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Our team regularly serves as outside counsel to a number of investment banks in their capacity as financial advisor in a wide variety of M&A transactions, including the following recent transactions:

• Broadcom’s $18.9 billion acquisition of CA Technologies.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific’s $17.4 billion acquisition of PPD.
• Univar Solutions’ $8.1 billion take-private sale to funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management.
• International Game Technologies’ simultaneous $6.3 billion sale of IGT’s Gaming & Digital business and Everi Holdings Inc. to Apollo.
• Conn’s $6.2 billion acquisition of W.S. Badcock.
• Quidel's $6 billion acquisition of Ortho Clinical Diagnostics and acquisition of Clarabridge.
• Lumentum’s $5.7 billion acquisition of Coherent.
• Sonoco’s $3.9 billion acquisition of Eviosys.
• The Estée Lauder Companies’ $2.8 billion acquisition of the TOM FORD brand.
• CommScope’s $2.1 billion sale of its Outdoor Wireless Networks and Distributed Antenna Systems businesses.

• Represented NFP in its $13.4 billion sale to Aon.
• Represented Cloudmed in its $4.1 billion sale to R1 RCM, Inc.
• Represented Annaly Capital Management in the $2.33 billion sale of its commercial real estate business to Slate Asset Management.
• Represented Sculptor Capital in its sale to Rithm Capital.
• Represented iCapital Network in its acquisition of Axio Financial LLC.
• Represented NFP and Wealthspire Advisors in Wealthspire’s acquisition of Private Ocean.
• Represented LPL Financial in its acquisition of National Planning Holdings, Inc and the wealth management business of Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc.
• Advised The Vistria Group in its sale of a minority stake to Hunter Point Capital and ADQ.
• Represented BrightSphere in its sale of a majority stake in Thompson, Siegel and Walmsley to Pendal Group Limited.
• Represented Gordon Brothers in an investment from Trident VII funds managed by Stone Point Capital LLC.
• Represented TPG’s global impact fund, The Rise Fund, in its investment in Varo Money, a mobile-banking financial technology company.
• Represented MUFG Investor Services in its acquisition of Guggenheim Investments’ 1940-Act mutual fund administration business, Rydex Fund Services.
• Represented Landmark Partners in the sale of a majority interest in Landmark to OM Asset Management plc.
• Represented State Street Bank and Trust Company in the acquisition of GE Asset Management (GEAM) from GE.
• Advised Gridiron Capital in its sale of a minority stake to RidgeLake Partners.

• Represented ImmunoGen in its $10.1 billion sale to AbbVie.
• Represented Becton, Dickinson and Company in its $4.2 billion acquisition of Edwards Lifesciences' Critical Care.
• Represented Summa Equity AB in the $3.1 billion sale of Olink Holding AB to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
• Represented Cardinal Health in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Specialty Networks and its $1.1 billion pending acquisition of Integrated Oncology Network (ION).
• Represented Pfizer Inc. in numerous strategic acquisitions with a combined equity value of over $50 billion, including acquisitions of Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Arena Pharmaceuticals, Trillium Therapeutics, Medivation and Hospira.
• Represented Paratek Pharmaceuticals in its $462 million sale to Gurnet Point Capital and Novo Holdings.
• Represented Provention Bio in a $2.9 billion sale to Sanofi.
• Represented Cambrex in its acquisition of Snapdragon Chemistry.
• Represented Signify Health in its $8 billion sale to CVS Health.
• Represented Ginkgo Bioworks in its:
• $300 million acquisition of Zymergen.
• strategic collaboration with Bayer.
• acquisition of Circularis.
• acquisition of Patch Biosciences.
• acquisition of AgBiome’s platform assets in agricultural biologics.
• Represented Galderma in its sale of Alchemee (f/k/a The Proactiv Company) to Taro Pharmaceuticals and acquisition of Alastin Skincare.
• Represented DentaQuest in its $2.475 billion sale to Sun Life Financial Inc.
• Represented Acceleron Pharma in its $11.5 billion sale to Merck & Co.
• Represented Medtronic in its $1.1 billion acquisition of Intersect ENT.
• Represented Surgery Partners Inc. in its $760 million acquisition of private equity-backed National Surgical Healthcare.
• Represented Shire plc in the $32 billion business combination with Baxalta Incorporated and $5.9 billion acquisition of Dyax.

