Justin M. Top

Justin Top advises public and private companies, private equity firms and portfolio companies on U.S. and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, strategic investments, securities offerings and other corporate matters.

Notable representations include:

• Honeywell in its pending $4.95 billion acquisition of the global access solutions business of Carrier Global Corporation
• Brookfield Infrastructure in its $13.3 billion take-private of Triton International Limited
• TOM FORD in its acquisition by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. at an enterprise value of $2.8 billion
• Mayne Pharma Group Limited in its $475 million sale of Metrics Contract Services to Catalent, Inc.
• vTv Therapeutics in an investment into the company by, and collaboration and license agreement with, affiliates of G42 Healthcare
• Permira Funds and its portfolio companies in several transactions, including:
  • the sale of its portfolio company LSNE to PCI Pharma Services
  • the acquisition of OMNI Orthopaedics Inc.
• The Blackstone Group in its sales of:
  • Exeter Finance to an investor group led by Warburg Pincus
  • Stearns Lending to Guaranteed Rate, Inc.
• Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. II in its $2.5 billion business combination with ATI Physical Therapy
• Funds advised by Apax Partners in their sale of ECI Software Solutions to affiliates of Leonard Green & Partners
• Greentech Capital Advisors in its sale to Nomura Holdings, Inc.
• OFG Bancorp in its $550 million acquisition of Scotiabank’s Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands banking operations
• Highbridge Capital Management in its acquisition of assets from Pernix Therapeutics, which was structured as a Chapter 11 credit bid
• WABCO Holdings Inc. in its $7 billion acquisition by ZF Friedrichshafen AG