EXPERIENCE

Patricia’s representations include advising:

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Chevron in its $60 billion acquisition of Hess Corporation; its $7.6 billion acquisition of PDC Energy; its $3.15 billion acquisition of Renewable Energy Group; its $13 billion acquisition of Noble Energy; and its proposed $50 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum
• Inhibrx in the $2.2 billion sale of INBRX-101 to Sanofi and the related spin-off of Inhibrx's non-INBRX-101 business
• AbbVie in its acquisition of Landos Biopharma
• Endeavor Energy Resources in its $26 billion merger with Diamondback Energy
• Restaurant Brands International in its $1 billion acquisition of Carrols Restaurant Group and $1.8 billion acquisition of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
• Chico’s FAS in its $1 billion sale to Sycamore Partners
• Sir Jim Ratcliffe in his acquisition of 25% of Manchester United Football Club
• WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, creating Smurfit WestRock
• World Wrestling Entertainment in its agreement with Endeavor Group Holdings to merge WWE with UFC to form a new publicly listed company, with an enterprise value of $21.4 billion
• Hemisphere Media Group in its take-private sale to a subsidiary of Gato Investments, a portfolio investment of Searchlight Capital Partners, including the company's sale of Pantaya to TelevisaUnivision
• General Motors Co. in its $3.45 billion acquisition of SoftBank Vision Fund’s equity ownership stake and assumption of Softbank’s investment obligation in the autonomous vehicle joint venture Cruise
• American Finance Trust in its $1.3 billion acquisition of 81 multi-tenant retail properties throughout the United States from CIM Real Estate Finance Trust
• The special committee of the board of directors of QAD in its $2 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
• The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
• Inspire Brands in its $11.3 billion acquisition of Dunkin’ Brands Group, the parent company of Dunkin’ and Baskin-Robbins
• Teladoc Health in its $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo Health
• Driven Brands, a portfolio company of Roark Capital, in its acquisition of International Car Wash Group
• Alexion Pharmaceuticals in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Portola Pharmaceuticals
• General Electric in the $21.4 billion sale of its BioPharma business to Danaher
• The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Pattern Energy Group in its approximately $6.1 billion acquisition by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
• Ingersoll-Rand in the spin-off and $15 billion merger of its Industrial business with Gardner Denver Holdings
• Simon Property Group in its $3.6 billion acquisition of an 80% ownership interest in The Taubman Realty Group Limited Partnership
• Taylor Morrison in its $2.4 billion acquisition of William Lyon Homes
• Mosaic Acquisition Corp. in its merger with Vivint Smart Home to form a publicly listed company with an enterprise value of approximately $4.2 billion
• The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of CBS Corp. in its $40 billion merger with Viacom, to form ViacomCBS
• The Medicines Company in its $9.7 billion sale to Novartis AG
• Barnes & Noble in its sale to an affiliate of Elliott Management
• WaveDivision Capital and Searchlight Capital Partners in their proposed $1.35 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications’ Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana operations.
• The independent directors of Avon in its $3.7 billion sale to Natura & Co.
• Smith & Nephew in its $660 million acquisition of Osiris Therapeutics
• Virtu Financial in its approximately $1 billion acquisition of Investment Technology Group, the $400 million sale of its fixed income trading venue BondPoint to Intercontinental Exchange and its approximately $1.4 billion all-cash acquisition of retail electronic trading firm KCG Holdings
• ILG in its $4.7 billion sale to Marriott Vacations Worldwide
• Qualcomm in the proposed $47 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors
• CSRA in its $9.7 billion sale to General Dynamics
• Bioverativ in its $11.6 billion sale to Sanofi
• Michael Kors Holdings in its acquisition of Jimmy Choo
• ADMA Biologics in its acquisition of certain manufacturing and therapy-related assets from Biotest Pharmaceuticals Corporation
• ARIAD Pharmaceuticals in its $5.2 billion sale to Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.
• Cable & Wireless Communications in its $1.85 billion acquisition of Columbus International

Activist Defense and Proxy Contests

• Starbucks Corporation in its successful proxy contest against the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of labor unions
• Crown Castle in its successful proxy fight against Boots Capital
• McDonald’s in its proxy contest against Carl Icahn

Capital Markets

• Apollo Global Management in numerous securities offerings including its offerings of:
  • $750 million senior notes
  • $600 million fixed-rate resettable junior subordinated notes
  • $1.438 billion convertible preferred stock
• Carnival Corporation in numerous securities offerings, including in:
  • its private offering of $500 million senior secured notes and its upsized $1.3 billion senior secured first lien term loan B facility
  • $4.3 billion of debt financing transactions, including an offering of $2 billion senior unsecured notes
  • $4 billion of debt financing transactions, including offerings of $775 million senior secured notes and €425 million senior secured notes
  • its offering of €600 million senior notes
• Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in their $500 million convertible preferred stock investment in Cengage Group
• Clear Secure in its $470 million initial public offering
• Latham Group in its $437 million initial public offering
• Weatherford International in its refinancing of its asset-based lending facility through the issuance of $500 million in senior secured first lien notes and its upsize of its senior secured letter of credit agreement
• Vertiv Holdings in its $301.5 million secondary offering
• Aurum Group in its offering of £265 million senior notes
• Yamana Gold in its offering of $300 million senior notes
• Virtu Financial in its $336 million initial public offering
• The lead underwriters in the $135 million initial public offering of AquaVenture Holdings
• NCR Corporation in its offering of $548 million convertible preferred stock
• Initial public offerings by Brit Insurance, Countrywide, Firstgroup, Game Digital, Non-Standard Finance, Stock Spirits Group, among others, and related listings on the London Stock Exchange