Ross A. Fieldston is counsel in the Corporate Department and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group. Mr. Fieldston has significant experience with public company mergers, private acquisitions, proxy contests, joint ventures, hostile defense transactions and public and private securities offerings.

Mr. Fieldston’s experience includes the representation of:

• Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. in its sale to an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, LLC for approximately $798 million, including the assumption of the company's outstanding debt, through a cash tender offer;
• The Clorox Company in its response to the $12.5 billion unsolicited acquisition proposal from Carl C. Icahn;
• Deutsche Telekom in its proposed $39 billion sale of T-Mobile USA to AT&T;
• Thermo Fisher Scientific in its $2.1 billion tender offer for Dionex Corp.;
• Bank of America in its $9.5 billion merchant services joint venture with First Data Corporation;
• Wells Fargo in its May 2009 and December 2009 public offerings of common stock totaling $21.1 billion;
• Bank of America in its merger with Merrill Lynch;
• Delta Air Lines in its $3.6 billion merger with Northwest Airlines;
• JPMorgan Chase in its merger with Bear Stearns;
• Merrill Lynch in its $12.8 billion private issuance of common and preferred equity to Temasek Holding, Davis Selected, Korea Investment Corporation, Kuwait Investment Authority, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Olayan Group, New Jersey Common Pension Fund, T. Rowe Price and TPG-Axon Capital Management;
• Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and J.C. Flowers in their proposed $25.2 billion leveraged buyout of Sallie Mae;
• A.G. Edwards in its $6.8 billion merger with Wachovia Corporation;
• Caremark Rx in its response to a hostile tender offer by Express Scripts and in its $27 billion merger with CVS Corp.; and
• Thermo Electron in its $12.8 billion merger with Fisher Scientific International.

Mr. Fieldston was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also served as a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review and was a James Kent Scholar, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Teaching Fellow.