David Fox
Professional Profile
One of the leading members of Kirkland's Corporate Group, David Fox focuses his practice on complex mergers and acquisitions. He also counsels senior management in connection with crisis situations, as well as on general governance matters.
Mr. Fox's transactional work has been recognized by numerous legal and financial publications, among them: Chambers and Partners' Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business; IFLR's Guide to the World's Leading Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers; The International Who's Who of Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers; The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers; Super Lawyers®; and The American Lawyer's "45 Under 45."
In addition, as a contributing author of the Kirkland M&A Update, Mr. Fox's thought leadership has been recognized by various academic and business publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, The New York Times' Deal Professor, Investment Dealers' Digest, DEALLawyers.com and Deal Lawyers, Practical Law Company (PLC) and LAW360.
Representative Matters
Mr. Fox has been involved in some of the most notable sale transactions of the last decade. He represented Realogy Corporation, a real estate brokerage company, in its approximately $9 billion going-private acquisition by private equity firm Apollo Management, L.P.; the board of directors of Toys "R" Us, Inc. in its $6.6 billion acquisition by an investment group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Bain Capital Partners LLC and Vornado Realty Trust; Cendant Corporation in its separation into three independent, publicly owned companies and the $4.3 billion sale of its Travelport unit to an affiliate of the Blackstone Group LP; Landmark Communications, Inc. in its sale of the Weather Channel to the Blackstone Group LP, NBC and Bain Capital Partners LLC; and Aztar Corp. in the four-way bidding war in which Aztar agreed to be acquired by Columbia Sussex Corp. for $2.75 billion.
Mr. Fox's practice involves many international transactions. He led the team that advised BHP Billiton Limited with the U.S. law aspects of its now withdrawn $150 billion offer to acquire Rio Tinto. He also represented Koor Industries Ltd. (Israel) in connection with a $1.5 billion financing to acquire minority interests in a number of major international financial institutions, and Gazit-Globe, Limited (Israel) and CPI Capital Partners Europe L.P. (United Kingdom) in the €800 million joint acquisition of a stake in Meinl European Land Limited.
