Richard William Kidd

Corporate Transactions 

• 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.
• Blackstone in its acquisition of SESAC Holdings, a leading music rights organization, from Rizvi Traverse Management
• Blackstone Energy Partners and Sanchez Energy Corporation in the definitive purchase agreement to acquire Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s working interest in approximately 318,000 gross operated acres in the Western Eagle Ford for approximately $2.3 billion
• RimRock Oil & Gas and its sponsor, Warburg Pincus, in its $500 million acquisition of upstream assets in the Bakken Shale in North Dakota from Whiting Petroleum Corporation
• Multinational financial services company with respect to labor and employment issues in the sale of its banking subsidiary with operations in more than 40 countries 

Wind Downs and Separations

• Fund manager separation from current employer to form own fund.
• Global investment management firm in separation with portfolio company CEO and COO
• Media company in the out-of-court-wind down of its U.S. operations

Investigations

• National insurance company with #MeToo investigation 
• National advertising company with #MeToo investigation
• Global company with executive expense fraud investigation

Restructurings

• An official committee of unsecured creditors in the restructuring of a major U.S. airline
• An American fashion company in its Chapter 11 reorganization

Union Negotiations

• Steel company in the negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement with the United Autoworkers
• Coal company in the negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement with the United Steelworkers

Litigations

• Global diversified services company in federal employment discrimination action
• Mutual life insurance company in a federal employment class action