Selected M&A transactions include eBay in its sale of eBay Classifieds to Adevinta and its sale of StubHub to viagogo; HP Inc. in its successful defense against a hostile takeover bid by Xerox; salesforce.com in its acquisitions of Tableau Software and MuleSoft; Hewlett Packard Enterprise in its acquisition of Cray and its Reverse Morris Trust transaction combining its Software Business with Micro Focus International; Mondelēz in its acquisition of Give & Go; Envision Healthcare in its sale to KKR; Financial Engines in its sale to Hellman & Friedman; AOL in its sale to Verizon and acquisition of Millennial Media; The Carlyle Group in its acquisitions of Duff & Phelps and CFGI; GTECH in its acquisition of International Game Technology; International Game Technology in its sale of DoubleDown to DoubleU Games; Wells Fargo in the sale of its Health Savings Account Business to UnitedHealth and its Shareowner Services Business to Equiniti; Capital One in numerous acquisitions, including of ING Direct USA, GE Capital’s Healthcare Finance Business, HSBC’s Domestic Credit Card Business, Cabela’s credit card program and Walmart’s credit card program; Final in the sale of its assets to Goldman Sachs; Teneo in its investments by CVC Capital Partners and BC Partners, as well as numerous acquisitions; Cantor Fitzgerald in its sale of Berkeley Point to BGC Partners; the Cleveland Browns in its sale to Jimmy Haslam; the Aston Villa Football Club in its sale to Recon Group; Atlas Energy in its sale to Chevron; Ventas in its acquisition of Atria Senior Living; Knight Capital in its merger with GETCO; Itaú Unibanco in the merger of its Chilean and Colombian operations with CorpBanca; Rockefeller Capital Management in its acquisition of Financial Clarity; and City National Bank, The Huntington National Bank, Suffolk Bancorp, Mechanics Bank, Encore Bancshares, National Bank Holdings and Hilltop Holdings in various bank M&A transactions.
Selected spinoff transactions include Hewlett-Packard Company in its spinoff of Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Nielsen in its spinoff of its Global Connect business; Agilent Technologies in its spinoff of Keysight Technologies; BGC Partners in its spinoff of Newmark; and Atlas Energy in its spinoff of Atlas Resources Partners.
Selected capital raising and investment transactions include Square, Santander Consumer USA, Newmark and National MI in their initial public offerings; salesforce.com in its initial public notes offering; Keysight Technologies in its initial notes offering; Knight Capital in its preferred stock financing by Jefferies, Blackstone, GETCO, Stephens Investments, Stifel Financial and TD Ameritrade; Suffolk Bancorp in its PIPE common stock financing; Social Finance (SoFi) in separate financings led by Qatar Investment Authority and Silver Lake Partners; Warburg Pincus in its investment in Varo Money; CardWorks in its investments by PIMCO, Parthenon Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners; and Mondelēz in its venture investments.
