Financial services:

• Warburg Pincus in various transactions, including its minority investment in Edelman Financial Engines and add-on acquisition of Regency Finance Company by Mariner Finance, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company.
• Capital One in various transactions, including the sale of its $900 million wealth management business to SageView and the sale of its high net worth investment management and trust business to Hancock Whitney.
• Flexpoint Ford in various transactions, including its strategic investment in Public Trust Advisors and its acquisition of Lereta and associated co-investment with Vestar Capital.
• Wells Fargo & Company in the $227 million sale of its Shareowner Services to Equiniti Group.
• Sears Holdings Corporation in the extension and amendment of its credit card program with Citibank in exchange for a $425 million payment from Citibank.
• Sandler O’Neill in its $485 million merger with Piper Jaffray to create Piper Sandler Companies.
• Sun Bancorp in its $487 million acquisition by OceanFirst Financial.
• IEQ Capital in its minority growth investment from Stone Point.

Tech / media / entertainment:

• II-VI in its $7.0 billion acquisition of Coherent after the public announcement of a merger agreement between Coherent and Lumentum, followed by a three-way bidding war including Lumentum and MKS Instruments.
• Acima Holdings in its $1.7 billion acquisition by Rent-A-Center.
• IAC/InterActiveCorp in the separation of Match Group from its remaining businesses.
• XO Group in its $933 million merger with WeddingWire.
• Didi Chuxing in its acquisition of 99 Taxis.
• ANGI Homeservices in its $500 million senior notes offering and related restructuring transactions.
• Flutter Entertainment in its $4.2 billion acquisition of Fastball Holdings’ minority stake in FanDuel.
• Freedom Acquisition I. Corp. in its business combination transaction with Complete Solaria.
• SoFi Technologies in its $1.1 billion convertible senior notes offering and related capped call transaction.
• Little Room Films in its sale to The North Road Company.

Healthcare:

• Immunomedics in its $21 billion acquisition by Gilead.
• Envision Healthcare in its $9.9 billion sale to KKR.
• Mallinckrodt in various transactions, including its $5.3 billion debt restructuring and resolution of opioid-related claims and Acthar Gel litigation through a voluntary Chapter 11 process, its exchange offers and consent solicitations with various noteholders, and its proposed spin-off of its specialty generics business.
• Digital Transformation Opportunities Corp. in its business combination transaction with AON Oncology.

Telecom / infrastructure:

• CenturyLink in its $34 billion acquisition of Level 3 Communications, including its divestitures of certain assets in connection with the acquisition of Level 3 Communications.
• WOW! in various divestiture transactions, including the $1.125 billion sale of its Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio service areas to Atlantic Broadband and the $661 million sale of its Chicago, Illinois, Evansville, Indiana and Anne Arundel, Maryland service areas to Astound Broadband.
• Kansas City Southern in its initially announced $29 billion sale to Canadian Pacific Railway, followed by Kansas City Southern’s subsequent response to competing acquisition proposals from Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway, culminating in a revised agreement with Canadian Pacific Railway to acquire Kansas City Southern for $31 billion.
• CoreSite in its $10.1 billion acquisition by American Tower

Other:

• ServiceMaster Global Holdings in its $1.553 billion sale of its ServiceMaster Brands businesses to Roark Capital.
• Terminix in its $6.7 billion acquisition by Rentokil.
• Sisecam Resources LP in its take-private acquisition by Sisecam Chemicals Wyoming.
• Ventas in the restructuring of its master lease with Brookdale Senior Living.
• Rockwell Automation in its successful defense and response to a $29 billion unsolicited takeover bid by Emerson Electric.

• “Reflections on Brandeis, Berle and the Politics of Big Business in 21st Century America,” SSRN: Social Science Research Network (May 12, 2022)
• “The New Power Brokers: Index Funds and the Public Interest”, American Affairs (Winter 2020)
• “How Securities Law Can Help the U.S. Counter INSTEX,” Lawfare (March 11, 2019)
• “Partially Unwinding Sanctions: The Problematic Construct of Sanctions Relief in the JCPOA,” Harvard National Security Journal (July 15, 2016)
• “Doing Sanctions Right Against North Korea,” The Diplomat (July 14, 2016)
• “The Holes in the Iran Deal,” Foreign Affairs (July 14, 2016)