Lilly Rohan

M&A

• Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) on its $23.7 billion sale to Sycamore Partners
• Ithaca Holdings on its pending $1.3 billion acquisition of Bumble Inc (Nasdaq: BMBL)
• Huntsman (NYSE: HUN) in its pending merger of equals with Olin (NYSE: OLN)
• Kimberly-Clark (Nasdaq: KMB) in its pending $48.7 billion acquisition of Kenvue (NYSE: KVUE), a provider of consumer health products
• OpenAI in its acquisition of TBPN, a daily, live tech talk show
• Clearwater Analytics in its $8.4 billion sale to an investor group led by Permira and Warburg Pincus
• WK Kellogg (NYSE: KLG) in its $3.1 billion sale to the Ferrero Group
• EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) on its $35 billion merger with Equitrans Midstream Corporation (NYSE: ETRN)
• Perficient, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRFT), a digital consultancy, on its $3 billion sale to EQT
• Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBD) on a new corporate structure that will comprise two divisions: Global Linear Networks and Streaming & Studios
• Bain Capital Insurance on its reinsurance brokerage joint venture with WTW (Nasdaq: WTW)
• TPG Rise Climate in its investment in Elevated Materials, a joint venture with Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT) to produce ultra-thin lithium films for next generation batteries
• Greenbriar Equity Group, L.P. in its acquisition of Renuity, a tech-enabled home services platform

Shareholder Activism Defense

• Wyndham Hotels & Resorts in its successful defense of hostile takeover and full slate proxy contest by Choice Hotels (NYSE: WH)
• Southwest Airlines in its cooperation agreements with Elliott Investment Management to resolve Elliott’s threatened special meeting proxy contest seeking to replace its CEO and a majority of the board (NYSE: LUV)
• Azenta in connection with its cooperation agreement with Politan Capital Management (Nasdaq: AZTA)