Marissa A. Smith

Ms. Smith regularly advises private and public clients in a variety of U.S. and cross-border corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, auctions, carveouts, unsolicited proposals and joint ventures.

Examples of Ms. Smith’s representations include, among others:

• Amadeus IT Group SA in its acquisition of Navitaire LLC;
• CoreLogic, Inc. in its:
  • $6 billion acquisition by funds managed by Stone Point Capital and Insight Partners; and
  • prior proxy fight with Senator Investment Group and Cannae Holdings;
• Correvio Pharma Corp. in its acquisition by Advanz Pharma Corp. Limited;
• CPI International, Inc. in various transactions, including its:
  • acquisition of ASC Signal Holdings Corporation; and
  • acquisition of TMD Holdings Limited;
• Crane Co. in various transactions, including its holding company restructuring;
• Fortress Investment Group LLC in various transactions, including its disposition of TRAC Intermodal;
• HeidelbergCement AG in its acquisition of a minority stake in Command Alkon;
• Husky’s shareholders in relation to Husky’s combination with Cenovus Energy Inc. in an all-stock transaction;
• MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated in various corporate matters;
• Mars, Incorporated in numerous transactions and corporate matters, including its:
  • acquisition of VCA;
  • acquisition of Pet Partners;
  • acquisition of BluePearl Veterinary;
  • acquisition of NomNomNow; and
  • disposition of its private label pet food business;
• Norwest Equity Partners in its acquisition of West Star Aviation;
• Veritas Capital and certain of its portfolio companies in various transactions and corporate matters, including:
  • Veritas’ disposition to Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC of CPI International, Inc.;
  • the acquisition by OnSolve, LLC, a Veritas portfolio company, of Stabilitas Intelligence Communications, Inc.; and
  • the acquisition by Peraton Corp., a Veritas portfolio company, of Solers, Inc.; and
• Yahoo! Inc. in its $4.5 billion sale of its operating business to Verizon Communications Inc. and subsequent registration as an investment company.