Representative Clients and Transactions

where I was in charge of all U.S. antitrust clearances, integration counseling for these transactions, and coordination of international filings where relevant:

• Aegon N.V. on its $1.3 billion acquisition of JCPenney’s Direct Marketing Services division.

• Aegon N.V. on its $5.7 billion sale of Transamerica Financial Services to General Electric.

• Aegon N.V. on its $1.4 billion sale of Transamerica Re to Scor SE.

• AGL Industries on its merger with Nicor, Inc. (value undisclosed but post-merger enterprise value of $9.5 billion, resulting in the largest natural gas distribution company in the U.S).

• Allstate on its $1.0 billion acquisition of Esurance from White Mountains Group.

• Allstate on its purchase of GE's Partnership Marketing Group.

• Amer Sports on its $600 million acquisition of Salomon AG from Adidas (skis and snowboards).

• Ameriprise Financial, Inc. on its sale of AMEX Assurance Company to American Express.

• Aviva plc on its $2.9 billion acquisition of AmerUS Holdings. 

• AXA on its $1.8 billion sale of Winterthur’s US property and casualty operations to QBE. 

• Bank of America/Merrill Lynch on the sale of transnational partnership interests.

• Capmark on its $515 million sale from bankruptcy of its mortgage origination and servicing business to Berkadia Commercial Mortgage.

• China National Petroleum Corporation on its $4.18 billion acquisition of PetroKazakhstan.

• Farmers Insurance on its $1.9 billion acquisition of AIG’s personal auto group.

• Fosun International on its $433 million acquisition of Meadowbrook Insurance Group.

• Fosun International on its $2.1 billion acquisition of Ironshore, Inc.

• Fosun International on its $3 billion sale of Ironshore, Inc. to Liberty Mutual.

• General American Mutual Holding Company on its $1.2 billion sale of General American Life to MetLife.

• General Electric Capital Corporation on its acquisition of Shady Hills Power Holdings.

• Genworth Financial on the $290 million sale of its Medicare supplement business to Aetna.

• Gilead Sciences, Inc. on its acquisition of Hot Springs.

• Goldman Sachs Capital Partners on its $1.4 billion acquisition of USI Holding Corporation.

• JP Morgan Chase on the $1.2 billion sale of its life insurance and annuity operations to Protective Life. 

• John Deere on its sale of John Deere Risk Protection, Inc. and John Deere Insurance Company to Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa. 

• Lincoln National on its $7.4 billion merger with Jefferson-Pilot.

• Macquarie Infrastructure Partners on its $3.5 billion acquisition of Puget Energy.

• Markel Corporation on its $135 million acquisition of Aspen Holdings, Inc.

• MetLife, Inc. on its $11.8 billion acquisition of Travelers Life & Annuity from Citigroup.

• MetLife, Inc. on its $16 billion acquisition of American Life Insurance Company (ALICO) from AIG.  

• MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company on its $1.9 billion acquisition of the 16,000 mile Northern Natural Gas Company pipeline system from Dynergy.

• Munich Re on its $352 million acquisition of Sterling Life Insurance Company. 

• Munich Re on its $747 acquisition of Hartford Steam Boiler Group from AIG.

• Munich Re on its $1.3 billion acquisition of The Midland Company.

• Old Mutual plc on its $350 million sale of U.S. life insurance and annuity business to Harbinger Capital.

• Onyx Pharmaceuticals on its $276 million cash + $535 million contingent-payment acquisition of Proteolix.

• QualRisk LLC on various transactions.

• Quanta Services on its $305 million sale of all its telecommunications subsidiaries to Dycom.

• RMS on various transactions.

• Scottish Re on its $1 billion acquisition of ING Re’s individual life reinsurance business.

• Sony Music Entertainment on various acquisition programs.

• Sun Life Financial on its $650 million acquisition of Genworth's employee benefits group business.

• Synergy Health on its $1.9 billion acquisition by Steris (defeated an FTC litigated challenge to the transaction).

• Thoma Bravo on its acquisition of Motus and Runzheimer.

• Tower Group on its acquisition of One Beacon's personal lines insurance business.

• Tower Group on its $490 million acquisition of CastlePoint Holdings, Ltd.

• Union Central on its merger with Ameritas Acacia, and the formation of UNIFI, a mutual life insurance holding company.

• Yan Zhao Global Limited on its $380 million acquisition of Abercrombie & Kent.

• Zenith National on its $1.4 billion sale to Fairfax Financial.

• Zenith National on the $272 million sale of CalFarm Insurance to Nationwide Mutual.