Patricia Vaz de Almeida is a partner in the Capital Markets Group. Patricia’s practice focuses on advising clients on public company mergers and acquisitions (including cross-border mergers and acquisitions), as well as securities and capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings, investment grade and high-yield debt offerings and other equity and debt securities transactions. Patricia also regularly advises clients on activist defense, proxy contests, corporate governance and compliance matters, reporting obligations and other corporate matters.

Prior to moving to New York in 2015, Patricia was located in the firm’s London office, where she focused her practice on advising clients in connection with cross-border capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, PIPEs offerings, rights issues, as well as cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including going private transactions.

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