James E. Langston

Thales in its $3.6 billion acquisition of Imperva.

Saint-Gobain in its C$1.325 billion acquisition of Building Products of Canada and its $928 million acquisition of Kaycan and its $1.4 billion acquisition of Continental Building Products.

T-Mobile in its pending up to $1.35 billion acquisition of Ka’ena and its subsidiaries and brands, Mint Mobile, Ultra Mobile, and Plum.

OpenText in its $6 billion acquisition of Micro Focus.

General Mills in its $610 million sale of its Helper and Suddenly Salad businesses to Eagle Family Foods, its $8 billion acquisition of Blue Buffalo Pet Products, and its sale of Yoplait’s European operations to Sodiaal.

Sony in its $1 billion, $200 million, and $250 million minority investments in Epic Games.

Sony Interactive Entertainment in its acquisition of Bungie.

Brookfield in its $5.8 billion acquisition of Scientific Games’ lottery business.

Sysco in its acquisition of Greco and Sons and its acquisition of The Coastal Companies.

dMY III in its merger with IonQ to become the first publicly traded pure-play quantum computing company.

ArcelorMittal in its $3.3 billion sale of ArcelorMittal USA to Cleveland-Cliffs.

Bemis Company in its $6.8 billion all-stock merger with Amcor.

Songa Offshore in its $3.8 billion combination with Transocean.

Allergan in its:

• $160 billion announced merger with Pfizer
• $40.5 billion sale of its global generics pharmaceuticals business to Teva
• $2.1 billion acquisition of Kythera Biopharmaceuticals

Suntory Holdings in its $16 billion acquisition of Beam.

Medtronic in its $49.9 billion acquisition of Covidien.

Biomet and its private equity consortium owners—Blackstone, Goldman Sachs PIA, KKR, and TPG—in Biomet’s $13.35 billion cash and stock merger with Zimmer Holdings.

Surgical Care Affiliates in its $2.5 billion sale to United Health Group.

Lafarge in various divestitures in connection with its €40 billion merger of equals with Holcim.

Acadia Healthcare Company in its $1.2 billion acquisition of CRC Health Group.

Conversus Capital in its $1.4 billion sale to an affiliate of HarbourVest Partners.

Westlake Chemical Corporation in its acquisition of NAKAN.

Duravant in its tender offer to acquire Key Technology.

The shareholders of Levi Strauss & Co., consisting primarily of the descendants of the family of Levi Strauss and their relatives, in connection with the company’s IPO, including the adoption of a dual-class capital structure and new governance structures.

Allied Universal in its recommended offer to acquire G4S plc for approximately $5 billion.

Akamai Technologies in its negotiated settlement with Elliott Management.

Hyundai Motor Company in the proxy contest by Elliott Management.

IMAX in Marcato Capital Management’s accumulation of a 5.1% stake in the company.

Sony Corp. in its:

• defense against an activism campaign by Third Point.
• $3.7 billion tender offer to acquire the outstanding shares of Sony Financial Services not already owned by Sony Corp.

MEDNAX in its defense against an activism campaign led by Starboard.

Assured Guaranty in governance and activism preparedness advice in response to a short-sale activism by David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital.

Nokian Tyre in activism preparedness advice in response to activism by Elliott Management.

Tempur Sealy in adoption of limited duration shareholder rights plan during COVID-19 pandemic.

Actavis in its $70 billion white knight acquisition of Allergan.

Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Spectrum Brands in the $10 billion combination of Spectrum Brands and HRG Group (the 58% stockholder of Spectrum).

Westlake Chemical Corporation in its unsolicited proposal to acquire Axiall Corporation and related proxy contest and the resulting $3.8 billion negotiated acquisition.

GlaxoSmithKline in its unsolicited tender offer to acquire Human Genome Sciences and the resulting $3.6 billion negotiated acquisition.

Genting and Kien Huat in their acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Empire Resorts not already owned by Kien Huat.

Danfoss A/S in its tender offer to acquire the outstanding shares of Sauer-Danfoss not already owned by Danfoss.

TPG Capital in numerous transactions, including its:

• $2.25 billion acquisition of RCN Telecommunications and Grande Communications
• investment in Creative Artists Agency
• recapitalization of RentPath, including the sale of a significant equity stake to Providence Equity Partners
• $1.7 billion acquisition of Savers
• $525 million take-private acquisition of PRIMEDIA

Warburg Pincus in numerous matters, including its acquisitions of:

• Pregis
• Universal Services of America and Guardsmark
• Wencor Group
• Gabriel Brothers
• Duravant

Bausch + Lomb and Warburg Pincus in the $8.7 billion sale of Bausch + Lomb to Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

Neiman Marcus, TPG Capital, and Warburg Pincus in the $6 billion sale of Neiman Marcus to Ares Management and CPPIB.

RCN Communications in its $2.3 billion acquisition of Wave Broadband.

GT Nexus in its $675 million acquisition by Infor.

Biomet in its acquisition of the global trauma business of DePuy Orthopaedics.

Universal Services of America in numerous matters, including its:

• merger of equals transaction with Allied Barton
• $131 million acquisition of the security business of ABM Industries

Allied Universal in several matters, including its:

• sale of a significant equity stake to CDPQ and investment funds affiliated with Warburg Pincus at a valuation of more than $7 billion
• $1 billion acquisition of U.S. Security Associates

Pregis in its acquisition of SOPRAD.

Duravant in its acquisition of WECO.

Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Lazard, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Evercore, and PJ Solomon as financial advisor in numerous transactions.