Allison M. Wein, P.C.

Prior to and since joining Kirkland, Allison’s notable transactions include the following:

• Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in its $8 billion merger of equals with Cedar Fair
• Haynes International in its approximately $1 billion pending sale to North American Stainless
• Mohari Hospitality in its acquisition of Tao Group Hospitality from Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.
• Waters Corporation in its $1.36 billion acquisition of Wyatt Technology
• Disney in its:
  
  • $85 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox
  • Overcoming an interloper bid by Comcast to its original $66 billion agreement
  • $10.6 billion sale of the Fox Regional Sports Networks to Sinclair
  • $3.47 billion sale of its interest in the YES Network to an investor group including the Yankees and Sinclair
  • Agreement with Comcast to assume full operational control of Hulu
  • Endemol Shine’s acquisition by Banijay Group
  • Sale of FoxNext Games to Scopely
  • Sale of a majority stake in Fox TeleColombia & Estudios TeleMexico to ViacomCBS
  • ESPN’s strategic partnership with the XFL and the combination of XFL and USFL to create the United Football League
• Occidental Petroleum in its:
  
  • $57 billion acquisition of Anadarko, topping Anadarko’s original agreement with Chevron
  • $8.8 billion sale of Anadarko’s African assets to Total
  • $10 billion investment by Berkshire Hathaway
  • Defense against Carl Icahn’s written consent solicitation of Occidental shareholders and its subsequent nomination agreement with Carl Icahn
• Kellogg Company in the separation of its North American cereal business, resulting in two independent public companies, WK Kellogg Co and Kellanova
• Honeywell International in connection with its $1.325 billion buyout agreement with the North American Refractories Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement Trust
• IBM in acquisitions and dispositions aggregating more than $3 billion in value, including the sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo and the acquisitions of Sentaca, BoxBoat, myInvenio, the business operations of Lighthouse Security Group, Trusteer and UrbanCode
• FactSet Research Systems in its $1.925 billion acquisition of CUSIP Global Services from S&P Global
• Northrop Grumman in its:
  
  • $3.4 billion sale of its federal IT and mission support business to Veritas Capital
  • $9.2 billion acquisition of Orbital ATK
• Bharti in the acquisition of, and $1 billion investment in, OneWeb by a consortium led by Bharti and Her Majesty’s Government
• Hasbro in the $385 million sale of Entertainment One Music to Blackstone and its $4 billion acquisition of Entertainment One
• Warner Media in its investment in Quibi, as part of Quibi’s $1 billion initial funding round
• AveXis in its $8.7 billion acquisition by Novartis
• OneBeacon Insurance and White Mountains Insurance in the $1.7 billion sale of OneBeacon Insurance to Intact Financial
• British American Tobacco in its $97 billion merger with Reynolds American
• The Strategic Review Committee of the Board of Directors of Yahoo in the $4.48 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s operating business by Verizon
• Ashland in its $600 million acquisition of Pharmachem
• Time Warner in its investment in Hulu
• White Mountains Insurance in its $2.2 billion sale of Sirius International Insurance to China Minsheng Investment
• Precision Castparts in its $37.2 billion acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway
• Quibi in its sale to Roku
• Amblin Partners in the exit of Participant Media as an equity holder and NBCUniversal’s re-investment, also represented Amblin Partners and Steven Spielberg in the formation of Amblin with Participant Media, Reliance Entertainment and Entertainment One
• Xerox in the $1.05 billion sale of its information technology outsourcing business to Atos
• BDT Capital Partners in its equity investment in Marquette Transportation Company
• Johnson & Johnson in its $1.75 billion acquisition of Alios BioPharma
• AerCap in its $28 billion acquisition of International Lease Finance from AIG

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

• Partner, 2019–2022
• Associate, 2011–2018