Experience

• Mergers and Acquisitions

  Numerous mergers and acquisitions, representing both buyers and sellers, in transactions sized up to more than $7 billion. Representative transactions include representing:  

  • Fortive Corporation in its $1.2B acquisition of ServiceChannel;
  • Lion Semiconductor in its $335M acquisition by Cirrus Logic;
  • Tidal Therapeutics in its acquisition by Sanofi;
  • Eaton Vance Corp. in its pending acquisition by Morgan Stanley for $7 billion;
  • SoFi in connection with its acquisition of Galileo Financial Technologies;
  • The Special Committee of Hilton Worldwide Holdings in an acquisition of approximately 25% equity interest in Hilton by HNA Group from affiliates of Blackstone for $6.5 billion;
  • Soraa Laser Diode, Inc., in its acquisition by KYOCERA Corporation;
  • Nyansa in its acquisition by VMware; 
  • MKS Instruments in connection with its acquisition of Electro Scientific Industries;
  • Lattice Engines, Inc. in connect with its acquisition by Dun & Bradstreet; 
  • Alairion, Inc. in its acquisition by RBNC Therapeutics, Inc.;
  • Lydall in connection with its acquisition of Interface Performance Materials;
  • Micro Focus in connection with its acquisition of Serena Software;
  • Navient in its $155M acquisition of Earnest; 
  • RedHat in its acquisition of CoreOS, Inc.;
  • Sonus Networks in connection with its business combination with GENBAND;
  • Cumberland Farms, Inc. in its acquisition by EG Group;
  • Cumberland Farms, Inc. in the sale of its Gulf Oil and Assured Deal business to affiliates of ArcLight Capital Partners;
  • AVIC International Holding (Zhuhai) Company in its $230 million acquisition of California-based Align Aerospace Holding, as well as in its CFIUS and antitrust filings and in obtaining Chinese regulatory approval for the acquisition; and
  • Other sell-side transactions to large acquirers such as IBM, salesforce and Citrix.