ProfessionalsPatricia Vaz de Almeida
Tel: +1-212-373-3367
Fax: +1-212-492-0367
pvazdealmeida@paulweiss.com
pvazdealmeida@paulweiss.com
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York,
NY
10019-6064
Fax: +1-212-492-0367
Patricia Vaz de Almeida is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Capital Markets Group. Patricia’s practice focuses on advising clients on public company mergers and acquisitions (including cross-border mergers and acquisitions), as well as securities and capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings, investment grade and high-yield debt offerings and other equity and debt securities transactions. Patricia also regularly advises clients on activist defense, proxy contests, corporate governance and compliance matters, reporting obligations and other corporate matters.
Prior to moving to New York in 2015, Patricia was located in the firm’s London office, where she focused her practice on advising clients in connection with cross-border capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, PIPEs offerings, rights issues, as well as cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including going private transactions.
EXPERIENCE
Patricia’s representations include advising:
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Chevron in its $60 billion acquisition of Hess Corporation; its $7.6 billion acquisition of PDC Energy; its $3.15 billion acquisition of Renewable Energy Group; its $13 billion acquisition of Noble Energy; and its proposed $50 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum
- Inhibrx in the $2.2 billion sale of INBRX-101 to Sanofi and the related spin-off of Inhibrx's non-INBRX-101 business
- AbbVie in its acquisition of Landos Biopharma
- Endeavor Energy Resources in its $26 billion merger with Diamondback Energy
- Restaurant Brands International in its $1 billion acquisition of Carrols Restaurant Group and $1.8 billion acquisition of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
- Chico’s FAS in its $1 billion sale to Sycamore Partners
- Sir Jim Ratcliffe in his acquisition of 25% of Manchester United Football Club
- WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, creating Smurfit WestRock
- World Wrestling Entertainment in its agreement with Endeavor Group Holdings to merge WWE with UFC to form a new publicly listed company, with an enterprise value of $21.4 billion
- Hemisphere Media Group in its take-private sale to a subsidiary of Gato Investments, a portfolio investment of Searchlight Capital Partners, including the company's sale of Pantaya to TelevisaUnivision
- General Motors Co. in its $3.45 billion acquisition of SoftBank Vision Fund’s equity ownership stake and assumption of Softbank’s investment obligation in the autonomous vehicle joint venture Cruise
- American Finance Trust in its $1.3 billion acquisition of 81 multi-tenant retail properties throughout the United States from CIM Real Estate Finance Trust
- The special committee of the board of directors of QADin its $2 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
- Inspire Brands in its $11.3 billion acquisition of Dunkin’ Brands Group, the parent company of Dunkin’ and Baskin-Robbins
- Teladoc Health in its $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo Health
- Driven Brands, a portfolio company of Roark Capital, in its acquisition of International Car Wash Group
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Portola Pharmaceuticals
- General Electric in the $21.4 billion sale of its BioPharma business to Danaher
- The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Pattern Energy Group in its approximately $6.1 billion acquisition by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
- Ingersoll-Rand in the spin-off and $15 billion merger of its Industrial business with Gardner Denver Holdings
- Simon Property Group in its $3.6 billion acquisition of an 80% ownership interest in The Taubman Realty Group Limited Partnership
- Taylor Morrison in its $2.4 billion acquisition of William Lyon Homes
- Mosaic Acquisition Corp. in its merger with Vivint Smart Home to form a publicly listed company with an enterprise value of approximately $4.2 billion
- The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of CBS Corp. in its $40 billion merger with Viacom, to form ViacomCBS
- The Medicines Company in its $9.7 billion sale to Novartis AG
- Barnes & Noble in its sale to an affiliate of Elliott Management
- WaveDivision Capital and Searchlight Capital Partners in their proposed $1.35 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications’ Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana operations.
- The independent directors of Avon in its $3.7 billion sale to Natura & Co.
- Smith & Nephew in its $660 million acquisition of Osiris Therapeutics
- Virtu Financial in its approximately $1 billion acquisition of Investment Technology Group, the $400 million sale of its fixed income trading venue BondPoint to Intercontinental Exchange and its approximately $1.4 billion all-cash acquisition of retail electronic trading firm KCG Holdings
- ILG in its $4.7 billion sale to Marriott Vacations Worldwide
- Qualcomm in the proposed $47 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors
- CSRA in its $9.7 billion sale to General Dynamics
- Bioverativ in its $11.6 billion sale to Sanofi
- Michael Kors Holdings in its acquisition of Jimmy Choo
- ADMA Biologics in its acquisition of certain manufacturing and therapy-related assets from Biotest Pharmaceuticals Corporation
- ARIAD Pharmaceuticals in its $5.2 billion sale to Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.
- Cable & Wireless Communications in its $1.85 billion acquisition of Columbus International
Activist Defense and Proxy Contests
- Starbucks Corporation in its successful proxy contest against the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of labor unions
- Crown Castle in its successful proxy fight against Boots Capital
- McDonald’s in its proxy contest against Carl Icahn
Capital Markets
- Apollo Global Management in numerous securities offerings including its offerings of:
- $750 million senior notes
- $600 million fixed-rate resettable junior subordinated notes
- $1.438 billion convertible preferred stock
- Carnival Corporation in numerous securities offerings, including in:
- its private offering of $500 million senior secured notes and its upsized $1.3 billion senior secured first lien term loan B facility
- $4.3 billion of debt financing transactions, including an offering of $2 billion senior unsecured notes
- $4 billion of debt financing transactions, including offerings of $775 million senior secured notes and €425 million senior secured notes
- its offering of €600 million senior notes
- Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in their $500 million convertible preferred stock investment in Cengage Group
- Clear Secure in its $470 million initial public offering
- Latham Group in its $437 million initial public offering
- Weatherford International in its refinancing of its asset-based lending facility through the issuance of $500 million in senior secured first lien notes and its upsize of its senior secured letter of credit agreement
- Vertiv Holdings in its $301.5 million secondary offering
- Aurum Group in its offering of £265 million senior notes
- Yamana Gold in its offering of $300 million senior notes
- Virtu Financial in its $336 million initial public offering
- The lead underwriters in the $135 million initial public offering of AquaVenture Holdings
- NCR Corporation in its offering of $548 million convertible preferred stock
- Initial public offerings by Brit Insurance, Countrywide, Firstgroup, Game Digital, Non-Standard Finance, Stock Spirits Group, among others, and related listings on the London Stock Exchange