Scott D. Price, P.C.

M&A Transactions

• Callon Petroleum Company in its pending $3.2 billion acquisition of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.

• Calabrio, a portfolio company of KKR, in its acquisition of Teleopti

• Newfield Exploration Co. in its approximately $5.5 billion acquisition by Encana Corp. in an all-stock transaction

• Bristol-Myers Squibb in its pending $90 billion acquisition of Celgene

• Colfax Corporation in its $3.2 billion acquisition of DJO Global

• Amcor Ltd. in its $6.8 billion acquisition of Bemis Co.

• 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.

• Hamilton Insurance Group in the sale of Hamilton USA and expansion of its strategic partnership with AIG and Two Sigma Insurance Quantified

• Mead Johnson Nutrition in its $17.9 billion sale to Reckitt Benckiser Group plc.

• WGL Holdings, Inc. in its $6.4 billion sale to AltaGas Ltd.

• Accenture in its carve-out acquisition of the corporate advisory and aviation consulting businesses of Seabury Group

• Piedmont Natural Gas in its $4.9 billion sale to Duke Energy

• Given Imaging Ltd. of Israel in its $1 billion sale to Covidien plc.

• Accenture in its $316 million acquisition of Acquity Group

• Duff & Phelps in its sale to a consortium of private equity sponsors

• Bristol-Myers Squibb in the $7 billion acquisition of Amylin Pharmaceuticals and related joint collaboration with AstraZeneca plc

• Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Inhibitex, Inc.

• Burger King in its sale of a stake to Bill Ackman’s SPAC and re-IPO

• Danaher in the $625 million acquisition of color specialist X-Rite

• NRG Energy, Inc. in its agreement to combine with GenOn Energy in a stock-for-stock deal with a combined enterprise value of $18 billion

• Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in the $6.8 billion acquisition of Cephalon, Inc.

• Solutia, Inc. in its $4.7 billion sale of the company to Eastman Chemical Company

• Bristol-Myers Squibb in its acquisition of Zymogenetics

• Community Health Systems, Inc. in the $6.8 billion agreement to acquire Triad Hospitals, Inc. breaking up an existing buyout plan by a group of private-equity funds, utilizing a “go-shop” provision

• Paxar in its sale for $1.4 billion to Avery Dennison

• Raytheon Company in the $3.3 billion sale of its aircraft-manufacturing unit to a private equity consortium including Goldman Sachs and Onex Partners

• Biomet Inc. in its sale for $11 billion to a consortium of private equity sponsors

Private Equity Transactions

• Funds advised by BC Partners in the acquisition of a majority interest in GardaWorld 

• The Blackstone Group in its $1 billion capital commitment to Jetta Permian, LP, a Delaware basin-focused oil and gas exploration and production company

• KKR in its strategic investment in UFC

• Investor group led by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in the $4.7 billion acquisition of Cleco Corporation

• Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisition of American Trailer Works from Southlake Equity Group and subsequent merger with previously acquired Big Tex Trailers

• Bain Capital Private Equity in its acquisition of Big Tex Trailers

• KKR in its acquisition of C.H.I. Overhead Doors

• KKR in its acquisition, along with Anchor Equity Partners and Ticket Monster management, of a controlling interest in Ticket Monster from Groupon in a transaction based on a fully diluted valuation of $782 million

• The Blackstone Group in its partnership with Black Rhino, an African infrastructure development company, to develop large-scale infrastructure projects across Sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on the energy industry

• Starr Investment Holdings in its $4.4 billion acquisition, along with Partners Group, of MultiPlan, Inc.

• 3G Capital in its $28 billion acquisition, along with Berkshire Hathaway, of H. J. Heinz Company

• Pamplona Capital Management in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Coinmach Service Corp. and AIR-serv Group LLC

• Bain Capital Partners in its $760 million acquisition of Consolidated Container Co.

• 3G in its $3 billion acquisition of Burger King

• Bain Capital in its $1 billion acquisition of Air Medical

• Apax Capital Partners in the $700 million acquisition of Bankrate

• Apax Capital Partners in the $1.2 billion acquisition of The Trizetto Group

• Vestar Capital Partners in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Unilever’s laundry assets

• Vestar Capital Partners in its $1.1 billion acquisition of Spotless Holding Corp

Restructuring Transactions

• Representative Restructuring Clients Include: Energy Future Holding, Autocam, Cengage Learning, Charter Communications, Chemtura, Citadel Broadcasting Corporation, Global Aviation, Hawaiian Telecom, Hawker Beechcraft, Ion Media Networks, Local Insight, Longview Power, Majestic Star, Masonite, Muzak, Reader’s Digest, Sbarro, Stallion Oilfields, TOUSA, Inc., Tronox, US Concrete and Visteon.
• Energy Future Holdings in its $18.7 billion sale of the company and its stake in Oncor Electric Delivery Co. to NextEra Energy.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Of Counsel, 2004–2006

The Law Offices of Joseph E. Bachelder, Partner, 2003–2004

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, Associate, 1996-1999 and 2001–2003

American Media, Inc., Executive Vice President and General Counsel, 1999–2001

Dechert, Price & Rhoads, 1990–1996