Recent experience includes advising:

Mergers & Acquisitions

• The Dow Chemical Company in its $130 billion all-stock merger of equals with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
 
• Transaction Committee of the Board of Directors of Reynolds American Inc. in Reynolds’ $60.6 billion sale to British American Tobacco p.l.c. (BAT) of the 57.8% of Reynolds stock that BAT did not already own
 
• Dow in its approximately $40 billion spin-off from DowDuPont Inc. as part of DowDuPont's separation into three independent, publicly traded companies, one each for its agriculture, materials science and specialty products businesses
 
• MSP Recovery, LLC in its $32.6 billion business combination with Lionheart Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC sponsored by Lionheart Equities and Nomura Securities International
 
• The Kroger Company in its pending $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons Companies, Inc.
 
• Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. in its $27.5 billion sale to Analog Devices, Inc.
 
• Willis Group Holdings in its $18 billion merger with Towers Watson & Co.
 
• MGM Resorts International in its $17.2 billion sale of MGM Growth Properties LLC to VICI Properties Inc.
 
• Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. in its $14.6 billion merger with Discovery Communications, Inc.
 
• Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and Brookfield Property Partners L.P. (BPY) in BPY's $14.4 billion acquisition of the approximately 66% of common stock that it did not already own of GGP Inc. (f/k/a General Growth Properties Inc.)
 
• Sanofi in its $25 billion exchange of Merial, its animal health business, for the consumer healthcare business of Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH; $13 billion sale of nearly all of its 20.6% stake in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; $11.6 billion acquisition of Bioverativ Inc.; $4.8 billion acquisition of Ablynx NV; $3.7 billion acquisition of Principia Biopharma Inc.; $3.2 billion acquisition of Translate Bio, Inc.; tender offer to acquire Provention Bio Inc. for an equity value of approximately $2.9 billion; $2.5 billion acquisition of Synthorx, Inc.; €1.9 billion sale of Zentiva; $1.9 billion acquisition of Kadmon Holdings, Inc.; its up to $1.45 billion acquisition of Kymab, Ltd.; its up to $1.225 billion acquisition of Amunix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and its up to $1.1 billion-plus-royalties sale of the exclusive worldwide rights to Libtayo to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 
• Eli Lilly and Company in its approximately $8 billion acquisition of Loxo Oncology, Inc.; its $1.1 billion acquisition of Dermira, Inc.; and its $1 billion acquisition of Prevail Therapeutics Inc.
 
• MGM Resorts International in its $17.2 billion sale of MGM Growth Properties LLC to VICI Properties Inc.; the formation of a joint venture between MGM Growth Properties LLC (MGP) and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust to acquire the Las Vegas real estate assets of the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay for $4.6 billion and to lease back these assets to subsidiaries of MGM Resorts; $4.25 billion sale of the Bellagio to a joint venture MGM Resorts formed with Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust and its planned leaseback of the Bellagio; and $1.075 billion sale of the operations of The Mirage Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip to Hard Rock International
 
• Brookfield Business Partners in its pending $8 billion sale of Westinghouse Electric Company
 
• Vonage Holdings Corp. in its pending $6.2 billion sale to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
 
• Campbell Soup Company in its $6.1 billion acquisition of Snyder’s-Lance, Inc.
 
• NEOGEN Corporation in its pending $5.3 billion combination with the Food Safety business of 3M, in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that implied an enterprise value of the combined company of $9.3 billion
 
• Getty Images Inc. in its approximately $4.8 billion business combination with CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II, a SPAC formed by a partnership of CC Capital and Neuberger Berman 
 
• Covetrus, Inc. in its $4 billion sale to CD&R, a holder of approximately 24% of Covetrus' outstanding common stock, and TPG
 
• Belmond Ltd. in its $3.2 billion sale to LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE

Private Equity – Execution and Fund Formation

• CPP Investments in the merger of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. with Kronos Incorporated in a deal that values the combined company at $22 billion on an enterprise value basis
 
• Gores Guggenheim, Inc., a SPAC sponsored by affiliates of The Gores Group and Guggenheim Capital, in its $20 billion business combination with Polestar Performance AB
 
• Brookfield Asset Management in its formation of Brookfield Infrastructure Fund IV, L.P., a $20 billion global infrastructure fund — which is the largest private fund raised by Brookfield and the second largest ever raised in the industry. Weil also raised Brookfield Infrastructure Fund III — a $14 billion infrastructure fund
 
• CPP Investments in a consortium that also includes Blackstone and GIC, in the consortium’s acquisition of a 55% stake in Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business (n/k/a Refinitiv), valued by the transaction at $20 billion
 
• Glencore PLC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, as the shareholders of Viterra Ltd., in its approximately $18 billion business combination with Bunge Ltd.
 
