Additionally, Ms. Cohen advises on a broad range of corporate and securities matters, including corporate governance, disclosure issues and integration matters as well as defensive measures and takeover tactics.

Recent Experience

• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. in its up to $740 million sale of Avera Semiconductor LLC and its $430 million sale of a semiconductor fabrication plant to ON Semiconductor Corporation
• Willis Towers Watson PLC in its pending up to $1.4 billion acquisition of TRANZACT
• Atos S.E. in its $3.57 billion acquisition of Syntel, Inc.
• Avista Healthcare Public Acquisition Corp. in its acquisition of Organogenesis Inc. and its proposed merger with Envigo International Holdings, Inc.
• Doncasters Group Limited in its $440 million sale of Nelson Fasteners Systems
• General Electric Company in its $2.6 billion sale of GE Industrial Solutions
• Discovery, Inc. in its joint venture with Magnolia, the home and lifestyle brand led by Chip and Joanna Gaines
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board in, together with Apollo Global Management, the acquisition of a controlling interest in CareerBuilder, LLC
• York Capital Management, Valinor Management and Halcyon Capital Management, principal equity owners of NextDecade, LLC, in the $1 billion reverse merger of NextDecade with SPAC Harmony Merger Corp.
• HNA Group Co. Ltd. in its $6.5 billion acquisition of a 25% stake in Hilton Inc., Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. and Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. (collectively, f/k/a Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.) from affiliates of The Blackstone Group
• The Kroger Company in its strategic partnership with, and investment in, Lucky’s Market
• IHS Inc. in its $13 billion merger of equals with Markit Limited
• General Electric Company and Synchrony Financial in connection with the separation and initial public offering of Synchrony Financial (GE Capital’s North American retail finance business) and in GE’s $20.4 billion offer to exchange Synchrony common stock for GE common stock, completing the separation of Synchrony from GE
• Brookfield Asset Management Inc. in its approximately $855 million acquisition of GrafTech International Ltd.
• Atos S.E. in its $1.1 billion acquisition of the information technology outsourcing business of Xerox Corporation
• Sanofi in connection with its $20.1 billion acquisition of U.S. biotechnology firm Genzyme Corp.
• NBC Universal and parent General Electric in GE’s $37.25 billion joint venture with Comcast for ownership of NBC Universal and Comcast’s cable channels and regional sports networks and, thereafter, GE in the $18.1 billion sale of its remaining 49 percent stake in NBCUniversal and related real estate to Comcast
• DIRECTV in its $28.5 billion stock-for-stock merger with Liberty Entertainment

Ms. Cohen is recognized as a “Rising Star” for M&A in the U.S. by IFLR1000 and is also recommended for M&A by Legal 500 US, where clients note she is “‘the deal maker’ ‘calm and discreet but energetic and pragmatic.’” She was selected as one of The M&A Advisor’s 2012 “40 Under 40” honorees, an award that recognizes attorneys under the age of 40 for their accomplishments and expertise in the M&A field. Ms. Cohen is a member of the Board of Directors of the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Metro New York.