Jamie Lassiter
Counsel, Tax
Jamie Lassiter represents domestic and international corporate and private equity clients in connection with tax-related aspects of transactional matters, including taxable and tax-free mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures.
Bio
In recognition of Mr. Lassiter’s work, he has been named one of Best Lawyers’ Ones To Watch in America.
His experience includes representing:
- Devon Energy in its $58 billion acquisition of Coterra Energy
- Netflix in its proposed (but terminated) $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
- Axcelis Technologies in its pending $4.4 billion merger with Veeco Instruments
- Stanley Black & Decker in its $1.8 billion sale of Consolidated Aerospace Manufacturing to Howmet Aerospace
- Honeywell in its $7.7 billion spin-off of Solstice Advanced Materials Inc.
- Hailey Bieber’s HRBeauty LLC (d/b/a rhode) in its $1 billion acquisition by e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.
- Vimeo, Inc. in its acquisition by Bending Spoons in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.38 billion
- Dover Corporation in the $2 billion sale of Environmental Solutions Group to Terex Corporation
- Western Digital Corporation in its spin-off of Sandisk Corporation
- Air Lease Corporation in its $28.2 billion acquisition by investors including Sumitomo Corporation, SMBC Aviation Capital, Apollo and Brookfield
- Juniper Networks, Inc. in its $14 billion acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Ecolab in the tax-free spin-off of its upstream energy business and its $4.4 billion combination with Apergy in a reverse Morris Trust transaction
- Fortive Corporation in its $3 billion tax-free spin-off of four operating companies from its Automation & Specialty platform to Altra Industrial Motion Corp. in a reverse Morris Trust transaction
- Funds managed by The Blackstone Group Inc. and Exeter Finance LLC in Exeter’s sale to an investor group led by Warburg Pincus LLC
- Centene Corporation in its:
- $17.3 billion merger with WellCare Health Plans, Inc.
- $2.2 billion acquisition of Magellan Health
- acquisition of PANTHERx Rare, LLC
- acquisition of Apixio, Inc.
- Southwestern Energy in its:
- $1.9 billion acquisition of GEP Haynesville, LLC
- $2.7 billion acquisition of Indigo Natural Resources, LLC
- $849 million acquisition of Montage Resources
- NXP Semiconductors N.V. in its $1.76 billion acquisition of Marvell Technology Group Ltd.’s wireless connectivity portfolio
Credentials
Education
- J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2017
- B.A., Georgetown University, 2012
Admissions
- California
- New York
- Texas
Jamie Lassiter
Counsel, Tax
jamie.lassiter@skadden.com