Laura C. Turano is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group and the firm’s corporate hiring partner. Turano’s practice focuses on advising clients in connection with public and private company mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, carve-outs and other significant transactions. She also advises clients on activist defense and corporate governance matters. Turano is a member of the Advisory Counsel of the NYU Law Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance and is an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law teaching mergers & acquisitions.
Turano’s notable representations have included:
- 3G Capital in its approximately $9 billion acquisition of Skechers U.S.A. and its $7.1 billion acquisition of Hunter Douglas
- Ashton Kutcher in his investment in Soho House & Co. in connection with Soho House’s $2.7 billion take-private transaction
- AstraZeneca in its $2.7 billion acquisition of ZS Pharma
- Baker Hughes in its proposed $38 billion merger with Halliburton; the formation of its hydraulic-fracturing joint venture with CSL Capital and West Street Energy Partners; its $32 billion merger with GE Oil & Gas and GE’s subsequent sell-down of its majority stake in Baker Hughes; and the formation of its global offshore drilling joint venture with Akastor
- Chico’s FAS in its $1 billion sale to Sycamore Partners
- The special committee of Duck Creek Technologies’ board of directors in connection with Duck Creek’s $2.6 billion take-private sale to Vista Equity Partners
- The Estée Lauder Companies in its $2.8 billion acquisition of the Tom Ford brand
- ExxonMobil in its $2.5 billion acquisition of InterOil
- Fernando Chico Pardo and his family in their $2.3 billion acquisition of a 25% equity stake in Grupo Financiero Banamex from Citi
- General Mills in its $1.45 billion acquisition of Whitebridge Pet Brands’ North American premium Cat feeding and Pet treating business from NXMH
- Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division in its acquisition of Boyd Corporation
- The Kraft Heinz Company in the exclusive, perpetual extension of its licensing deal with TGI Fridays to make TGI Fridays-branded frozen appetizers for retail sale across North America
- The special committee of the board of directors of Madison Square Garden Entertainment in the spin-off of its traditional live entertainment businesses, to create a new publicly traded company known as Sphere Entertainment Co.
- Merck & Co. in its $11.5 billion acquisition of Acceleron Pharma and its $10.8 billion acquisition of Prometheus Biosciences
- Mizuho Financial Group in its acquisition of Greenhill & Co.
- Ovintiv in its acquisition of all outstanding shares of NuVista Energy for an enterprise value of $2.7 billion
- PharMerica in its approximately $1.4 billion sale to KKR
- PRA Health Sciences in its approximately $12 billion sale to ICON
- Resolute Holdings and its affiliates in their acquisition of a majority interest in CompoSecure and in a transaction to collapse CompoSecure’s Up-C structure
- Restaurant Brands International in its $1 billion acquisition of Firehouse Restaurant Group and its $1 billion acquisition of Carrols Restaurant Group
- Secureworks in its all-cash take-private sale to Sophos
- Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter in connection with a long-term agreement that renews their partnership with D’USSE
- SS&C in its acquisition of Citigroup’s Alternative Investor Services business
- Teladoc Health in its $18.5 billion merger with Livongo Health
- Universal Music Group in the unsolicited proposal by Pershing Square Capital Management
- Vereniging Aegon, largest shareholder of Aegon, in a governance framework agreement related to Aegon’s redomiciliation to the United States
- VF Corp. in the sale of the Nautica brand to Authentic Brands Group
