Mark Stagliano

Mark Stagliano is a partner in the corporate department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Mark’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, securities matters and corporate governance. He has advised companies in a variety of industries on a wide range of matters, including domestic and cross-border acquisitions and divestitures, IPOs and other capital market transactions, spin-offs, joint ventures, private equity transactions, as well as takeover defense, shareholder activism and proxy contests.

In 2020, Mark was named a “Rising Star” by The Deal, which recognized him as one of the 28 most promising new M&A partners.

Mark received a B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2011.

• Uber Technologies in its $2.65 billion acquisition of Postmates and its sale of its autonomous vehicle technologies business, Apparate USA, to Aurora Innovation, as well as Aurora Innovation’s $11 billion SPAC transaction with Reinvent Technology Partners Y
• United Technologies in its $147 billion merger of equals with Raytheon, its $30.3 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins, its spin-offs of Carrier Global and Otis Worldwide, its $1.925 billion sale of its military GPS business to BAE Systems and numerous other transactions
• T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom in the $146 billion combination of T-Mobile and Sprint, the $5 billion sale of Sprint’s prepaid wireless business to DISH, and the combination of T-Mobile with MetroPCS at a $30 billion enterprise valuation
• Hill-Rom in its $12.4 billion acquisition by Baxter International
• AIG in its $2.2 billion sale of a 9.9% equity interest in its Life and Retirement business to Blackstone
• Grupo Televisa in its $4.8 billion combination of its content business with Univision
• W.R. Grace in its $7 billion all-cash sale to Standard Industries
• Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation in its $4 billion acquisition by Industrial Logistics Properties Trust
• Columbia Property Trust in its $3.9 billion acquisition by funds managed by PIMCO
• Ventas in its $2.3 billion all-stock acquisition of New Senior Investment Group
• Medline in its sale of a majority interest to Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman
• HP Inc. in its successful defense against the $34 billion unsolicited exchange offer and associated proxy contest by Xerox
• Pfizer in its agreed $160 billion combination with Allergan plc and its $5.2 billion acquisition of Anacor Pharmaceuticals
• Shaw Communications in its C$26 billion combination with Rogers Communications
• Monsanto in its $66 billion acquisition by Bayer AG
• Gap Inc. in its now-abandoned separation into two independent public companies
• Mondelez in its approximately $500 million acquisition of Tate’s Bake Shop
• Alcoa in its separation into two public companies, Arconic and Alcoa, and Arconic in its separation into two public companies, Arconic and Howmet Aerospace
• Arconic in its proxy contest and settlement agreements with Elliott Management
• Gramercy Property Trust in its $7.6 billion acquisition by Blackstone
• MeadWestvaco in its $16 billion combination with Rock-Tenn
• Publicis Groupe S.A. in its $3.7 billion acquisition of Sapient Corporation
• Saks Inc. in its $2.9 billion sale to Hudson’s Bay
• Sears Holdings in its $1.6 billion rights offering for Seritage Growth Properties and joint venture transactions with Macerich, Simon Properties Group and General Growth Properties
• Expedia in its $270 million investment in Despegar and the subsequent IPO of Despegar
• Valero Energy Corp. in its $2.1 billion spinoff of CST Brands
• Berry Plastics Group in its $470 million IPO
• Guild Holdings in its $97.5 million IPO

• University of Pennsylvania, B.A. 2007, summa cum laude
• Harvard Law School, J.D. 2011, magna cum laude