Craig Minerva

Prior to joining Kirkland, Craig was involved in the following representative matters:

Private Practice

• Qualtrics in its $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta.
• Worldpay (GTCR) in its $24.5 billion acquisition by Global Payments.
• Park Place Technologies (GTCR and Charlesbank) in its acquisition by Service Express (Warburg Pincus).
• Tecomet (Charlesbank) in its merger with Orchid Orthopedic Solutions (Nordic).
• First Advantage in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Sterling Check Corp.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific in numerous matters, including its $9 billion acquisition of Clario Holdings, Inc., its approximately $4 billion acquisition of Solventum’s Purification & Filtration business, its $3.1 billion acquisition of Olink, its $12.5 billion tender offer for QIAGEN N.V. and its approximately $1.85 billion acquisition of PeproTech Inc.
• VMware Inc. in its $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom Inc.
• Berkshire Partners in its parallel acquisitions of Forcura and Medalogix.
• WestJet Airlines Ltd. in connection with equity investments by Delta Air Lines and Korean Air.
• Elite Roofing Supply in its acquisition by Gulfeagle Supply.
• Sectigo, Inc. in its acquisition of Entrust’s public certificate business.
• A pharmaceutical company in a confidential Federal Trade Commission investigation.
• Dundee Partners in its strategic partnership with Universal Music Group to acquire KKR’s majority interest in Chord Music Partners, valued at $1.85 billion.
• Easton Diamond Sports in its acquisition by Rawlings Sporting Goods.
• D.G. Yuengling & Son in its joint venture with Molson Coors Beverage Company to expand west.
• Novartis in the sale of its animal health division to Eli Lilly.
• United Airlines in its proposed acquisition of take-off and landing slots from Delta at Newark Liberty International Airport.
• Boehringer Ingelheim before the European Commission in its acquisition of Sanofi’s animal health division.
• A leading U.S. technology company before the DOJ’s Antitrust Division regarding standard essential patent issues.

Government

• Led the initial investigation of Visa’s attempted acquisition of Plaid, which the parties abandoned post-complaint.
• Led the investigation of Quad/Graphics’s attempted acquisition of LSC Communications, the two largest commercial printers in the U.S., resulting in the parties abandoning the deal post-complaint.
• Led the investigation of Disney’s acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox, resulting in a consent decree requiring divestiture of all the target’s regional sports networks.