Experience

  • Private Equity and Financial Services

    • Apollo in the acquisition of Presidio from American Securities.
    • Presidio in its $2.1 billion sale to BC Partners.
    • Siris in its $595 million acquisition of American Stock Transfer and Trust Company and simultaneous acquisition of Equiniti.
    • Intelsat in its $16.4 billion buyout by an investor group led by BC Partners.

  • Technology and Telecommunications

    • Michael Dell in the take private of Dell, Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC, Dell’s Class V stock exchange, and its spinoff of its interest in VMware.
    • Square in its initial public offering.
    • Harman International Industries in its $780 million acquisition of Symphony Teleca.
    • Leap Wireless in its $1.2 billion sale to AT&T.
    • Alibaba Group in its $7.8 billion stock repurchase from Yahoo! and restructuring of Alipay with Yahoo! and Softbank.
    • Lucent Technologies in its $13.4 billion stock-for-stock merger of equals with Alcatel.

  • Consumer Goods and Retail

    • Lions Gate Entertainment in its $4.3 billion merger with Starz.
    • Kennedy-Wilson Holdings in its $1.9 billion acquisition of Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate.
    • CST Brands in its $4.4 billion acquisition by Alimentation Couche-Tard.
    • Saks in its $2.9 billion sale to Hudson’s Bay.
    • Tim Hortons in its $12.2 billion combination with Burger King Worldwide.
    • Smurfit-Stone Container in its $3.5 billion merger with RockTenn Company.
    • Dufry in its €328 million acquisition of the interest in Folli Follie Group, and other acquisitions.

  • Energy and Resources

    • Newmont Mining in its $10 billion stock-for-stock acquisition of Goldcorp.
    • Newfield Exploration Company in its $5.5 billion sale to Encana Corporation.
    • Cabot Corporation in its $1.1 billion acquisition of Norit.
    • Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold in its $3.4 billion acquisition of McMoRan Exploration and its $6.9 billion acquisition of Plains Exploration & Production.
    • Rohm and Haas Company in its $18 billion sale to Dow Chemical Company.
    • Duke Energy in its $32 billion merger with Progress Energy.

  • Pharmaceuticals and Other

    • Pfizer in its $48 billion combination of Upjohn, its off-patent branded and generic established medicines business, with Mylan in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction.
    • Airgas in successfully defending against a $5.8 billion hostile bid by Air Products and Chemicals.

Education

  • Queen's University, 1999, B.Com
  • Harvard Law School, 2004, J.D.