Public Company M&A

• IHS Markit on its $44 billion merger with S&P Global
• Williams on its $10.5 billion acquisition of Williams Partners L.P.
• Syngenta in its $43 billion acquisition by ChemChina in the largest transaction by a Chinese company outside China
• Exxon in its acquisitions of Mobil and XTO Energy
• Lenders to Elon Musk on the $25.5 billion Twitter acquisition financing
• Dean Foods on its sale out of bankruptcy
• Bread Financial on the spinoff of Loyalty Ventures
• Markit on its $13 billion merger of equals with IHS
• CVS in its contested acquisitions of Caremark and Longs Drugs
• J.P. Morgan in its merger with Chase Manhattan Bank

Defense, Activist, Crisis and Governance Roles

• ExxonMobil in its defense against a 2021 activist campaign
• IFF in its defense against activist campaigns by Icahn Capital and Sachem Head
• GeoPark in its defense against an activist campaign by Gerald O’Shaughnessy
• Amdocs in its defense against a short-selling campaign by Spruce Capital
• Syngenta in its successful defense against an unsolicited bid by Monsanto
• Governance clients include ExxonMobil, Williams Companies, Bread Financial
• Citigroup in a series of financial crisis era transactions, including its $306 billion loss protection guarantee program with the U.S. government and $52 billion capital realignment and its exit from its TARP U.S. government financial assistance
• The U.S. national residential mortgage registration system (MERS) in its restructuring under consent decree imposed by the U.S. financial regulators

Private M&A

• State Street in its $3.5 billion agreement to acquire Brown Brothers Harriman Investor Services
• First Eagle Investments acquisition of Napier Park Global Capital
• Sallie Mae on its acquisition of Nitro College from Epic Research
• BlueVoyant in its formation and equity financings
• Delta Airlines in a carve-out of its SkyMiles business in connection with a financing by the SkyMiles business
• Spirit Air in a carve-out of its loyalty business in connection with a financing transaction
• Williams Companies in its buyout of Caiman Energy II and its $1.125 billion combined sale of assets and equity comprising Williams Partners L.P.’s Four Corners Area business to Harvest Midstream Company
• Ocado PLC in its acquisition of US robotics companies Kindred, Haddington and 6 River Systems
• Orogen in its investments in Virtusa, EXL, Fair Square Financial and Westcor Title Insurance