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Recognized among the Top 20 leading M&A advisors in the world by Bloomberg, Factset and Refinitiv, Pillsbury draws upon its significant experience in sophisticated markets to deliver integrated strategic advice and innovative solutions to clients on complex transactions.

Excellence in Global M&A

With more than 150 lawyers advising on mergers & acquisitions globally, Pillsbury has advised clients on some of the most sophisticated and innovative transactions in the market. In the last five years, we have advised on over 800+ M&A transactions totaling $450 billion across a wide range of sectors and geographies. Our lawyers’ depth of experience is why Pillsbury is ranked Tier 1 for M&A by Best Lawyers and recognized for M&A excellence by both Chambers and The Legal 500.

Cutting-Edge Sector Perspective

We offer a 360-degree view of the sectors in which our clients operate to help them effectively navigate transactions. Our M&A team is recognized for its particular strength in technology, financial services, communications and healthcare transactions.

Tailored, Holistic and Transformative Solutions

We invest in understanding and enabling our clients’ business, and offer comprehensive counsel on game-changing U.S. and global M&A transactions. Our M&A team represents leading public and private companies, private equity firms, and investment banks. We also have significant experience representing boards of directors and independent board committees in change of control and going-private transactions, shareholder disputes, and internal corporate investigations.

Innovative and Integrated Teams

We are strategic business partners to our clients and are valued as “company” lawyers. M&A transactions involve many moving parts and demand careful integration. To that end, Pillsbury brings together lauded teams of tax, intellectual property, regulatory, labor and employment, employee benefits, environmental, bank finance, cybersecurity, and antitrust lawyers—and others as needed—to ensure every aspect of a transaction gets the attention needed.

Comprehensive Experience on Complex Global M&A Transactions

By leveraging our global platform, Pillsbury’s M&A lawyers handle the most complex M&A transactions efficiently and effectively. Our team advises clients on a full spectrum of middle-market and billion-dollar M&A transactions, including:

U.S. and cross-border transactions involving public and private companies

Acquisition and disposition of financially distressed assets in and out of bankruptcy

Leveraged buyouts

Divestitures/spinoffs

Change-of-control transactions

Tender offers

Going-private transactions

Privatizations

Joint ventures and strategic alliances

Corporate governance

Our lawyers also advise on a broad spectrum of M&A matters for clients in diverse industries including:

Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services

Communications, telecommunications and media

Consumer and retail

Energy (including renewables)

Financial services

Health care, life sciences and pharmaceuticals

Industrials

Logistics

Manufacturing

Mining, minerals and metals

Real estate and REITs

Technology

Transportation

Utilities

Representative Experience

Some of the mergers and acquisitions our team has been involved with include:

Inphi Corp.’s $10 billion sale to Marvell Technologies
SYNNEX Corporation’s $7.2 billion merger with Tech Data
AT&T’s $1.18 billion sale of its Crunchyroll anime business to Funimation Global Group

The Raine Group LLC in Sprint Corporation’s $59 billion merger with T-Mobile U.S.

Hoya Corporation as a consortium member in connection with Bain Capital’s $17.8 billion acquisition of Toshiba’s Flash Memory Chip Business.

JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. in its $800 million sale of two life sciences subsidiaries to Fujifilm Corp.

NextEra Energy Inc. in its approximately $1 billion acquisition of Trans Bay Cable, LLC

Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. in its $330 million sale to Kaman Corporation

Genomic Health Inc. in its $2.8 billion merger with Exact Sciences Corporation

WestJet Airlines Ltd. in its $3.7 billion sale to Onex Corp.

The Raine Group in its $150 million investment in Foursquare

Foursquare in its acquisition of Placed Inc. from Snap Inc.

Wilbur-Ellis Co. in its acquisition of Nachurs Alpine Solutions Corp.

Atheros Communications Inc. in $3.1 billion sale to Qualcomm Inc.

