Scott A. Barshay

Scott A. Barshay's representative experience includes advising:

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Chevron in its $55 billion acquisition of Hess Corporation
• General Electric in the $30 billion combination of its jet leasing unit, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), with AerCap Holdings
• IBM in its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat
• 3G Capital in its $9 billion acquisition of Skechers U.S.A.

Corporate Governance and Activism Defense

• ADP in its successful proxy contest against Pershing Square Capital Management
• Honeywell International in the activist campaign by Third Point
• Avon in the activist campaign by Barington Capital
• Qualcomm in the activist campaign by JANA Partners

Healthcare and Life Sciences

• Alere in its $5.3 billion sale to Abbott Laboratories
• Biogen in the $5 billion spin-off of its global hemophilia business into a separate publicly traded company (Bioverativ)
• Nuance Communications in its $19.7 billion sale to Microsoft
• Mylan in its successful defense against a $40 billion hostile takeover offer from Teva

Technology and Telecommunications

• Qualcomm in its successful defense against a $142 billion hostile takeover offer from Broadcom
• Crown Castle in the $8.5 billion sale of its small cells business to EQT Active Core Infrastructure fund
• Xerox in the spin-off of its services business into a separate publicly traded company (Conduent)