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.
Richards’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
- Agios Pharmaceuticals in the sale for up to $2 billion of its oncology business to Servier Pharmaceuticals
- Amazon in its $10.8 billion acquisition of Globalstar
- Annaly Capital Management in its acquisition of MTGE Investment
- Bank of N.T. Butterfield in its initial public offering
- Becton, Dickinson in the spin-off of its diabetes care business
- Chevron Corporation in its $55 billion acquisition of Hess Corporation
- 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
- The Strategic Review Committee of the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications in its $20 billion sale to Verizon Communications
- Kraft Heinz in its separation into two independent publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off
- PPG Industries in its €1.1 billion acquisition of Tikkurila
- Rayonier in its acquisition of Pope Resources
- Revolution Plastics in its sale to Arsenal Capital Partners
- The Sands family in its agreement with Constellation Brands to eliminate the company’s Class B common stock
- 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
