ProfessionalsStan Richards
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Stan Richards is a partner elect in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. His practice focuses on public and private company acquisitions and divestitures, including mergers, stock purchases, asset purchases, and joint ventures across a variety of industries. His practice also includes advising clients on corporate governance and activist defense issues.
EXPERIENCE
Stan’s representations include advising:
- Abbott Laboratories in the sale of its vision care business to Johnson & Johnson
- Agios Pharmaceuticals in the sale of its oncology business to Servier Pharmaceuticals
- American Eagle in its acquisition of Quiet Logistics
- Annaly Capital Management in its acquisition of MTGE Investment
- Assurance in its sale to Prudential Financial
- Bank of N.T. Butterfield in its initial public offering
- Becton, Dickinson in the spin-off of its diabetes care business
- Broadcom in its acquisition of Symantec's enterprise security business; the sale of Symantec's cybersecurity services business to Accenture; and the sale of its Blazemeter platform to Perforce Software
- Cengage Learning in its proposed merger with McGraw-Hill Education
- Chevron Corporation in its acquisition of Hess Corporation
- Cousins Properties in its merger with TIER REIT
- C.R. Bard in its merger with Becton, Dickinson
- Dorian LPG in its response to an unsolicited proposal for all its outstanding common shares and associated proxy contest by BW LPG
- EQT Corporation in its merger with Rice Energy
- FMC in its acquisition of DuPont's crop protection business in exchange for FMC's health and nutrition business and cash
- Lexmark in its sale to a consortium of investors led by Apex Technology and PAG Asia Capital
- PPG Industries in its acquisition of Tikkurila
- Rayonier in its acquisition of Pope Resources
- Revolution Plastics in its sale to Arsenal Capital Partners
- Sealed Air in its acquisition of Liquibox
- Square in the sale of Caviar, its food delivery and pickup services business, to DoorDash
- S&P Global in its merger with IHS Markit
- The Sands family in its agreement with Constellation Brands to eliminate the company’s Class B common stock
- Westrock Coffee in its acquisition of S&D Coffee from Cott Corporation
- 3M in the sale of its food safety business to Neogen Corporation in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction