Peter P. Jones

Mr. Jones’s representations prior to and since joining Skadden include:

• GIC in its pending $14 billion acquisition of STORE Capital Corporation, alongside Oak Street;
• Adeia Inc. (formerly Xperi Holding Corporation) in the spin-off of its product business into an independent public company called Xperi Inc.;
• Elon Musk in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, Inc.;
• HPS Investment Partners in its investment in Authentic Brands Group at a valuation of $12.7 billion;
• Proofpoint in its $12.3 billion sale to Thoma Bravo; 
• Livongo in its $18.5 billion acquisition by Teladoc Health;
• SK Hynix in its $9 billion acquisition of Intel’s memory business;
• Hg in a number of matters, including:
  • the investment made in Intelerad by TA Associates;
  • its further investment in Lyniate alongside other institutional clients of Hg;
  • its acquisition of Riskalyze, Inc.;
  • its investment in Managed Markets Insight & Technology, LLC; and
  • the sale of Mitratech to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, and on the terms of its continued minority investment in Mitratech;
• F5 Networks in a number of matters, including its:
  • $1 billion acquisition of Shape Security;
  • $440 million acquisition of Volterra; and
  • acquisition of Threat Stack;
• Coherent in its initially announced $5.7 billion sale to Lumentum, followed by Coherent’s subsequent responses to competing acquisition proposals from MKS Instruments, II-VI and Lumentum in a three-party bidding war culminating in Coherent’s $7 billion sale to II-VI;
• Xperi Corporation in its $3 billion merger with TiVo Corporation;
• Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. in its $14.3 billion acquisition by affiliates of Digital Colony Partners and the EQT Infrastructure IV fund, the largest media and communications leveraged buyout since the 2008 financial crisis;
• a sovereign wealth fund on minority investments in various U.S. technology companies;
• Transaction Services Group (TSG) in Calera Capital’s sale of a majority stake in TSG to Advent International Corporation;
• LINE Corporation and its group companies on a number of matters, including:
  • the establishment of a cryptocurrency-focused fund in Hong Kong;
  • the acquisition of all assets comprising the music streaming business MixRadio from Microsoft Corporation;
  • investments into funds in various jurisdictions;
  • minority investments in various jurisdictions; and
  • strategic joint ventures in various jurisdictions;
• JP Morgan as financial advisor to Ellie Mae, Inc. in its $3.7 billion acquisition by Thoma Bravo LLC; 
• The Culture Trip Ltd. on its investment from its founder and funds managed by PPF N.V.;
• ETF Securities Limited on the equity, U.S. and debt financing aspects of the $611 million sale of its European exchange-traded commodity, currency and short-and-leveraged business to WisdomTree Investments, Inc.;
• Montagu Private Equity LLP in its acquisition of Open International;
• a large Asian corporation on a $1 billion joint venture in southeast Asia;
• a large Asian corporation in its acquisition of a leading messaging platform;
• a U.S. hedge fund on its technology joint venture in China;
• LIXIL Corporation in its $3 billion acquisition of GROHE; and
• ORIX Corporation in its €2 billion acquisition of Robeco from Rabobank.