Marc R. Packer focuses on corporate and securities law matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. His practice encompasses both U.S. and cross-border transactions, including mergers, tender and exchange offers, stock and asset sales, restructurings, joint ventures, spin-offs and proxy contests, as well as advice to corporate boards of directors regarding their fiduciary obligations, corporate governance and strategic matters. Mr. Packer also represents clients in connection with private equity investments and securities offerings, both in the United States and internationally. Mr. Packer has advised acquirors, target companies, special committees of boards of directors, financial advisors and underwriters. His clients have included companies in the technology, software, communications, energy, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, real estate, mining and financial services sectors.

Mr. Packer’s recent transactions include the representation of:

• Castle Harlan, Inc. in its acquisition of IDQ Holdings, Inc. from Arsenal Capital Partners;

• Yahoo! Inc. in various matters, including: its response to an unsolicited acquisition proposal by Microsoft Corporation and a proxy contest by Carl Icahn; its acquisition of Musicmatch, Inc.; and its strategic partnership in Australia and New Zealand with Seven Networks Limited;

• The National Hockey League in its purchase of the Phoenix Coyotes hockey club under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code;

• Meridian Gold Inc. in its response to an unsolicited exchange offer by Yamana Gold Inc. and its subsequent acquisition by Yamana in a three-way combination with Northern Orion Resources Inc.;

• ClearLight Partners LLC in its acquisition of Gold Canyon Mining and Construction, LLC from American Asphalt & Grading Company and its acquisition of Switchcraft Holdings Inc.;

• Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation in the sale of its military and commercial flight simulation business to Rockwell Collins, Inc.;

• ASML Holding N.V. in its acquisition of Brion Technologies, Inc. and the sale of its thermal business unit to a privately held company formed by VantagePoint Venture Partners;

• The Sage Group plc in various acquisitions, including Emdeon Practice Service, Inc., Verus Financial Management, Inc., Timberline Software Corporation, ACCPAC International, Inc. and Interact Commerce Corporation;

• EMCORE Corporation in its acquisition of K2 Optronics, Inc. and the sale of its 49 percent interest in GELcore, LLC to General Electric Company;

• Louis Dreyfus Energy Holdings Ltd. in the sale of an oil refinery in Wilhelmshaven, Germany and Louis Dreyfus Refining and Marketing Limited to ConocoPhillips;

• Business Objects S.A. in its acquisition of Crystal Decisions, Inc.;

• Inktomi Corporation in its acquisition by Yahoo! Inc., as well as the sale of Inktomi’s enterprise search software business to Verity, Inc.;

• Exodus Communications, Inc., as debtor-in-possession in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, in the sale of substantially all of its assets to a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless plc;

• STEAG Electronic Systems AG in the sale of its semiconductor manufacturing equipment business to Mattson Technology, Inc. in a transaction that included the simultaneous merger of CFM Technologies, Inc. with Mattson; and

• Burnham Pacific Properties, Inc. in various aspects of its plan of liquidation, including its transfer of assets to a liquidating trust and its sale of certain properties to Developers Diversified Realty Corporation.

Mr. Packer also has represented financial advisors in various significant M&A transactions, including Sykes Enterprises, Incorporated’s acquisition of ICT Group, Inc; Kimco Realty Corporation’s acquisition of Pan Pacific Retail Properties, Inc.; Lawson Software, Inc.’s acquisition of Intentia International AB; and Autonomy Corporation plc’s acquisition of Virage, Inc.

Mr. Packer relocated back to Skadden’s New York office, where he started his career with the firm, in September 2008. Prior to that he was based in the Palo Alto office. He also worked in the London office, where he was part of the firm’s European emerging markets practice and had responsibility for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.