David has advised clients on numerous significant matters, including the following:
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EQT in its $35 billion merger with Equitrans
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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts in its successful defense of a $7.8 billion hostile takeover and full slate proxy contest by Choice Hotels International
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Vericast in the sale of its digital and print marketing businesses to R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
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Sycamore Partners in its $1 billion acquisition of Chico’s FAS, Inc.
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Daseke, Inc. in its $1.1 billion acquisition by TFI International Inc.
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Rice Acquisition Corp. II in its $1.459 billion combination with NET Power
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Archaea Energy Inc. in its $4.1 billion sale to bp p.l.c.
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EQT Corporation in its $5.2 billion acquisition of Tug Hill’s upstream assets and XcL Midstream’s gathering and processing assets
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Celanese in its $11 billion acquisition of the majority of DuPont's Mobility & Materials Business
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Nautic Partners in its $570 million acquisition of Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc.
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Stone Point Capital in its acquisition of ECN Kessler Holdco
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Special Committee of Board of Directors of Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company in its management internalization transaction
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Stone Point Capital in its $2 billion acquisition of Tivity Health
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Vervent in its acquisition of First Equity Card Corporation
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Novo Holdings in its acquisition of Medical Knowledge Group from Court Square Capital and Aisling Capital
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Polestar Performance AB in its $20 billion combination with Gores Guggenheim Inc.
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Home Point Capital in its $324 million sale to Mr. Cooper Group
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Nordic Capital-led consortium in its $7.3 billion acquisition of Inovalon
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Humana Inc. in its acquisition of EliteHealth Medical Practice and certain related businesses
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EQT Infrastructure in its $5.3 billion acquisition of Covanta Holding Corporation
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Bullish in its proposed $9 billion business combination with Far Peak Acquisition Corporation
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Celanese Corporation in its $1.15 billion acquisition of ExxonMobil’s Santoprene TPV elastomers business
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Direct Selling Acquisition Corp. in its $223 million business combination with Hunch Mobility
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Rice Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its $1.15 billion business combination with Aria Energy LLC and Archaea Energy LLC to form Archaea Energy, a publicly-traded renewable natural gas platform
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Stone Point Capital in its $6 billion acquisition of CoreLogic
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Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. in its £1.08 billion sale of The Priory Group to Waterland Private Equity
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Accenture in its acquisition of N3
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Radiology Partners in its $885 million acquisition of MEDNAX Radiology Solutions
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Accenture in the initial public offering of Duck Creek Technologies, Inc.
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Corning Inc. in Hemlock Semiconductor’s acquisition of the trichlorosilane business of DuPont, and concurrent acquisition by Corning of the remaining interest, which it did not already own, in Hemlock
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Accenture in its acquisition of CreativeDrive
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MultiPlan Inc. and its largest shareholder, Hellman & Friedman, in MultiPlan’s $11 billion combination with Churchill Capital Corp III
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Covetrus in its $250 million PIPE investment from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
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HGGC in its $115 million strategic equity investment in Upland Software
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Infineon Technologies AG in its $10.1 billion acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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Cambrex Corporation in its $2.4 billion agreement to be acquired by Permira
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Colfax Corporation in its $1.8 billion sale of its Air and Gas Handling business to KPS Capital Partners
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Wyndham Worldwide in its approximately $1.3 billion sale of its European vacation rental business to Platinum Equity
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Wyndham Worldwide in its $1.95 billion acquisition of La Quinta Inns & Suites’ franchise and management businesses
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Wyndham Worldwide in its separation via spin-off into two separate publicly traded hospitality companies valued at approximately $11 billion, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. and Wyndham Destinations, Inc.
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Marriott Vacations Worldwide in its $4.7 billion acquisition of Interval Leisure Group, Inc. (ILG)
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Varde Partners in its $1.4 billion acquisition of OneMain Financial
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Rice Energy in the successful defense against opposition by JANA Partners to the $6.7 billion acquisition by EQT Corporation
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Abbott Laboratories in its $5.3 billion acquisition of Alere
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Celanese Corporation in its proposed joint venture with Blackstone to create a global acetate tow supplier
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New Mountain Capital in its $596 million acquisition of TRC Companies, Inc.
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Fox Corporation in its $397 million acquisition of Credible Labs
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Micro Focus International plc in its $8.8 billion “Reverse Morris Trust” acquisition of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company’s software business
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Celator Pharmaceuticals in its $1.5 billion sale to Jazz Pharmaceuticals
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Accenture in its joint venture with Apax Partners from the carve out of Accenture’s Duck Creek Technologies insurance claims, billing and policy administration software business
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Nexstar Broadcasting Group in connection with its $4.6 billion acquisition of Media General, ending a six-month public takeover battle during which Nexstar jumped Media General’s previously announced transaction with Meredith Corp.
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Accenture in its $830 million carve-out sale of Navitaire to Amadeus IT Holding SA
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IGATE Corporation in its $4 billion sale to Cap Gemini
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Burger King Worldwide Inc. in its $13.3 billion merger transaction with Tim Hortons Inc.
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Infineon Technologies AG in its $3 billion acquisition of International Rectifier Corporation
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Lazard as financial advisor to Reynolds American in its $27.4 billion acquisition of Lorillard
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Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $725 million (including milestone payments) acquisition of iPierian, a privately-held biotech company
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Beechcraft in its $1.4 billion sale of the company to Textron Inc.
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rue21, inc. in the $1.1 billion sale of the company to Apax Partners
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3G Capital Partners Ltd. in its $28.0 billion acquisition, along with Berkshire Hathaway Inc., of H. J. Heinz Company
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Clearwire Corporation in Sprint’s acquisition of the stake in Clearwire which Sprint did not already own, implying a $14 billion enterprise value for Sprint and the unsolicited competing offer for Clearwire by DISH Networks
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Danaher Corporation in its $338 million acquisition of IRIS International, Inc.
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GeoEye in its merger with DigitalGlobe
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Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $7 billion acquisition of Amylin Pharmaceuticals and joint collaboration with AstraZeneca plc
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Burger King Worldwide Holdings, Inc. and its controlling stockholder, 3G Capital Partners Ltd., in connection with a business combination with Justice Holdings Ltd., a London Stock Exchange-listed public investment vehicle, resulting in a partial sale of Burger King to the Justice shareholders for $1.4 billion and a New York Stock Exchange listing of Burger King
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Inhibitex, Inc.
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Colgate-Palmolive Company in its €672 million acquisition of Sanex Brands from Unilever and related $210 million disposition of Colgate’s Colombian detergents business
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Mirant Corporation in its $3.1 billion merger of equals with RRI Energy, Inc.
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PVH in its $3 billion acquisition of Tommy Hilfiger
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MetLife in the recapitalization and split-off of its less than wholly owned subsidiary, RGA
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Apollo in its $16 billion buyout of Harrah’s with TPG
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Iscar in its $4 billion acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway
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ConocoPhillips in its multi-billion dollar oil sands joint venture with EnCana
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ConocoPhillips in its $35 billion acquisition of Burlington Resources
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EQT in its exchange agreement with Equinor USA Onshore Properties
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Altaris in its pending $540 million acquisition of Sharecare
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Altaris in its $316 million acquisition of Trean Insurance Group