• Represented Nippon Steel Corporation in its $14.9 billion pending acquisition of U. S. Steel.
• Represented CIRCOR International in its $1.6 billion take-private sale to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
•  Represented The L.S. Starrett Company in a take-private sale to MiddleGround Capital. 
• Represented Eversource Energy in several transactions, including:
  • $1.1 billion acquisition of Columbia Gas.
  • $1.675 billion acquisition of Aquarion Water Company
  • $625 million sale of its 50% interest in Danish energy company Ørsted.
  • and its subsidiary Aquarion Water Company in connection with Aquarion's acquisition of The Torrington Water Company and New England Service Company.
• Represented Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. in its acquisition of the fuel cell systems business of the fischer Group.
• Represented Altus Power in a $1.58 billion strategic business combination between Altus Power and CBRE Acquisition Holdings.

• Represented The Duckhorn Portfolio in its $1.95 billion sale to Butterfly Equity.
• Represented The Hershey Company in its acquisition of Sour Strips and Pirate Brands, including the Pirate’s Booty, Smart Puffs and Original Tings brands from B&G Foods, Inc.
• Represented Sodiaal in its acquisition of General Mills’ Canadian yogurt business.
• Represented VMG Partners and [solidcore] in its sale to investment firm, L Catterton.
Represented The Duckhorn Portfolio in its acquisition of Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards.
• Represented Yasso Holdings and Castanea Partners in its sale of Yasso Holdings to Unilever.
• Represented America's Test Kitchen in its sale to Marquee Brands.
• Represented TravelCenters of America Inc. in its $1.3 billion sale to BP.
• Represented Planet Fitness in its acquisition of Sunshine Fitness.
• Represented Max Finkelstein in its sale to U.S. Autoforce.
• Represented The Michaels Companies, Inc. in its $5 billion take-private sale to investment funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc.
• Represented Dunkin’ Brands in its $11.3 billion sale to Inspire Brands.
• Represented Multi Packaging Solutions Limited in its $2.28 billion sale to WestRock Company.
• Represented the adidas Group in numerous transactions, including the sales of its Mitchell & Ness and Rockport shoe businesses.

• Represented National Amusements in its ’s pending sale to affiliates of Skydance Media in concert with the merger of Skydance Media with Paramount Global.
• Represented Haveli Investments, a technology-focused private equity firm, in its acquisition of ZeroFox Holdings, Inc. 
• Represented MACOM Technology Solutions in its acquisition of Linearizer Communications Group.
• Represented Toast in its acquisition of Delphi Display Systems.
• Represented Cinven in its $720 million acquisition of TaxAct and the subsequent business combination of TaxAct and Drake Software.
• Represented HP Inc. in its acquisition of Poly Inc.
• Represented McAfee in a sale worth over $14 billion to an investor group named “Deal of the Year” by IFLR’s 2023 Americas Awards and $4 billion sale of its Enterprise business to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group.
• Represented Qorvo in its acquisition of Decawave Limited in a transaction named 2020 “Deal of the Year” by The Irish Times.
• Represented Altimeter Growth Corp. in a $40 billion stock-for-stock merger with Grab Holdings.
• Represented Atlantic Media, Inc. in the sale of Quartz to Uzabase and the sale of a majority ownership stake in The Atlantic to Emerson Collective, which was founded and is run by Laurene Powell Jobs. 
• Represented China Oceanwides USA Holdings in its acquisition of International Data Group (IDG).
• Represented Mentor Graphics Corporation in its $4.5 billion acquisition by Siemens AG.