• Represented Thoughtworks in its $1.75 billion take-private by Apax Funds.
• Represented Nokia in the sale of its Device Management (DM) and Service Management Platform (SMP) businesses to Lumnine Group.
• Represented AT&T Services, Inc., in the $1.4 billion sale of Warner Bros. Games’ Playdemic, Ltd., the mobile games studio responsible for Golf Clash, to Electronic Arts.
• Represented Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. I in its—$2.2 billion acquisition of SmartRent. Inc.
• Represented PAR Technology, a leading global provider of restaurant software, in its $500 million acquisition of Punchh Inc.
• Represented Amherst Residential in its proposed $2.3 billion acquisition of Front Yard Residential Corporation, a publicly-traded REIT.
• Represented Barnes & Noble Education in its successful defense against an unsolicited takeover bid launched by Bay Capital Finance.
• Represented GulfMark Offshore in its $1.2 billion business combination with Tidewater.
• Represented Hewlett Packard Enterprise in connection with its spin-off and merger of its Enterprise Services Business with CSC by means of a Reverse Morris Trust transaction.
• Represented MiraMed Global Services in its acquisition of Medac, Inc., a leading provider of anesthesia revenue cycle management.
• Represented California Water Service Group in its $2 billion unsolicited interloper bid for SJW Group.
• Represented Marriott International in its $12 billion acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.
• Represented DepoMed, Inc., in connection with its successful defense against a $3.3 billion unsolicited takeover offer from Horizon Pharma, including related proxy contest and litigation.
• Represented MGM Growth Properties in its $5.5 billion bid for Vici Properties.
• Represented Towers Watson in connection with its $18 billion merger of equals with Willis Group.
• Represented Hewlett-Packard Company in its approximately $3.0 billion acquisition of Aruba Networks, Inc.
• Represented The Related Companies in its investment in CommonWealth REIT, including successful consent solicitation to remove and replace the entire Board of Trustees of CommonWealth, and related litigation.
• Represented Transatlantic Holdings, a reinsurance company, in its $3.4 billion merger with Alleghany Corporation, and successful defense against a hostile exchange offer commenced by Validus Holdings.
• Represented Zayo Group, in its $2.2 billion acquisition of AboveNet, Inc.
• Represented the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Fushi Copperweld, a China-based US publicly traded company, in connection with its completed going-private transaction.
• Represented Baldor Electric Company in its $4.2 billion sale to ABB Ltd via a tender offer.
• Represented The Williams Companies, Inc., in its $5.9 billion acquisition of the 50% general partner interest in Access Midstream Partners from Global Infrastructure Partners.
• Represented CommScope Inc. in its sale to The Carlyle Group for $3.9 billion.
• Represented Heineken in its $7.6 billion acquisition of the beer operations of FEMSA.
• Represented Emulex Corporation in its successful defense against an attempted hostile takeover by Broadcom Corporation.
• Represented SES Global in its $760 million acquisition of New Skies Satellites Holdings Ltd.
• Represented SES Global in its tax-free disposition to GE of various satellite businesses for $1.3 billion.
• Represented SunTrust Banks Inc. in its $14.7 billion unsolicited bid for Wachovia Corporation.

Matters may have been completed before joining Paul Hastings.

• Member, The American Law Institute
• Member, Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School
• Member, Advisory Board of Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets
• Member, the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals
• Fellow, the American College of Governance Counsel