Catherine Yuh

Catherine Yuh advises public and private companies and private equity firms on a broad variety of U.S. and cross-border transactions and corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, investments, reorganizations, partnerships and other complex strategic transactions. She has represented clients spanning a diverse range of industries.

Examples of Ms. Yuh’s representations include:

• Sierra Wireless, Inc., a communications equipment company, in its $1.2 billion public sale to Semtech Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturer
• Purdue Pharma L.P. in the sales of its (i) consumer health business to Atlantis Consumer Healthcare for $400 million via an auction process pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code and (ii) active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing facility, as well as the corresponding negotiation of a long-term API supply agreement
• Leerink Partners in the management buyout of Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group’s investment banking business, SVB Securities, backed by funds managed by the Baupost Group
• Faerch Group, a Danish food packaging manufacturer, and its German parent A.P. Møller Holding, in their €1.1 billion acquisition of PACCOR Group from U.S. private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg
• View, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based smart glass company, in its $1.6 billion merger with special purpose acquisition company CF Finance Acquisition Corp. II
• Castle Harlan, Inc. in the $550 million sale of its portfolio company Tensar Corporation, a global geogrid manufacturer, to Commercial Metals Company
• Kelso & Company in the sale of its portfolio company Physicians Endoscopy, the leading owner of endoscopic surgery centers in the U.S., to UnitedHealth Group
• Hg Capital in its $1 billion investment for shared joint control of Insight Software, alongside TA Associates
• Orum Therapeutics, Inc. in the sale of its ORM-6151 leukemia antibody treatment program to Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Crane NXT, Co. and Crane Company, providers of highly engineered industrial products, in the (i) restructuring of their holding company and (ii) separation of Crane NXT, Co. into two independent, publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off
• Cannae Holdings, Inc. in its strategic partnership with, and cross-equity investment in, activist investor JANA Partners
• Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the $9.5 billion construction of New Terminal One as part of the $15 billion redevelopment plan for John F. Kennedy International Airport
• OceanSound Partners and its portfolio company Lynx Software Technologies in connection with various software acquisitions
• a Singaporean e-commerce and digital entertainment company in its acquisition of a South Korean e-commerce company

Ms. Yuh is actively involved in Skadden’s training, mentoring and recruiting programs. She serves on the Steering Committee for the firm’s Global Asian Pacific Islander Affinity Network and regularly provides pro bono legal services to nonprofit community-based organizations.