Maria Raptis, P.C.
Overview
Maria Raptis is an antitrust and competition partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on advising clients in connection with antitrust aspects of mergers, acquisitions, litigation, investigations and counseling. She represents clients across a wide range of industries, including healthcare and pharmaceuticals, technology, consumer products, financial services, entertainment and manufacturing. She also has substantial experience litigating antitrust cases. Prior to joining Kirkland, her recent matters included defending Activision Blizzard in its acquisition by Microsoft, and Juniper Networks in Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of the company.
Maria has been recognized by Chambers USA, in which clients say she is a “great business partner, incredibly responsive and highly in-tune to the general market.” She also has been named among North America’s Top Antitrust Lawyers and Top Female M&A Lawyers by MergerLinks, as well as Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America and 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers. Additionally, she has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal: Competition.
Experience
Representative Matters
Life Sciences
- Catalent, Inc. in its acquisition by Novo Holdings A/S at an enterprise value of $16.5 billion*
- Livongo Health in its $18.5 billion sale to Teladoc*
- Gilead Sciences, Inc. in its:
- $4.9 billion acquisition of Forty Seven*
- $5.1 billion, 10-year global research and development collaboration and equity investment in Galapagos NV*
- $11.9 billion acquisition of Kite Pharma, Inc.*
- $11 billion acquisition of Pharmasset*
- acquisition of Cell Design Labs for up to $567 million*
- Actavis in its $28 billion acquisition of Forest Laboratories and its $8.5 billion acquisition of Warner Chilcott*
- Array BioPharma in its $11.4 billion acquisition by Pfizer*
- Juno Therapeutics, Inc. in its $11 billion acquisition by Celgene Corporation*
- Iveric Bio in its $5.9 billion sale to Astellas*
- Dicerna Pharmaceuticals in its $3.3 billion sale to Novo Nordisk*
- BELLUS Health in its $2 billion sale to GSK*
- Pandion Therapeutics in its sale to Merck for $1.8 billion*
- CTI BioPharma in its $1.7 billion sale to Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (SOBI)*
- MorphoSys in its $1.7 billion acquisition of Constellation Pharmaceuticals and its related financing from Royalty Pharma totaling over $2 billion*
- Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its $930 million acquisition by Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.*
- Alcon in its $753 million acquisition of Aerie Pharmaceuticals*
- Mayne Pharma Group Limited in its $475 million sale of Metrics Contracts Services to Catalent, Inc.*
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals in its $320 million acquisition of ViaCyte*
- Ionis Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of the remaining outstanding stake of Akcea Therapeutics for $500 million*
- ArQule in its sale to Merck for $2.7 billion*
- Alder BioPharmaceuticals in its sale to Lundbeck for up to $1.95 billion*
- CerSci Therapeutics in its sale to ACADIA Pharmaceuticals for up to $939.5 million*
- Stemline Therapeutics in its sale to Menarini Group for up to $677 million*
- Valeant in its acquisitions of Salix, Medicis, Dermik, Ortho Dermatologics and Biovail*
- Watson in its $5.9 billion acquisition of Actavis and its $1.9 billion acquisition of Andrx*
Technology and Media
- Activision Blizzard Inc. in its $75 billion acquisition by Microsoft Corporation, the largest-ever technology deal and the largest-ever gaming industry deal*
- Juniper Networks in its acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise*
- Xilinx, Inc. in its $50 billion acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.*
- Intelsat in its combination with SES*
- Splunk in its acquisition by Cisco*
- ZeniMax Media Inc. in its $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft Corporation*
- PayPal in its $4 billion acquisition of Honey Science Corporation and its strategic investments in MercadoLibre, Inc. and Uber Technologies, Inc.*
- Entegris in its $6.5 billion cash and stock acquisition of CMC Materials and the pending sale of its electronic chemicals business to Fujifilm for $700 million*
- NXP Semiconductors N.V. in its proposed-but-terminated $47 billion acquisition by Qualcomm Incorporated*
- Airbnb in its $400 million acquisition of Hotel Tonight*
- Intel Corporation in its:
- $15.3 billion acquisition of Mobileye N.V.*
- $1 billion sale of its modem business to Apple*
- its proposed-but-terminated $5.4 billion acquisition of Tower Semiconductor*
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. in its:
- $1.3 billion acquisition of Cray Inc.*
- $1 billion acquisition of Samsung’s printing business*
- Cineworld Group PLC in its $5.9 billion acquisition of Regal Entertainment Group*
- Carbonite, Inc. in its $1.4 billion acquisition by Open Text Corporation*
- Sophos Group plc with U.S. aspects of its $3.9 billion acquisition by Thoma Bravo, LLC*
- TiVo Inc. in its $1.1 billion acquisition by Rovi Corporation*
- NDS Group in its $5 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems*
- SanDisk in its $19 billion acquisition by Western Digital*
Financial Services
- Visa Inc. in its:
- proposed-but-terminated $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid Inc.*
- $2.2 billion acquisition of Tink AB*
- $1 billion acquisition of Pismo*
- First Bancorp. in its $1.1 billion acquisition of Banco Santander S.A.’s (Spain) Puerto Rico banking operations*
Other Experience
- Funds advised by Permira Advisers in numerous transactions*
- Funds advised by Apax Partners in numerous transactions*
*Prior to joining Kirkland
Prior Experience
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Education
- Columbia Law SchoolJ.D.2002
- Columbia CollegeB.A.1998