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

  • 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.

  • Huntington Bancshares in several transactions, including its $22 billion all stock merger with TCF Financial.

  • FIS in the planned spin‐off and subsequent sale of its Worldpay Merchant Solutions business to GTCR, valuing Worldpay at $18.5 billion.

  • BMO Financial Group in its $16.3 billion acquisition of Bank of the West.

  • Hill‐Rom in its $12.4 billion acquisition by Baxter International.

  • The PNC Financial Services Group in several transactions, including its $11.6 billion acquisition of BBVA USA Bancshares.

  • 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.

  • Cadence Bancorporation in its $6 billion all‐stock merger of equals with BancorpSouth Bank.

  • AIG in several transactions, including its $4.5 billion sale of its Validus Re business to RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.

  • Assurance IQ in its $3.5 billion sale to Prudential Financial.

  • CardWorks in its $2.65 billion sale to Ally Financial.

  • Mechanics Bank in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Rabobank, N.A.

  • The Carlyle Group in several transactions, including in its $1.775 billion acquisition of NSM Insurance Group and its sale of BenefitMall to Truist.

  • Siris Capital Group in several transactions, including its $1.55 billion acquisition of AST and Equiniti.

  • Mr. Cooper in several transactions, including the $500 million sale of its title business to Blend Labs.

  • Hilltop Holdings in several transactions, including the $150 million sale of its subsidiary, National Lloyds Corporation, to Align Financial Holdings.

  • JPMorgan Chase & Co. in its acquisition of InstaMed.

  • Webster Financial Corporation in several transactions, including its acquisition of Ametros Financial Corp.

  • Warburg Pincus in several transactions, including its investment in LendingPoint.

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Healthcare and Life Sciences

  • Allergan in its $83 billion acquisition by AbbVie.

  • Alexion Pharmaceuticals in its $39 billion acquisition by AstraZeneca.

  • Blackstone Life Sciences and Novo Holdings A/S in the pending up to $3.1 billion sale of Anthos Therapeutics to Novartis AG.

  • Roquette Frères in the $2.85 billion acquisition of IFF Pharma Solutions.

  • GVS in its acquisition of the global whole blood business of Haemonetics Corporation.

  • Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma, Ltd in its acquisition of the product known as Korsuva or Kapruvia from Cara Therapeutics Inc.

  • Surescripts in the sale of a majority of its equity to TPG.

  • Encompass Health in its spin-off of Enhabit.

  • Mallinckrodt in several transactions, including its reorganization process, Chapter 11 bankruptcy emergence, and completion of Irish Examinership proceedings.

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Aerospace and Defense

  • Alcoa in its separation into two independent public companies, Alcoa and Arconic.

  • Arconic in its separation into two independent public companies, Arconic and Howmet Aerospace.

  • Maxar Technologies in its $6.4 billion acquisition by Advent International.

  • RTX Corporation in its sale of the Goodrich Hoist & Winch business of its Collins Aerospace Division to Signia Aerospace.

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Industrial and Consumer Products

  • Cornerstone Building Brands in its $5.8 billion all cash acquisition by affiliates of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.

  • Sealed Air in its $1.15 billion acquisition of Liquibox.

  • Westrock Coffee in its $1.086 billion business combination with Riverview Acquisition.

  • Heidelberg Materials in its acquisition of GCHI.

  • 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.

  • Goodyear in the $701 million sale of its Dunlop brand to SRI.

  • Vandemoortele in its acquisition of the pan-European spreads business from Bunge.

  • Aramark in the spin-off of Vestis Corporation.

  • Keurig Dr. Pepper in its acquisition of Ghost Lifestyle for up-front consideration of $990 million.

  • Suzano in the acquisition of packaging facilities from Pactiv Evergreen.

  • Fanatics in several transactions, including its acquisition of the sports and entertainment division of Topps.

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Media, Technology, and Telecommunications

  • Vivendi in its separation into four publicly traded companies.

  • CBS Broadcasting, Inc. in the $1.5 billion acquisition of CBS Radio Inc. by Entercom Communications Corp. via a Reverse Morris Trust transaction.

  • Searchlight Capital in several transactions, including its $3.1 billion acquisition, together with BCI, of Consolidated Communications.

  • TEGNA in its spin-off of Cars.com.

  • TEGNA in its proposed all-cash acquisition by Standard General at an enterprise value of approximately $8.6 billion.

  • Littelfuse in several transactions, including its $750 million acquisition of IXYS Corporation.

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Energy

  • Marathon Petroleum Corporation in the $21 billion acquisition of its Speedway business by 7‐Eleven.

  • EQT Corporation its spin-off of Equitrans Midstream Corporation.

  • Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority in the acquisition of generation units from New Fortress Energy Inc.

  • Osprey Energy Acquisition Corp. in its $894 million acquisition of Royal Resources.

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Real Estate and Transportation

  • Kansas City Southern in its $31 billion acquisition by Canadian Pacific Railway.

  • Lennar in its spin-off of Millrose Properties.

  • Columbia Property Trust in its $3.9 billion sale to PIMCO.

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