Experience

• Merger Review

  • Advising Baker Hughes in the global merger review of its $13.6 billion acquisition of Chart Industries.
  • Advising Keysight Technologies in the global merger review and with respect to remedies of its $1.5 billion acquisition of Spirent Communications.
  • Advising Nabors Industries in the global merger review of its acquisition of Parker Wellbore and the subsequent sale of Quail Tools to Superior Energy.
  • Advising Baker Hughes in the UK CMA review of its acquisition of Altus Intervention (Phase I clearance with remedies). 
  • Assisting Uber Technologies with the merger review of Uber’s acquisition of a majority stake in Cornershop, the grocery delivery platform.
  • Advising Danaher Corporation in connection with the global merger review of the $20 billion acquisition of GE Healthcare’s Biopharma business.
  • Assisting MKS Instruments in the global merger review for its $1B acquisition of Electro Scientific Industries and previously for its $980 million acquisition of Newport Corporation.
  • Guiding three major Japanese container shipping carriers in the US and EU antitrust reviews of their 1,440,000 TEU joint venture, Ocean Network Express.
  • Advising Baker Hughes in connection with the global merger review of the $32 billion combination with GE Oil & Gas, and previously with regard to Halliburton's proposed $34.6 billion acquisition of Baker Hughes.
  • Advising International Paper Company in obtaining clearance in the United States and other jurisdictions for its $2.2 billion acquisition of the pulp assets of Weyerhauser and previously for its $4.4B acquisition of Temple-Inland, Inc., and for the $710 million sale of its Temple-Inland Building Products division to Georgia-Pacific.
  • Assisting Demandware in securing antitrust clearance for its $2.8 billion sale to Salesforce.com.
  • Assisting leading academic publisher Springer Science Business Media (SSBM) in securing merger control clearance in the United States, the European Commission and several other jurisdictions for the combination of SSBM with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan Science and Education (namely Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and the global businesses of Macmillan Education) in a joint venture with approximately EUR 1.5 billion in annual revenues.
  • Assisting Analog Devices in securing antitrust clearance for its $2.5 billion acquisition of Hittite Microwave.