• Gores Holdings IV, Inc., a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of The Gores Group, in its business combination with United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC (UWM), in a transaction that values UWM at approximately $16.1 billion
 
• Brookfield Asset Management in its formation of Brookfield Global Transition Fund, its $15 billion flagship sustainable impact fund that’s focused on renewable power and projects and that was, at the time, the world’s largest private fund dedicated to facilitating the global transition to a net-zero carbon economy
 
• Advent International and CPP Investments, as members of a consortium, in the consortium's over $14 billion take-private of McAfee Corporation
 
• Advent International in its $6.4 billion acquisition of Maxar Technologies Inc.; $6 billion sale of Culligan International Company to BDT Capital Partners, with Advent reinvesting on a minority basis; $3 billion merger of its portfolio companies Clearent LLC and Transaction Services Group Limited to form Xplor Technologies; pending $2.7 billion sale of Sovos Brands, Inc. to Campbell Soup Company; and $1.5 billion acquisition of Encora Digital Inc.
 
• Genstar Capital in its formation of Genstar Capital Partners XI, L.P., a buyout fund focused on investments in financial services, healthcare, industrials, and software industries in North America with approximately $12.6 billion in total commitments.
 
• CPP Investments, together with Silver Lake, in its $12.5 billion acquisition of Qualtrics
 
• Genstar Capital in the formation of Genstar Capital Partners X, a buyout fund with approximately $10.2 billion in total commitments
 
• Brookfield Asset Management in its formation of Brookfield Capital Partners V, L.P., a $9 billion private equity fund. Weil also raised Brookfield Capital Partners IV, a $4 billion private equity fund
 
• American Securities in its formation of American Securities Partners VIII, L.P., a $7 billion buyout fund
 
• Brookfield Asset Management in its formation of Brookfield Real Estate Finance Fund VI L.P., a $4 billion real estate debt fund
 
• Altas Partners in its formation of Altas Partners Holdings III LP, a $4 billion growth equity fund focused on investments in North America
 
• SoftBank Group Corp. in its $3.3 billion take-private acquisition of Fortress Investment Group LLC
 
• TPG Inc. in its pending $2.7 billion acquisition of Angelo, Gordon & Co., L.P.
 
• SoftBank Vision Fund in its $2.25 billion minority investment in GM Cruise Holdings LLC (Cruise) alongside a $1.1 billion investment in Cruise by GM and the subsequent $2.1 billion sale of its equity ownership stake in Cruise to GM, with GM reinvesting in Cruise
 
• Blackstone in its acquisitions of, and investments in: New Tradition, Amergint Technologies, Inc., DECA Dental, Dynamo Software, Sustana Group, majority stakes in Certified Collectibles Group LLC and ZO Skin Health, Inc. and minority stakes in PayCargo, LLC (a portfolio company of Insight Partners) and Recurrent Ventures Inc.; its acquisitions and subsequent sales of Aqua Finance, Inc. and Concert Golf Partners; its investments in Hotwire Communications, InCloud, LLC, ISN Software Corporation, Sema4 and Vectra AI; the sale of the US Claims business of DRB Financial Solutions to Further Global; and as controlling shareholder of Vivint Solar, Inc. in the sale of Vivint to Sunrun Inc.

Finance

• The Kroger Co. in committed senior unsecured bridge financing to support its $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons Companies, Inc.
 
• Citi, as administrative agent, and Citi and another financial institution, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, in $21.8 billion committed bridge financing to support the $55 billion acquisition by Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
 
• JPMorgan, as lead arranger and administrative agent, with respect to Ford Motor Company’s over $20 billion in senior unsecured revolving credit facilities
 
• JPMorgan, as administrative agent, lead arranger and bookrunner, in an amendment and extension of both Ford Motor Company’s $13.5 billion Revolving Credit Facilities and its $2 billion Supplemental Revolving Credit Facility, in what was, at the time, the largest aggregated credit facility featuring sustainability-linked pricing in the market
 
• Johnson & Johnson in its $10 billion 364-day revolving facility to refinance and reprice existing indebtedness
 
• Citi in $9.1 billion committed unsecured bridge financing to support the pending acquisition by Parker-Hannifin Corporation of Meggitt plc
 
• Johnson & Johnson in its multi-tranche $7.5 billion senior unsecured notes offering to, primarily, finance its acquisition of Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 
• General Electric Company in a $5.5 billion senior unsecured term and revolving credit facility for GE Healthcare Holding LLC
 
• Asurion, LLC (a portfolio company of Madison Dearborn Partners; Providence Equity Partners; Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; and Berkshire Partners) in a $3.9 billion incremental first lien credit facility to reprice and refinance existing indebtedness
 
• CIBC and another financial institution, as joint lead arrangers, in $2.4 billion bridge and term facilities for Intact Financial Corporation, to finance in part the $12.3 billion acquisition of RSA Insurance Group plc
 
• Campbell Soup Company in its $5.3 billion senior unsecured fixed and floating rate notes offering to, in part, finance its $6.1 billion acquisition of Snyder’s-Lance, Inc.
 
• Iron Mountain Incorporated in $2.5 billion amended and restated senior secured revolving and term facilities, to refinance existing indebtedness
 
• Morgan Stanley, as sole bookrunner, in its $2 billion 144A/Reg S offerings of senior secured and senior guaranteed notes by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. to refinance existing indebtedness
 
• JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and another major financial institution in a senior unsecured bridge facility to support the $23.1 billion merger of Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. and Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.
 
• Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse in $7.5 billion committed bridge financing to support the merger of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) with the Nutrition & Biosciences (N&B) Business of DuPont in a deal that values the combined company at $45 billion on an enterprise value basis
 
• Goldman Sachs and Citi, as administrative agents, in $3 billion senior secured term and revolving facilities for Bausch + Lomb Corporation to finance its spin-off from Bausch Health and for working capital needs
 
• Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. (a public company backed by an investor consortium led by THL Partners, Cannae Holdings, Black Knight and CC Capital) in its $1.98 billion initial public offering and $400 million concurrent private placement
 
• TPG Inc. in its $1.1 billion initial public offering

Antitrust M&A

• Microsoft Corporation in its pending $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc.
 
• Johnson & Johnson in its ~16.6 billion acquisition of heart pump maker Abiomed, Inc., reportedly the largest-ever transaction in the MedTech sector.
 
• Meta Platforms in its acquisition of Within Unlimited, the immersive media startup behind VR fitness app Supernatural.
 
• Microsoft in its $7.5 billion acquisition of ZeniMax Media, Inc.
 
• Sanofi in its ~$3.2 billion acquisition of Provention Bio, Inc., the maker of TZIELD, the first disease modifying treatment for the delay of Stage 3 type 1 diabetes.
 
• MGM Resorts International in its $1.625 billion acquisition of the operations of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas from Blackstone.
 
• Booking Holdings in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Getaroom, a B2B distributor of hotel rooms.
 
• Meta Platforms in its $1 billion acquisition of Kustomer, a customer relationship management (CRM) company.

Recent experience includes advising:

• Altria in winning a $95 million plaintiff jury verdict, as well as follow-on rulings that could be worth up to $1 billion, in a patent infringement suit brought in North Carolina federal court against a competitor regarding smoking cessation technology.
 
• BNSF Railway Company in achieving a significant victory following the first-ever jury trial of claims brought in Illinois federal court under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). After the jury returned a verdict in favor the plaintiff class, Weil convinced the court to vacate a $228M damages award and order a new trial on damages. The parties then entered into a settlement.
 
• Brookfield Asset Management in winning a once-in-a-generation interlocutory appeal in a multi-hundred million dollar stockholder class action before the Delaware Supreme Court that reversed a 15-year-old corporate law precedent, Gentile v. Rossette, which will have a seismic impact on Delaware transactional and corporate law.
 
• Burger King in securing voluntary dismissals of three consumer class actions in California and Florida federal and state courts alleging the failure to disclose the use of allegedly dangerous chemicals in food packaging.
 
• The Carlyle Group in securing a seminal win in Delaware Chancery Court in a material adverse effect clause litigation arising out of a multi-billion dollar transaction that was scuttled due to the COVID pandemic.
 
• Comcast Cable in obtaining a significant trial victory in a patent infringement suit in Florida federal court, winning a ruling on a Rule 50 Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law before the case was handed to the jury, which erased $177 million in potential damages.
 
• Dometic Corporation is securing numerous victories and ultimately final voluntary dismissals of all claims with prejudice in multistate, multi-hundred million dollar putative class actions alleging that cooling units in various Dometic refrigerator models purportedly contained a latent defect.
 
• Giant Eagle in securing a highly favorable mid-trial settlement in the first bellwether trial in the opioid MDL in Ohio federal court on the question of whether pharmacy defendants can face liability for the opioid crisis.
 
• IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG in the successful defense against claims brought by various investors relating to alleged improper conduct and consequential loss participation/write-downs, including a landmark ruling at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in a precedent case for the German banking sector.
 
• Meta Platforms in winning a trial victory in California federal court that defeated the Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to enjoin Meta’s acquisition of Within Unlimited, Inc., the developer of the popular virtual reality fitness app.
 
• Morgan Stanley in successfully resolving expedited litigations and investigations stemming from the company’s role as a financial advisor in connection with the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.
 
• The National Women’s Soccer League Players Association in coordinating and leading a high-profile, headline-making joint investigation into allegations of sexual harassment, abusive coaching, and toxic environments around the league.
 
• Paramount, Scripps Network, and other companies in securing dismissals and other favorable early resolutions of separate nationwide class actions brought under the Video Privacy Protection Act.
 
• PepsiCo in securing a $100 million dollar payout following an arbitration and related litigation arising from a contractual dispute with a high-profile supplement manufacturer.
 
• Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in delivering numerous successful outcome at the ITC and the PTAB in a multi-jurisdictional IP dispute with a competitor regarding Regeneron’s multi-billion dollar eye disease treatment.
 
• Saks Fifth Avenue in winning the dismissal of a consolidated “no poach” putative nationwide antitrust class action alleging Saks and several other luxury brands entered into an agreement not to hire certain Saks employees.
 
• Ryanair in major state aid litigation brought by a competitor in connection with the Hahn airport, including a victory at the German appellate level and representation before the European Court of Justice.
 
• Simon & Schuster in winning two significant victories in separate nationwide, industry-wide antitrust class actions in the S.D.N.Y. regarding the market for ebooks and print books.