Frederick S. Green is the co-chair of Weil’s Transactions Practice (Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Infrastructure Investment), and serves on the firm’s Management Committee. He is an established practitioner with broad experience in corporate and securities transactions. Mr. Green's primary areas of practice include business combinations (mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and joint ventures), advising clients and Boards of Directors with respect to corporate governance and fiduciary duties, and counseling with respect to a broad range of commercial affairs. Mr. Green also regularly advises investment banking firms in merger & acquisition matters.
Recent Experience
- Alfa in acquisitions of Wellman Holdings and various chemicals businesses from Eastman Chemicals
- Verizon in the acquisitions of Terremark Holdings and Cloudswitch
- Port Authority of New York & New Jersey in a restructuring and development transaction involving the expansion of the terminal facility operated by Port Newark Container Terminal LLC (PNCT), including a $500 million capital commitment by PNCT
- Macquarie Capital in its successful bid for the right to build FasTracks, Denver's light rail project
- Evercore as financial advisor to The Lubrizol Corporation in Lubrizol's $9 billion acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway
- General Growth Properties in its $7.25 billion recapitalization and spin-off of the Howard Hughes Corporation
- DIRECTV in its $25 billion stock-for-stock merger with Liberty Entertainment
- Macquarie Bank in its $428 million acquisition of asset management firm Delaware Management Holdings from Lincoln National Corporation
- The Special Committee of NDS Group plc in the $3.7 billion take private of NDS by majority shareholder News Corporation and affiliates of Permira Advisers LLP
- Perella Weinberg and Goldman Sachs as financial advisors to Wachovia Bank in its acquisition by Wells Fargo
- Port Authority of N.Y. and N.J. in connection with the multi-billion dollar acquisitions by AIG Infrastructure Fund and Ontario Teachers Pension Fund of container terminals and other infrastructure assets
- Citi as financial advisor to EDS in the $13.9 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard
- Macquarie Bank in its $1.425 billion acquisition of Global Tower Partners
- Macquarie Bank and Goldman Sachs in their $544 million acquisition of Waste Industries
- The Board of General Motors with regard to the proposed alliance with Nissan and Renault, the tender offer by Tracinda Corporation and the $6.9 billion sale of a majority interest in GMAC
- Macquarie Bank in its $634 million acquisition of ICON Parking and the proposed acquisition of Sprint's US cell tower operations
- DIRECTV in its $938 million acquisition of the direct broadcast satellite business of Pegasus Satellite TV
- DIRECTV in its $4.3 billion sale of PanAmSat Corp. to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Mr. Green is consistently recognized in International Financial Law Review's Guide to the World's Leading Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Legal 500 US, Best Lawyers in America, New York Super Lawyers, and has been featured as a "Dealmaker" by The American Lawyer.
Mr. Green is a magna cum laude graduate of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he received a B.S. in Economics, and an honors graduate of Fordham Law School, where he received a J.D. He serves on the Board of The American Red Cross in Greater New York, the Dean's Advisory Board of Fordham Law School, and on Weil's Pro Bono Committee and various other firm committees.