NTT DATA International in its acquisition of Dell Inc.’s IT services division for $3 billion.

Headwaters Incorporated in its $2.6 billion sale to Boral Limited.

Truven Health Analytics Inc., regarding the government contracts and health care regulations aspects of its $2.6 billion sale to IBM.

Emerson Electric Co. in the $1.4 billion sale of its power transmission business to the Regal Beloit Corporation.

InvenSense Inc. in its $1.3 billion sale to TDK Corp.

Global Cash Access Inc. in transformative $1.2 billion acquisition of Multimedia Games.

inContact Inc. in its $940 million NICE acquisition.

Synnex Corp. in its $800 million acquisition of Westcon-Comstor’s American operations from Datatec Ltd.

PSEG Power LLC, through its wholly-owned subsidiary PSEG Fossil, in its $800 million acquisition of the 755 MW Keys Energy Center project from Genesis Power LLC and an energy-focused private equity fund managed by Ares EIF Management LLC.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. in its $770 million sale to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc.

Pacific Continental Corporation in its $644.1 million sale to Columbia Banking System, Inc.

Viptela Inc. in its $610 million sale to Cisco Systems Inc.

Financial Engines’ in its $600 million acquisition of The Mutual Fund Store from Warburg Pincus.

Bridge Bank and Bridge Capital Holdings, in its $450 million sale to Western Alliance Bancorporation, Phoenix, Ariz.

Concentrix, in its $420 million acquisition of India-based outsourcing firm Minacs.

Cervalis Holdings LLC in its $400 million sale to CyrusOne Inc.

SGT in its $355 million sale to Houston-based KBR.

Business Insider in its $343 million sale to German media company Axel Springer SE.

PLX Technology Inc.’s sale to Avago Technologies Limited for $309 million.

Beijing E-Dragon Semiconductor Industry Investment Center’s in its $285.8 million acquisition of Mattson Technology Inc.

Tilera Corp. in its sale to EZChip Semiconductor for $130 million.

Inphi Corporation in its acquisition of Cortina Systems Inc. for $126 million.

Envivio Inc. in its $125 million sale to Ericsson AB.

Jollibee Foods Corporation in its multi-stage acquisition of Smashburger Master LLC for over $200 million.

SoftBank Group Corp. in its CAD $99 million investment in Nemaska Lithium Inc.

Spin Master Corp. on its $85 million Swimways Corp. acquisition.

STG Group Holding Inc. in its $83 million sale of defense IT contractor STG Inc. to SOS International.

Spin Master Corp. in $79.1 million purchase of GUND plush toy line from Enesco LLC.

Ikanos Communications Inc. in its sale to Qualcomm Atheros Inc. for $47.5 million.

Farmers & Merchants Bancorp in its $40.7 million acquisition of Bank of Rio Vista.

Big Four Accounting Firm in the $37 million purchase of Sonoma Partners LLC assets.

Sentel Corporation in its $36 million sale to Vectrus Inc.

CA Inc. in its $25 million acquisition of SourceClear Inc.

AT&T Inc. in its acquisition of Quickplay Media Inc. from Madison Dearborn Partners.

Practice Area Highlights

Ranked Tier 1 by The Legal 500 U.S. for M&A: Middle-Market ($500M - $999M) (2022-2024).
Best Lawyers awarded Pillsbury a national Tier 2 ranking for Mergers & Acquisitions Law (2024-2025).
Ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA for Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded in California (2023-2024).

M&A Public Deal of the Year - Latin Lawyer Deal of the Year Awards (2023).

Canada M&A Deal of the Year (Mid-Market) - Global M&A Network’s Americas M&A Atlas Awards in 2022.

Americas IT & Services Deal of the Year - Global M&A Network’s Americas M&A Atlas Awards in 2022.

M&A Team of the Year (Large Deal - £1bn or more) - com‘s 13th British Legal Awards 2022.

Energy & Industrials Deal of the Year - The Deal Middle Market Awards 2020.

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