Ting S. Chen

Chen’s notable transactions include representing:

• Avon in its $3.7 billion acquisition by Natura

• Bacardi in its acquisition of ILEGAL Mezcal
• Banco Sabadell in its defense against the €17 billion unsolicited takeover bid from BBVA
• BDT Capital Partners in its equity investments in Tory Burch, KIND, Marquette Transportation Company and Alliance Laundry Systems

• British American Tobacco in its $97 billion merger with Reynolds American and its $4.7 billion investment in Reynolds American as part of Reynolds American’s $27.6 billion acquisition of Lorillard, as well as in Reynolds American’s related $7.1 billion sale of the KOOL, Salem, Winston, Maverick and blu eCigs brands and other assets and liabilities to Imperial Tobacco Group

• CardWorks in its acquisition of Ally’s credit card business
• DHT in an unsolicited acquisition proposal from Frontline

• DreamWorks Animation in its $4.1 billion sale to Comcast

• Genpact in connection with an approximately $1 billion investment by Bain Capital
• Global Blood Therapeutics in its $5.4 billion acquisition by Pfizer

• Honeywell in its $300 million sale of Honeywell Technology Solutions to KBR
• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey in its reorganization into a mutual holding company

• IBM in its acquisition of Accelalpha, its acquisition of assets from Spanugo, its acquisition of Armanta and the $505 million sale of its worldwide customer care business process outsourcing services business to SYNNEX

• Illumina in its $8 billion acquisition and subsequent spin‑off of GRAIL, its pending acquisition of SomaLogic, its proxy contest against Carl Icahn and its interactions with Corvex
• InterMune in its $8.9 billion sale to Roche
• Johnson & Johnson in its $14.6 billion acquisition of Intra‑Cellular Therapies and its $2 billion acquisition of Ambrx

• KKR’s board committee in KKR’s conversion to a corporation and KKR’s $2.6 billion acquisition of KKR Financial Holdings

• Kraft in the spin‑off of its $30 billion North American grocery business and the $3.7 billion sale of its frozen pizza business to Nestlé

• Lundbeck in its acquisition of Chelsea Therapeutics for cash and contingent value rights representing a total possible consideration of $660 million
• New Senior in its $2.3 billion acquisition by Ventas

• OneBeacon Insurance and White Mountains Insurance in the $1.7 billion sale of OneBeacon Insurance to Intact Financial

• Pitney Bowes in the $700 million sale of its Software Solutions business to Syncsort, its $475 million acquisition of Newgistics and its $395 million acquisition of Borderfree

• Qualcomm in the commercial terms of its settlement of global litigation with Apple, including a global six‑year patent license agreement and a multiyear chipset supply agreement

• The Ricketts family in the $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade by Charles Schwab
• Russell Stover Candies in its sale to the Lindt & Sprüngli Group
• SPANX in its sale of a majority stake to Blackstone

• Starbucks in its commercial arrangement with Oprah Winfrey to launch Oprah Chai

• Temasek in its investments in Fanatics and Virtu Financial
• Thermo Fisher Scientific in its $20.9 billion acquisition of PPD and its $3.1 billion acquisition of Olink

• The Washington Post in the $250 million sale of its newspaper publishing businesses, including The Washington Post newspaper, to Jeff Bezos

• White Mountains Insurance in the $2.6 billion sale of Sirius International Insurance to China Minsheng Investment, its and Oaktree Capital’s $250 million investment in Kudu Investment Management and its majority investment in TRANZACT

• Zale in its $1.5 billion sale to Signet Jewelers