Taylor Morrison Acquires William Lyon Homes in $2.5 Billion Deal

Paul, Weiss advised national homebuilder and developer Taylor Morrison Home Corporation in its cash-and-stock acquisition of William Lyon Homes for approximately $2.5 billion, including assumption of debt. The transaction creates the nation’s fifth-largest homebuilder.

The Paul, Weiss team includes, among others, corporate partners Scott Barshay, John Kennedy, Thomas de la Bastide, Steven Williams, Christopher Cummings, Brian Janson and Manuel Frey and counsel David Epstein, Richard Elliott and Patricia Vaz de Almeida; employee benefits partner Jean McLoughlin and counsel Jarrett Hoffman and Uri Horowitz; litigation partners Geoffrey Chepiga, Aidan Synnott and Jeannie Rhee and counsel Steven Herzog and Peter Jaffe; real estate partner Mitchell Berg; tax partner David Mayo; intellectual property partner Claudine Meredith-Goujon; environmental counsel William O’Brien; and antitrust counsel Marta Kelly.