Rachel Shapiro

Rachel has been part of the teams advising:

• A major financial institution as financial advisor to Frutarom Industries Ltd. in its $7.1 billion sale to International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
• American Securities in its acquisition of certain assets and liabilities related to the engineering, procurement and construction division of Swinerton Builders and Swinerton Renewable Energy (collectively n/k/a SOLV Energy LLC)
• Avolon Holdings Limited (a portfolio company of Cinven Partners, CVC Capital Partners and Oak Hill Capital Partners) in its $7.6 billion sale to Bohai Leasing Co., Ltd. (n/k/a Bohai Financial Investment Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and Brookfield Property Partners LP (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.)
• Cannae Holdings, Inc. in its creation of an external management structure and entry into a management services agreement with Trasimene Capital Management, LLC
• Centerbridge Partners in its $1.2 billion acquisition of IPC Systems, Inc.
• DIRECTV in its $67.1 billion sale to AT&T
• Elementis Global LLC in its $360 million acquisition of SummitReheis (f/k/a Summit Research Labs)
• Eli Lilly and Company in its $5.4 billion acquisition of the animal health business of Novartis AG
• Eli Lilly and Company in the $1.7 billion initial public offering of its subsidiary Elanco Animal Health Incorporated
• Eli Lilly and Company in its $8.2 billion exchange of its approximately 82% remaining interest in Elanco Animal Health Incorporated for Lilly common shares held by its shareholders
• Evercore as financial advisor to FairPoint Communications, Inc. in its approximately $1.5 billion all-stock merger with Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc.
• Evercore as financial advisor to CenturyLink, Inc. in its $34 billion acquisition of Level 3 Communications Inc.
• Exide Holdings, Inc. in its $179 million sale of substantially all of its Americas operations to Atlas Holdings LLC, in connection with its chapter 11 proceedings
• General Electric Company in its strategic plan to sell most of GE Capital’s assets
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. in its acquisition of the global commercial semiconductor technology business of International Business Machines Corporation, including intellectual property, technologists and technologies related to IBM Microelectronics
• Guggenheim Securities as financial advisor to Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. in its $10.6 billion acquisition of 21 Regional Sports Networks and Fox College Sports from The Walt Disney Company
• Irving Place Capital Management and Agiliti Holdco, Inc. (f/k/a Universal Hospital Services, Inc.) in Agliti’s combination with Federal Street Acquisition Corp. (FSAC), a SPAC sponsored by Thomas H. Lee Partners, in a new holding company formed by FSAC named Agiliti Health, Inc. (n/k/a Agiliti, Inc.), having an implied enterprise value of approximately $1.74 billion
• J.P. Morgan Securities and Evercore, as financial advisors to Equinix, Inc. in its $3.6 billion acquisition of a portfolio of 24 data center sites and their operations from Verizon Communications Inc.
• Magellan Health, Inc. in its $2.2 billion merger with Centene Corporation
• MGM Resorts International in its $450 million sale of the operations of Gold Strike Casino Resort in Tunica, Mississippi to CNE (a subsidiary of Cherokee Nation Businesses)
• Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC sponsored by Mudrick Capital, in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Hycroft Mining Corporation, with an initial enterprise value of approximately $537 million
• Sculptor Capital Management Inc. in its sale to Rithm Capital Corp.
• Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC (a portfolio company of Brookfield Business Partners) in its pending acquisition of BHI Energy
• Willis Towers Watson PLC in its $1.3 billion acquisition of TRANZACT

Rachel received her J.D., cum laude, from University of Michigan Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review, and her B.A., with distinction, from Amherst College.