Frederick S. Green is the co-chair of Weil’s Transactions Practice (Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Infrastructure Investment). 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 in connection with their relationships with activist investors, 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
- Forge Group in its acquisition of Taggart Global
- Nortek in its acquisition of 2GIG Technologies
- GM in its $4.2 billion reacquisition of much of GMAC’s European and Latin American operations and its share in a Chinese joint venture – GM’s largest M&A transaction since bankruptcy
- Arca in the acquisition of Wise Foods
- Grupo Saltillo in the sale of auto parts castings businesses to a Brazilian company
- Alfa in the acquisitions of various chemicals businesses from Wellman and Eastman Chemicals
- Verizon in the acquisitions of Terremark Worldwide and Cloudswitch
- Port Authority of New York & New Jersey in the expansion of the terminal facility operated by Port Newark Container Terminal LLC (PNCT)
- Macquarie Capital in its successful bid 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
- The Special Committee of NDS Group plc in the $3.7 billion take private of NDS
- Perella Weinberg and Goldman Sachs as financial advisors to Wachovia Bank in its acquisition by Wells Fargo
- Port Authority of New York & New Jersey 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
Mr. Green is consistently recognized by 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 BS in Economics, and an honors graduate of Fordham Law School, where he received a JD. 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 Management Committee, Pro Bono Committee and other firm committees.