Dominic Farchione

Representative matters:

• Advent International in its £3.8 billion take-private acquisition of Spectris; its approximately $1.5 billion acquisition of Encora Digital Inc. and in its sale of Certinia Inc. (f/k/a FinancialForce.com, Inc.)
• American Securities and its portfolio company LaserShip, Inc. in its acquisition of OnTrac Logistics, Inc.
• Berkshire Partners in its sale of a minority stake in Parts Town LLC, with Berkshire retaining a majority stake.
• Cedar Fair in its $8 billion merger of equals with Six Flags.
• 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.
• Giant Eagle, Inc. in the sale of its convenience store business GetGo Operating, LLC, including GEI’s GetGo Café +Markets and 270 GetGo locations, to Mac’s Convenience Stores LLC.
• Goldman Sachs in the sale of its Personal Financial Management unit to wealth management firm Creative Planning.
• The Home Depot, Inc. in its $18.25 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution Inc. and its $5.5 billion acquisition of GMS Inc.
• NEOGEN Corporation in its $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.
• PSG in its acquisition of Benchmark Solutions, LLC and its $280 million investment in Protecht Group; Trade School Software in its acquisition of Trajecsys LLC.
• RTI Surgical, Inc. (a portfolio company of Montagu Private Equity) in its acquisition of Cook Biotech Incorporated and Cook Biotech Europe ApS from Cook Group Incorporated
• Sanofi in its approximately $2.2 billion acquisition of Inhibrx, Inc.
• Seven2 and its portfolio company Vitaprotech Group SAS in its pending acquisition of the physical security, access card, and identity reader operations and assets of Identiv, Inc.
• Sunoco LP in its approximately $7.3 billion acquisition of NuStar Energy L.P.
• TruArc Partners in the sale of AI Fire in a transaction that implies an enterprise value over $1 billion and in the sale of Ideal Tridon Group to Nautic Partners.

Previously, Dominic was an associate in Weil’s Complex Commercial Litigation practice, where he focused on litigating commercial, intellectual property, investment and restructuring disputes in state and federal courts.

As a litigation associate, Dominic was part of the teams advising:

• CBL & Associates Properties, Inc., one of the largest mall owners in the United States, and its affiliated debtors in connection with their restructuring of more than $4 billion of obligations.
• Brooks Brothers Group, Inc., America’s oldest clothier, and its affiliated debtors in connection with their chapter 11 cases and $325 million going concern sale.
• A global asset management company, as agent for the secured lenders, in connection with the chapter 11 restructuring of a global food manufacturer, and related litigation.
• Sirius XM and Pandora in a royalty rate-setting proceeding before the Copyright Royalty Board (Web V).

Dominic received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the Michigan Law Review and worked as a student attorney in the law school’s Human Trafficking Clinic. During law school, Dominic also served as a legal intern in the Legal & Policy Office of the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland. He received his B.A., with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Michigan.