Andrew T. Davis

Davis’s notable transactions include representing:

• Afterpay in its $29 billion acquisition by Block;

• AP WIP Investments in its $860 million acquisition by Landscape Acquisition;
  
  
• Atalaya Capital Management in its $800 million sale to Blue Owl Capital;

• AXA in its $15.3 billion acquisition of XL;
  
  
• Bacardi in its acquisition of ILEGAL Mezcal;

• BDT in its majority investment in Marquette Transportation;
  
  
• Bridge Investment Group’s special committee in the $1.5 billion acquisition by Apollo;
  
  
• Cable One in the formation of Clearwave Fiber, a joint venture with GTCR, Stephens Capital Partners and The Pritzker Organization;

• Cano Health shareholders, including members of management, in the $4.4 billion SPAC merger with Jaws Acquisition, which included an $800 million PIPE investment;
  
  
• Corteva in the pending spin-off of its Seed business;
  
  
• Cox Enterprises in Cox Communications’ pending $34.5 billion combination with Charter Communications;

• Deutsche Telekom in its Master Framework Agreement with SoftBank and T‑Mobile, pursuant to which DT consented to SoftBank’s sale of T‑Mobile shares for approximately $20 billion;

• Disney in ESPN’s pending acquisition of NFL Network and other media assets from the NFL in exchange for a 10% equity stake in ESPN, the combination of its Hulu + Live TV business with Fubo, ESPN’s proposed joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch Venu Sports and ESPN’s strategic alliance with PENN Entertainment to launch ESPN BET;
  
  
• Endeavor’s special committee in the $25 billion take‑private acquisition by Silver Lake;

• FactSet in its $246.5 million acquisition of LiquidityBook, its $1.925 billion acquisition of CUSIP Global Services from S&P Global and its acquisition of Irwin;

• Forward Air in its combination with Omni Logistics, creating a $3.7 billion company;
  
  
• Grubhub and Just Eat Takeaway.com in Grubhub’s sale to Wonder;

• GW Pharmaceuticals in its $7.2 billion acquisition by Jazz Pharmaceuticals;

• Hibu Group in the sale of its U.S. business to H.I.G. Capital;

• The special committee of the Hudson board of directors in the sale of all remaining equity interests in Hudson to Dufry;

• IBM in its acquisitions of AlchemyAPI and Blue Box Group;

• Johnson & Johnson in connection with multiple transactions, including the IPO and separation of Kenvue, its pending $3.05 billion acquisition of Halda Therapeutics, its $14.6 billion acquisition of Intra‑Cellular Therapies, its $2 billion acquisition of Ambrx, its $16.6 billion acquisition of Abiomed, its $6.5 billion acquisition of Momenta, Ethicon’s $3.4 billion acquisition of Auris Health, its $30 billion acquisition of Actelion, its ¥230 billion acquisition of Ci:z, the $2.1 billion sale of LifeScan to Platinum Equity and the $2.8 billion sale of its Advanced Sterilization Products business to Fortive;

• Just Eat Takeaway.com in its $7.3 billion acquisition of Grubhub;

• Knorr-Bremse in its $149.5 million acquisition of R.H. Sheppard and the sale of R.H. Sheppard to Balmoral Funds;

• Lindsay Goldberg and its portfolio companies in connection with multiple transactions, including Amentum’s Reverse Morris Trust merger with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, creating a combined organization with $13 billion in revenue, and its $1.9 billion acquisition of PAE and acquisition of DynCorp International; the sale of Liquid Tech Solutions to Velocity Rail Solutions, a Wind Point Partners portfolio company; the acquisition of Golden State Foods; Summit Interconnect’s acquisition of Royal Circuit Solutions; the sale of Pixelle to H.I.G. Capital; the acquisition of a majority interest in Pike; and its acquisition of VDM from ThyssenKrupp;
  
  
• The senior executive team of McLarens Global Limited in connection with the $1.6 billion recapitalization of McLarens by Lee Equity Partners;
  
  
• Newcrest in its A$28.8 billion acquisition by Newmont;

• OLX Group in letgo’s combination with OfferUp of their U.S. businesses and OLX Brazil in its R$2.9 billion acquisition of Grupo ZAP;
  
  
• OUTFRONT Media in the C$410 million divestiture of its Canadian business to Bell Media;

• Pitney Bowes in the sale of Borderfree to Global‑e and the $700 million sale of its Software Solutions business to Syncsort;

• Prosus in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Stack Overflow and its $500 million PIPE investment in connection with Churchill II SPAC’s $1.5 billion merger with Skillsoft and acquisition of Global Knowledge;
  
  
• Radius Global Infrastructure in its $3 billion acquisition by EQT Active Core Infrastructure and PSP Investments;

• Richemont in its $1.1 billion PIPE investment in Farfetch, in partnership with Alibaba;

• Robinhood in its initial public offering and its $300 million acquisition of TradePMR;

• Robotic Research in its $228 million Series A financing round;

• Scientific Games in the $6.05 billion sale of SG Lottery to Brookfield;
  
  
• SMBC Aviation Capital in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Goshawk Aviation;
  
  
• The Snyder family in the $6.05 billion sale of the NFL’s Washington Commanders to a partnership led by Josh Harris;

• Tabula Rasa in its $570 million take‑private acquisition by Nautic;
  
  
• TaskUs’s special committee in the proposed $2 billion take-private acquisition by Blackstone and the company’s co‑founders;

• Unilever in its acquisition of OLLY and its $384 million acquisition of TAZO from Starbucks;

• Univision in its sale of a majority stake to Searchlight and ForgeLight; 
  
  
• WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, creating Smurfit WestRock; and
  
  
• Wiz in its pending $32 billion acquisition by Google.