiconductors.

  • Bank of America as financial adviser to Mexican toll road operator Red de Carreteras de Occidente in its acquisition by Abertis (Spain) and GIC (Singapore), LatinFinance’s “Private Equity Deal of the Year”.

  • Goldman Sachs as financial adviser to O-I Glass, Inc. in its sale of its Australia and New Zealand business unit to Visy Industries (Australia) and related sale-leaseback agreement with Charter Hall (Australia) for gross proceeds of $652 million.

  • Credit Suisse as financial adviser to New York Life Insurance Company in its $6.3 billion acquisition of Cigna Corporation’s group life and disability insurance business.

  • Rothschild as financial adviser to Cision and its Board of Directors and Centerview Partners as financial adviser to Cision in its $2.74 billion acquisition by an affiliate of Platinum Equity.

  • Bank of America as financial adviser to Sempra Energy in its $3.59 billion sale of its Peruvian businesses, including its 83.6% stake in Luz del Sur (Peru), to China Yangtze Power International (Hongkong) and $2.23 billion sale of its Chilean businesses, including its 100% stake in Chilquinta Energia (Chile) to State Grid International (China).

  • Goldman Sachs as financial adviser to The Simply Good Foods Company in its $1 billion acquisition of Quest Nutrition.

  • Goldman Sachs as financial adviser to Dell Technologies in connection VMWare’s $2.7 billion acquisition of Pivotal Software, including common stock of Pivotal held by Dell Technologies.

  • Goldman Sachs as financial adviser to Ingersoll Rand (Ireland) in its Reverse Morris Trust transaction whereby Ingersoll Rand spun-off its Industrial segment to shareholders and simultaneously merged the Industrial segment with and into Gardner Denver in a combination valued of approximately $15 billion.

  • Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Limited, a subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation, as financial adviser to Sapura Energy Berhad (Malaysia) in its agreement with OMV AG (Austria) under which OMV Exploration and Production GmbH (Austria), a wholly owned subsidiary of OMV, bought a 50% stake of the enlarged issued share capital in a newly-formed joint venture company, SEB Upstream Sdn Bhd (SUP) for $540 million.

  • Goldman Sachs as exclusive financial adviser to Ultimate Software in its $11 billion acquisition by an investor group led by Hellman & Friedman.

  • Goldman Sachs as financial adviser to Marsh & McLennan Companies in its $6.4 billion acquisition of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (U.K).

  • Goldman Sachs as financial advisor to Multi-Color Corporation in its $2.5 billion acquisition by an affiliate of Platinum Equity.

  • Goldman Sachs as exclusive financial adviser to NASCAR Holdings in its $2 billion acquisition of International Speedway.