David M. Rievman

Significant representations include:

• Adevinta ASA in its $9.2 billion acquisition of eBay Classifieds Group from eBay Inc.
• Armstrong World Industries, Inc. in the tax-free spin-off of its flooring and ceiling businesses into two separate, publicly traded companies
• Bentley Pharmaceuticals in its spin-off of CPEX, Inc. and in the $360 million sale of Bentley to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
• The Coca-Cola Company in several matters, including:
  • the U.S. tax matters related to the combination of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc., CocaCola Iberian Partners SA (Spain) and Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG (Germany) to form a new company called Coca-Cola European Partners plc
  • the combination of its South and East African non-alcoholic, ready-to-drink bottling operations with those of SABMiller plc and Gutsche Family Investments in a joint venture with approximately $2.3 billion of gross assets and $2.9 billion of annual revenue
  • the tax-free split-off of the European bottling businesses of Coca Cola Enterprises (CCE), its 35 percent-owned, publicly traded subsidiary, resulting in Coca-Cola’s tax-free acquisition of 100 percent of CCE, which owns Coca-Cola’s North American bottling business
  • its $4.1 billion acquisition of Energy Brands d/b/a/ Glacéau
  • its acquisitions of Honest Tea and Fuze Beverage
  • the acquisition of its minority-owned, publicly traded Greek subsidiary, Coca-Cola Hellenic, by HBC, a Swiss corporation
• Convera in its $910 million acquisition of Western Union Business Solutions
• Dover Corporation in the tax-free spin-off of certain of its communication technologies businesses into a separate, publicly traded company called Knowles Corporation
• DuPont de Nemours, Inc. in the $45.4 billion merger of its Nutrition & Biosciences business with International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. This was a reverse Morris trust transaction
• E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company 
• Express Scripts, Inc. in its $4.7 billion acquisition of WellPoint, Inc.’s NextRx subsidiaries; and $29.1 billion acquisition of Medco Health Solutions, Inc., which was named Corporate Deal of the Year by Mergermarket at the Americas’ M&A Awards 2011
• Joh. A. Benckiser, a holding company based in Germany, in its $1 billion acquisition of Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc.; and $340 million acquisition of Caribou Coffee Company, Inc.
• Liberty Interactive Corporation in its:
  • tax-free split-off of Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc.
  • acquisition and split-off of General Communication, Inc. This transaction was named Americas Media and Entertainment Tax Deal of the Year at International Tax Review’s Americas Tax Awards 2018
• Liberty Media Corporation in:
  • the tax aspects of the $4.8 billion spin-off of its cable assets into a separate, publicly traded company. The new unit is called Liberty Broadband Corp.
  • its split-off of Atlanta Braves Holdings
  • its pending split-off of its 83% interest in SiriusXM, followed by a merger of Splitco with SiriusXM
• Paul Allen, as principal shareholder of Charter Communications, Inc., in connection with the prearranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Charter Communications
• TOM FORD in its acquisition by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. at an enterprise value of $2.8 billion
• Valeant Pharmaceuticals International in several transactions, including its $3.5 billion merger with Biovail Corporation; and $8.7 billion acquisition of Bausch & Lomb Inc.
• Vulcan, Inc. in connection with the spin-off and $1 billion IPO of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
• Yahoo! Inc. in the $4.5 billion sale of its operating business to Verizon Communications Inc.