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Trends and Developments Contributed by: Karessa Cain, Gregory Pessin, Mark Veblen, Victor Goldfeld, George Tepe and Courtney Hauck Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
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Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz operates from a sin - gle New York office, regularly handling many of the largest, most complex and demanding transactions in the United States and around the world. The firm counsels both public and private acquirers and tar - gets, advising on mergers, acquisitions, LBOs, di - vestitures, restructurings and liability management transactions, across many industries. Recent repre -
sentations include: Warburg Pincus in its USD2 bil - lion acquisition of Keystone Agency Partners; Global Payments in its USD24.25 billion acquisition of World - pay from FIS and GTCR; TowerBrook Capital Part - ners in its USD8.9 billion acquisition of R1 RCM Inc. with CD&R; Apollo in its USD1.85 billion acquisition of U.S. Silica; and T-Mobile its USD4.9 billion invest - ment in a joint venture with KKR to acquire Metronet.
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Karessa Cain is a corporate partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz focusing on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and corporate and securities matters. She has worked on a wide range of
transformative corporate transactions. He also regularly represents parties to high-stakes conflicts involving debt and financing issues, and advises investors in and purchasers and sellers of distressed entities. He has represented affiliates of Towerbrook Capital, Apollo Management, The Carlyle Group, Flexpoint Ford and other private equity sponsors with respect to acquisition financings for various portfolio companies. He also routinely advises many of the country’s largest public companies on financings for major acquisitions.
transactions, including domestic and cross-border acquisitions, private equity transactions, spin-offs, takeover defence, shareholder activism and proxy contests, joint ventures and capital markets transactions. Her representations include Apollo Global Management in its USD7.1 billion acquisition of Tenneco; Coherent in its USD1.8 billion investment from Bain Capital in connection with a USD7 billion M&A transaction; and eBay in its sale and exchange of shares of Adevinta ASA as part of the USD14 billion acquisition of Adevinta by a consortium led by Permira and Blackstone. Chambers recognises Karessa as a leading corporate/M&A lawyer.
Mark Veblen is a corporate partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz focusing on mergers and acquisitions and corporate/securities matters, and has particular expertise in the area of financial institutions. Mark has
represented clients across a variety of matters, including multiple private equity sponsors in the acquisition of TIAA Bank, Warburg Pincus in various matters, including its acquisition and sale of Kestra Financial and acquisition of Keystone Agency Partners; Fortress in its investment in Nassau Financial Group; and Flexpoint Ford in its acquisition of Lereta. He writes frequently on M&A and financial institutions matters and is widely published.
Gregory Pessin is a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Restructuring and Finance department. He focuses on representing borrowers with respect to all types of financing for
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