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Brett J. Fleisher

Partner, Skadden

212-735-3428brett.fleisher@skadden.com

One Manhattan West
New York, NY 10001

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Brett Fleisher advises public and private companies, financial sponsors and portfolio companies, family offices and hedge funds on U.S. and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, carve-outs, financings, joint ventures, strategic investments, corporate governance and securities laws matters. She also represents CEOs and management teams in connection with private equity transactions.

Selected representations by Fleisher include:

  • NXP Semiconductors N.V. in numerous transactions, including its:
    • sale of its MEMS sensors business to STMicroelectronics for up to $950 million
    • proposed (but terminated) $47 billion acquisition by Qualcomm Incorporated
  • Dell Technologies, Inc. in its:
    • $859 million sale of SecureWorks Corp. to Sophos Ltd.
    • $4 billion sale of Boomi to Francisco Partners and TPG
  • OceanSound Partners and its portfolio companies in connection with numerous transactions, including:
    • OceanSound’s acquisition of a majority stake in Netrix
    • Gannett Fleming’s merger with Transystems to form GFT Infrastructure
  • Permira Funds in numerous transactions, including:
    • PharmaCord’s merger with Mercalis to form Valeris
    • the $2.2 billion sale of its portfolio company DiversiTech to Partners Group
    • the sale of its portfolio company LSNE to PCI Pharma Services
    • the $4.2 billion sale of a majority stake in Duff & Phelps to Stone Point Capital
    • the $2.3 billion sale of its portfolio company Atrium Innovations to Nestlé S.A.
    • the $2.8 billion sale of its portfolio company Iglo Foods to Nomad Holdings Limited
    • the $3.5 billion sale of its portfolio company Arysta LifeScience to Platform Specialty Products
  • FTV Capital in its investment, alongside Lightyear Capital, in ProfitSolv
  • Purolite Corporation in its $3.7 billion sale to Ecolab Inc.
  • Morgan Stanley, as financial advisor to Spirit Airlines, in connection with Spirit Airlines’ proposed (but terminated) sale to JetBlue for $3.8 billion, as well as its merger (later terminated) with Frontier Group Holdings, the parent company of Frontier Airlines, in a transaction valued at $6.6 billion
  • Amadeus IT Group SA in its $1.52 billion acquisition of TravelClick Inc. from Thoma Bravo
  • Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. and a private equity consortium including The Blackstone Group L.P., The Carlyle Group LP, Permira Funds and TPG Capital, L.P. in Freescale’s merger with NXP Semiconductors N.V. for a combined enterprise value of $40 billion