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Sherry Xie

Partner, Tax Department

Overview

Sherry Xie is a partner in the Tax practice and is based in the firm’s New York office. Sherry advises U.S. and international clients, both public and private, on a broad range of tax matters, including the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and other complex business transactions. She routinely represents leading public corporations and private equity firms and their portfolio companies across multiple industries, including consumer products, technology, healthcare, manufacturing and financial services.

Education

  • Harvard Law School, J.D., 2014
  • Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, M.S., Finance, 2011
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., Economics, 2007

Representations

  • Kinderhook Industries, LLC in multiple transactions, including the acquisition of Steward Medical Group and Steward Healthcare Network by its portfolio company, Rural Healthcare Group; the sale of Dealer Products Holding, Inc. to RealTruck Group, Inc.; and financing transactions for its portfolio company, Better Health Group.
  • Cyxtera Technologies Inc. through its reorganization.
  • Focus Impact (NASDAQ: FIAC) on its business combination with carbon streaming company DevvStream Holdings Inc.
  • Monomoy Capital Partners on its sale of Shaw Development to Madison Dearborn Partners.
  • TJC (formerly The Jordan Company) in multiple transactions, including its acquisition of an 80.1% stake of resins unit Delrin from chemical company DuPont in a transaction that valued the business at $1.8 billion.
  • Hellman & Friedman in its acquisition of Cardinal Health's Cordis business for approximately $1 billion.
  • Special Committee of the Board of Directors of MSC Industrial Direct Co. (NYSE: MSM), a leading North American distributor of a broad range of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services.
  • Polestar Performance AB, the global electric performance car company, and its affiliates on Polestar’s $20 billion business combination with Gores Guggenheim Inc.
  • Adtran (NASDAQ: ADTN) on its cross-border business combination with ADVA (FSE: ADV) to create a leading global, scaled provider of end-to-end fiber networking solutions for communications service provider, enterprise and government customers.
  • Gen Digital (formerly NortonLifeLock) (NASDAQ: GEN), a global leader in consumer cyber safety, on its $25 billion merger with Avast (LSE: AVST), a global leader in digital security and privacy.
  • Fortive Corporation in its 80.1% spin-off of Vontier Corporation and subsequent disposition of its remaining stake.
  • OceanFirst Financial Corp. on various bank mergers.

Matters may have been completed before joining Paul Hastings.

Practice Areas

Tax


Languages

Englisch


Admissions

New York Bar


Education

Harvard Law School, J.D. 2014