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Stan Richards
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+1-212-373-3113
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1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019-6064
Fax: +1-212-492-0113

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Stan Richards is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. His practice focuses on public and private company acquisitions and divestitures, including mergers, stock purchases, asset purchases, and joint ventures across a variety of industries. His practice also includes advising clients on corporate governance and activist defense issues.

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Stan’s representations include advising:

  • 3M in the $5.3 billion sale of its food safety business to Neogen Corporation in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction
  • Abbott Laboratories in the $4.325 billion sale of its vision care business to Johnson & Johnson
  • Agios Pharmaceuticals in the sale for up to $2 billion of its oncology business to Servier Pharmaceuticals
  • American Eagle in its acquisition of Quiet Logistics
  • Annaly Capital Management in its acquisition of MTGE Investment
  • Assurance in its $2.35 billion sale to Prudential Financial
  • Bank of N.T. Butterfield in its initial public offering
  • Becton, Dickinson in the spin-off of its diabetes care business
  • Broadcom in its $10.7 billion acquisition of Symantec's enterprise security business; the sale of Symantec's cybersecurity services business to Accenture; and the sale of its Blazemeter platform to Perforce Software
  • Cengage Learning in its proposed merger with McGraw-Hill Education
  • Chevron Corporation in its $60 billion acquisition of Hess Corporation
  • Cousins Properties in its merger with TIER REIT, creating a combined company with an equity market capitalization of approximately $5.9 billion
  • C.R. Bard in its $24 billion merger with Becton, Dickinson
  • Dorian LPG in its response to an unsolicited proposal for all its outstanding common shares and associated proxy contest by BW LPG
  • EQT Corporation in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Rice Energy
  • FMC in its acquisition of DuPont's crop protection business in exchange for FMC's health and nutrition business and $1.2 billion in cash
  • The Strategic Review Committee of the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications in its $20 billion sale to Verizon Communications
  • Lexmark in its $3.6 billion sale to a consortium of investors led by Apex Technology and PAG Asia Capital
  • Maiden Holdings in its combination with Kestrel Group to form a new, publicly listed specialty insurance company
  • PPG Industries in its €1.1 billion acquisition of Tikkurila
  • QXO in its $11 billion unsolicited offer to acquire Beacon Roofing Supply
  • Rayonier in its acquisition of Pope Resources
  • Revolution Plastics in its sale to Arsenal Capital Partners
  • S&P Global in its $44 billion acquisition of IHS Markit
  • The Sands family in its agreement with Constellation Brands to eliminate the company’s Class B common stock
  • Sealed Air in its $1.15 billion acquisition of Liquibox
  • SilverCrest Metals in its $1.7 billion sale to Coeur Mining
  • Square in the sale of Caviar, its food delivery and pickup services business, to DoorDash
  • Starbucks Corporation in its successful proxy contest defense against the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of labor unions
  • Westrock Coffee in its acquisition of S&D Coffee from Cott Corporation

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