Andrew Elken

andrew.elken@lw.com

+1.212.906.1205

Profile

Andrew Elken, Global Vice Chair of the Public Company & Board Representation Practice, is a corporate partner in New York focused primarily on complex mergers and acquisitions. Andrew also regularly advises officers and boards of directors on activist defense matters, corporate governance, securities law, and other significant corporate matters.

Andrew leverages experience advising on over US$300 billion of M&A transactions across a broad range of industries, including technology, media, telecommunications, energy, infrastructure, transportation, consumer products, industrials, healthcare, life sciences, and financial services.

Recognized as one of the 500 Leading Dealmakers in America by Lawdragon, a Top Dealmaker by The Hollywood Reporter and a Rising Star by the New York Law Journal, Andrew has represented public companies and boards of directors in many of their most complicated and high-stakes corporate transactions.

Andrew regularly advises clients on:

Buy-side and sell-side public company M&A, both negotiated and hostile
Divestitures and spin-offs
Joint ventures
Cross-border transactions
Special committee matters
Activist defense, including settlement agreements and proxy contests
Corporate governance, securities law, and other general corporate matters

He also regularly represents top investment banks in their capacity as financial advisors in M&A transactions.

Before joining Latham, Andrew was a partner at another leading global law firm.

Experience

Andrew’s recent M&A experience includes advising:

Amazon on its:
- US$8.45 billion acquisition of MGM Studios*
- Investment in Diamond Sports Group
- Investment in Saks Global in connection with the pending US$2.65 billion acquisition of Neiman Marcus Group, parent company of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, by HBC, parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue
Amphenol on its US$2.1 billion acquisition of CommScope’s Outdoor Wireless Networks (OWN) business and Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) business
Atlas Air Worldwide on its US$5.2 billion acquisition by an Apollo-led investor group*
Centrica on its US$3.625 billion divestiture of its North American energy supply, services, and trading business (Direct Energy) to NRG Energy*
CyrusOne on its US$15 billion acquisition by KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners*
Daily Mail and General Trust on the £1.425 billion divestiture of its global risk insurance modeling and analytics business (RMS) to Moody’s*
Deutsche Telekom on its master framework agreement with SoftBank and T-Mobile, realigning T-Mobile’s ownership and governance*
DTE Energy on the US$7 billion spin-off of its midstream business (DT Midstream)*
Evergy on its agreements with Elliott Management and Bluescape Energy Partners*
GasLog on:
- Its take-private transaction with BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund*
- Acquiring GasLog Partners*
GlobalFoundries on its acquisition of Tagore Technology’s gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor power management business
Healthpeak Properties on its US$21 billion stock-for-stock merger with Physicians Realty Trust
IsoPlexis on its stock-for-stock merger with Berkeley Lights*
Light & Wonder on its acquisition of SciPlay’s remaining publicly held shares*
Marubeni Growth Capital US on its acquisition of RG Barry Brands
Peabody Energy on its proposed joint venture with Arch Resources*
PG&E on corporate governance matters, securities matters, its chapter 11 reorganization, and other strategic matters*
Rogers Communications on its C$26 billion acquisition of Shaw Communications*
Tabula Rasa HealthCare on its US$570 million take private acquisition by Nautic Partners*
The entities selling substantially all of the assets of The Weinstein Company through a Section 363 auction to affiliates of Lantern Asset Management and Spyglass Media Group for US$289 million in cash, plus the assumption of up to US$127.5 million in liabilities*
WestRock on its:
- US$4.9 billion acquisition of KapStone*
- US$2.28 billion acquisition of Multi Packaging Solutions*
World Fuel Services on the US$350 million sale of its Multi Service payment solutions business to Corsair Capital*