Swift Edgar
Partner
Swift Edgar’s practice focuses on U.S. federal income tax matters.
He has experience advising on a variety of tax aspects of corporate and partnership transactions, including taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, financings, equity issuances, joint ventures and spin-offs, and private equity matters.
Swift joined the firm as counsel in 2024 from another international law firm and became a partner in 2025.
Notable Experience (including those prior to joining Cleary)
Banking and Finance
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Global Payments in several transactions, including its $45 billion merger of equals with Total Systems Services, its $4 billion acquisition of EVO Payments, and the $1 billion sale of its Netspend consumer business to Rêv Worldwide and Searchlight.
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Huntington Bancshares in several transactions, including its $22 billion all stock merger with TCF Financial.
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FIS in the planned spin‐off and subsequent sale of its Worldpay Merchant Solutions business to GTCR, valuing Worldpay at $18.5 billion.
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BMO Financial Group in its $16.3 billion acquisition of Bank of the West.
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Hill‐Rom in its $12.4 billion acquisition by Baxter International.
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The PNC Financial Services Group in several transactions, including its $11.6 billion acquisition of BBVA USA Bancshares.
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BGC Partners in several transactions, including the IPO and subsequent spin-off of Newmark Group, Inc. and the conversion of the BGC entities from an Umbrella Partnership/C-Corporation to a Full C-Corporation.
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Cadence Bancorporation in its $6 billion all‐stock merger of equals with BancorpSouth Bank.
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AIG in several transactions, including its $4.5 billion sale of its Validus Re business to RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
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Assurance IQ in its $3.5 billion sale to Prudential Financial.
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CardWorks in its $2.65 billion sale to Ally Financial.
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Mechanics Bank in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Rabobank, N.A.
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The Carlyle Group in several transactions, including in its $1.775 billion acquisition of NSM Insurance Group and its sale of BenefitMall to Truist.
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Siris Capital Group in several transactions, including its $1.55 billion acquisition of AST and Equiniti.
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Mr. Cooper in several transactions, including the $500 million sale of its title business to Blend Labs.
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Hilltop Holdings in several transactions, including the $150 million sale of its subsidiary, National Lloyds Corporation, to Align Financial Holdings.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. in its acquisition of InstaMed.
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Webster Financial Corporation in several transactions, including its acquisition of Ametros Financial Corp.
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Warburg Pincus in several transactions, including its investment in LendingPoint.
Healthcare and Life Sciences
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Allergan in its $83 billion acquisition by AbbVie.
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Alexion Pharmaceuticals in its $39 billion acquisition by AstraZeneca.
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Blackstone Life Sciences and Novo Holdings A/S in the pending up to $3.1 billion sale of Anthos Therapeutics to Novartis AG.
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Roquette Frères in the $2.85 billion acquisition of IFF Pharma Solutions.
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GVS in its acquisition of the global whole blood business of Haemonetics Corporation.
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Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma, Ltd in its acquisition of the product known as Korsuva or Kapruvia from Cara Therapeutics Inc.
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Surescripts in the sale of a majority of its equity to TPG.
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Encompass Health in its spin-off of Enhabit.
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Mallinckrodt in several transactions, including its reorganization process, Chapter 11 bankruptcy emergence, and completion of Irish Examinership proceedings.
Aerospace and Defense
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Alcoa in its separation into two independent public companies, Alcoa and Arconic.
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Arconic in its separation into two independent public companies, Arconic and Howmet Aerospace.
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Maxar Technologies in its $6.4 billion acquisition by Advent International.
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RTX Corporation in its sale of the Goodrich Hoist & Winch business of its Collins Aerospace Division to Signia Aerospace.
Industrial and Consumer Products
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Cornerstone Building Brands in its $5.8 billion all cash acquisition by affiliates of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
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Sealed Air in its $1.15 billion acquisition of Liquibox.
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Westrock Coffee in its $1.086 billion business combination with Riverview Acquisition.
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Heidelberg Materials in its acquisition of GCHI.
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Henkel in several transactions, including its acquisition of adhesives and restoration brands from American Industrial Partners, and its sale of certain North American private label laundry and home care assets.
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Goodyear in the $701 million sale of its Dunlop brand to SRI.
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Vandemoortele in its acquisition of the pan-European spreads business from Bunge.
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Aramark in the spin-off of Vestis Corporation.
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Keurig Dr. Pepper in its acquisition of Ghost Lifestyle for up-front consideration of $990 million.
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Suzano in the acquisition of packaging facilities from Pactiv Evergreen.
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Fanatics in several transactions, including its acquisition of the sports and entertainment division of Topps.
Media, Technology, and Telecommunications
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Vivendi in its separation into four publicly traded companies.
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CBS Broadcasting, Inc. in the $1.5 billion acquisition of CBS Radio Inc. by Entercom Communications Corp. via a Reverse Morris Trust transaction.
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Searchlight Capital in several transactions, including its $3.1 billion acquisition, together with BCI, of Consolidated Communications.
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TEGNA in its spin-off of Cars.com.
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TEGNA in its proposed all-cash acquisition by Standard General at an enterprise value of approximately $8.6 billion.
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Littelfuse in several transactions, including its $750 million acquisition of IXYS Corporation.
Energy
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Marathon Petroleum Corporation in the $21 billion acquisition of its Speedway business by 7‐Eleven.
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EQT Corporation its spin-off of Equitrans Midstream Corporation.
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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority in the acquisition of generation units from New Fortress Energy Inc.
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Osprey Energy Acquisition Corp. in its $894 million acquisition of Royal Resources.
Real Estate and Transportation
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Kansas City Southern in its $31 billion acquisition by Canadian Pacific Railway.
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Lennar in its spin-off of Millrose Properties.
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Columbia Property Trust in its $3.9 billion sale to PIMCO.