EXPERIENCE

Chelsea’s notable representations include:

• Accenture in multiple transactions, including its over $1 billion acquisition of Novetta
• Airgas in its $13.4 billion sale to Air Liquide S.A.
• Capital Bank in its $2.2 billion merger with First Horizon
• Capital One in its acquisitions of GE Capital’s Healthcare Finance Business and Cabela’s credit card program
• CenturyLink in its $34 billion acquisition of Level 3 Communications
• Chicago Bridge & Iron in its $6 billion merger of equals with McDermott International
• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR in their $5.3 billion joint acquisition of Cloudera
• Cvent in its $4.6 billion sale to Blackstone
• Datto in its $6.2 billion sale to Kaseya
• Eli Lilly in its $2.4 billion acquisition of Dice Therapeutics
• Expedia Group in its $1.2 billion private placement of preferred stock and warrants to investment funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management and Silver Lake
• Francisco Partners in its $1.7 billion acquisition of Sumo Logic
• Global Payments in its $45 billion merger of equals with Total System Services
• Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, the Majority Shareholder of Webhelp, in the $4.8 billion combination of Webhelp with Concentrix
• Heartland Payment Systems in its $4.3 billion acquisition by Global Payments
• Hologic in its $1.65 billion acquisition of Cynosure and its subsequent disposition of Cynosure
• Jazz Pharmaceuticals in its $7.2 billion acquisition of GW Pharmaceuticals
• Keysight in its acquisition of Cliosoft
• KKR in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Chase Corporation and its $1.6 billion acquisition of CIRCOR International
• McDonald’s in its sale of McDTech Labs to IBM
• Mondelēz International in its acquisition of Tate’s Bake Shop
• Ping Identity in its $2.8 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
• Private Bancorp in its $5 billion acquisition by CIBC
• Starbucks Corporation in the activist campaign by Elliott Management 
• Sun National Bank in its $475 million acquisition by Ocean First
• Turn/River Capital in its acquisition of Tufin
• United Technologies in its $9 billion sale of Sikorsky Aircraft to Lockheed Martin and in the $1 billion sale of its Taylor Company business to The Middleby Corporation
• Vista Equity Partners in its $2.6 billion acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies, its
  $4.6 billion acquisition of KnowBe4 and its, alongside an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, $16.5 billion acquisition of Citrix Systems
• Warburg Pincus and The Carlyle Group in their acquisition of DBRS Holdings Limited and subsequent sale of DBRS to Morningstar
• Warburg Pincus in its investment in preferred equity of LendingPoint, its acquisition of a majority stake in Kestra a Financial and its acquisition of Petplan
• WestRock in its $2.5 billion spin-off of its Specialty Chemicals business
• The controlling stockholder of World Wrestling Entertainment in the $21 billion merger of WWE and UFC to form a global live sports and entertainment company
• XPO Logistics in its acquisition of Norbert Dentressangle S.A. for €3.24 billion and subsequent acquisition of all shares in XPO Logistics Europe owned by Elliott Capital Advisors and its $3 billion acquisition of Con-way
• ZT Systems in its $4.9 billion sale to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)