ProfessionalsDavid Harris
Tel: +1-212-373-3182
Fax: +1-212-492-0182
dharris@paulweiss.com
dharris@paulweiss.com
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York,
NY
10019-6064
Fax: +1-212-492-0182
David Harris is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group and Private Equity Group. He focuses his practice on a wide range of corporate matters, which include representing clients on domestic and cross boarder public M&A transactions, private equity and venture capital investments, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, carve-outs and spin-out transactions, restructurings, as well as general corporate, board and special committee representations. In addition, David also has experience in acquisitions and dispositions of asset management and other financial services firms and he has advised both activists/shareholders and targets in connection with a variety of activist-related matters.
EXPERIENCE
David’s recent representations include:
- ADMA Biologics in its acquisition of certain key manufacturing and therapy-related assets from Biotest Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Biotest AG; and ADMA Biologics in the Board’s further consideration of strategic alternatives
- Altimar Acquisition Corporation in its combination with Owl Rock Capital Group and Dyal Capital Partners to form Blue Owl Capital; and Altimar Acquisition Corporation II in its $1.5 billion combination with Fathom Digital Manufacturing Corporation
- American Tower Corporation in multiple acquisitions, including its $1.85 billion acquisition of Eaton Towers Holdings Limited, and its $523 million acquisition of joint venture stakes in Ghana and Uganda from MTN Group Limited
- Angelo Gordon in its $2.7 billion sale to TPG to form TPG Angelo Gordon
- Automatic Data Processing in its $5 billion spin-off of CDK Global; and Automatic Data Processing in its spin-off of Broadridge Financing Services
- Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of Cyxtera, in connection with its Chapter 11 case; and Cyxtera’s subsequent combination with Evoque Data Center Solutions
- Chico’s FAS in its successful proxy contest against Barington Capital
- Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co. in its acquisition of Sepracor
- An ad hoc group of holders of securities issued by Exide Technologies in a credit bid asset sale of the company’s international operations in more than 80 countries as part of the company’s chapter 11 liquidation
- Fortress Investment Group in its acquisition of an asset management business
- Grain Management in its sale of wireless towers and assets to American Tower Corp.
- Harbinger Capital Partners:
- and related funds in the private placement of common shares of its publicly traded corporation, Harbinger Group, to Leucadia National Corporation and other funds
- in its $253 million sale of preferred securities to Leucadia National Corporation
- in its proxy contests with NY Times and Media General
- Lehigh Hanson, the U.S. affiliate of HeidelbergCement, in its acquisition of Corliss Resources
- Hero Digital, a portfolio company of CI Capital Partners, in its acquisition of Delphic Digital
- Imperial Sugar Company in its sale to Louis Dreyfus Commodities
- Kohlberg & Company:
- in its acquisition of Sabre Industries
- in its sale of its portfolio company, Thomas Nelson, to HarperCollins Publishers
- in its acquisition of Kellermeyer Building Services
- KPS in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of United Copper Industries, an affiliate of Organización IUSA, S.A. de C.V.
- LS Power in its sale of domestic power plants
- Millicom International Cellular S.A.:
- in its sale by its subsidiaries in Ghana, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo of their respective portfolios of communications towers to Helios Tower Tanzania
- in its sale of its portfolio of communications towers in Colombia to American Tower Corporation
- in its reorganization of its holdings in a joint venture with American Tower Corporation formed to hold Millicom’s communications towers in Colombia, and the subsequent sale of Millicom’s holdings in such joint venture to American Tower Corporation
- The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Perry Ellis International in the approximately $437 million acquisition of all of the outstanding common shares of Perry Ellis, not already beneficially owned by the Feldenkreis family, by a newly formed entity controlled by George Feldenkreis
- QualTek Services Holding in its restructuring and divestiture of assets
- Quantum Strategic Partners, a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management, in its $442 million sale of Zenium Data Centers to CyrusOne; and Zenium Holdings Limited, a portfolio company of Quantum Strategic Partners, in its $93 million sale of Zenium’s data center business in Turkey to an affiliate of Equinix
- Ryze Renewables in its Chapter 11 cases in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, including a court-supervised 363 asset sale process
- Sixth Street Capital Partners in the restructurings of LATAM Airlines and Cineworld
- TowerCo:
- in its purchase of telecommunications towers from Sprint
- in its purchase of telecommunications towers from i Wireless
- in its establishment of a marketing arrangement with C-Spire
- Walter Energy in its proxy contest with Audley Capital
- Wilton Brands:
- in its sale to Dr. August Oetker KG
- in the sale of Simplicity Creative Group
- Yahoo, a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, in its 30-year exclusive commercial agreement with Taboola
- Zagat Survey in its sale to Google