Vanessa A. Tarpos

Vanessa Tarpos advises public and private companies, private equity firms and financial institutions on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, corporate governance, joint ventures, SEC reporting obligations and corporate preparedness. Ms. Tarpos regularly counsels companies on issuances of investment-grade and high-yield indebtedness, financing of M&A transactions, negotiation and execution of rights and liquidity transactions for public stakes, and other capital markets-related transactions.

Examples of Ms. Tarpos’ representations include:

• Elon Musk in connection with financing matters related to his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, as well as Twitter in connection with financing matters
• Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte. Ltd. in the latter’s $31 billion offering of notes in eight tranches
• BlackRock, Inc. in connection with financing matters related to its $12.5 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners
• JAB Holding Company and Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. in the latter’s secondary offering of shares of common stock
• Cardinal Health in its offerings of $650 million 5.125% notes due 2029 and $500 million 5.450% notes due 2034
• Affiliated Managers Group in its offering of $400 million 6.750% junior subordinated notes due 2064
• NXP Semiconductors in its offerings of $500 million 4.400% senior notes due 2027 and $1 billion 5.000% senior notes due 2033
• WABCO Holdings Inc. in its $7 billion acquisition by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
• Leidos Holdings, Inc. in its $1.65 billion acquisition of DYHC, Inc., the parent company of Dynetics, Inc.
• CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. in its $665 million sale of certain assets in Kosmos Cement Company, a joint venture, to Eagle Materials Inc.
• HPS Investment Partners LLC in its acquisition of Citadel Servicing Corporation
• Permira Funds in its sale of a majority stake in Teraco Data Environments to Berkshire Partners
• Express Scripts in its $67 billion acquisition by Cigna
• Wenner Media in various transactions and corporate matters, including in Penske Media Corporation’s strategic investment in the company
• Liberty Mutual Group in its sale of Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston to Lincoln Financial Group and the subsequent reinsurance of Liberty’s individual life and annuity business to Protective Life Insurance Company
• Citigroup Inc. in its exclusive long-term (bancassurance) distribution agreement with Chubb Limited for the distribution of non-life insurance products in Mexico
• Pfizer Inc. in its $1 billion sale of Hospira Infusion Systems to ICU Medical, Inc.
• Google, Inc.’s $625 million acquisition of Apigee software company
• Veritas Capital and its portfolio companies in a variety of acquisitions

Ms. Tarpos serves on Skadden’s Recruiting Committee and is actively involved in the firm’s corporate training program.