Michael A. Treska

Michael's representative transactions include:

• Playtika in its US$2.2 billion IPO
• William Lyon Homes in its US$2.4 billion sale to Taylor Morrison Home Corporation
• Advantage Solutions in its US$5.2 billion business combination with Conyers Park II Acquisition Corp.
• PDL BioPharma in its US$52.8 million divestiture of the Noden Pharmaceutical business to Stanley Capital
• Golden State Foods in its sale of nine distribution centers to The Martin-Brower Company
• Playtika in its acquisition of Seriously Holding Corp.
• Playtika in its acquisition of Wooga, a Germany-based developer of online mobile game applications
• Allergan in the US$53 billion hostile takeover attempt by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International and Pershing Square
• Allergan in its US$73 billion sale to Actavis
• Impact Biomedicines in its US$7 billion acquisition by Celgene Corporation
• Capella Education Company in its US$1.9 billion merger with Strayer Education, Inc.
• NYX Gaming in its US$631 million acquisition by Scientific Gaming
• Caesars Interactive Entertainment in its US$4.4 billion sale of its social and mobile games business, Playtika, to a consortium that includes an affiliate of Chinese online game maker Shanghai Giant Network Technology Co., Ltd.
• Thoratec in its US$3.4 billion acquisition by St. Jude Medical
• 5.11 Tactical in its US$400 million sale to Compass Diversified Holdings
• NextGen in its upsized US$230 million convertible senior notes offering
• QSI in its US$190 million acquisition of Health Fusion Holdings    
• William Lyon Homes in its US$520 million acquisition of Polygon Northwest Homes
• Fox Head in its US$195 million sale to Altamont Capital Partners
• William Lyon Homes in its US$250 million IPO and in several high yield and equity offerings
• Tilly’s in connection with its IPO -Tilly's IPO was listed on Daily Journal's “Top 10 California IPOs of 2012”
• Goldman, Sachs & Co., in the US$7 billion acquisition of Amylin Pharmaceuticals by Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Quest Software in its US$2.4 billion acquisition by Dell
• Beckman Coulter, Inc. in its US$6.8 billion sale to Danaher
• Volcom in its US$600 million sale to PPR S.A.    
• Allergan, Inc. in its acquisition of Vicept Therapeutics
• Caesars Entertainment in its acquisition of a majority interest in Playtika Ltd., an Israeli social game developer
• Beckman Coulter, Inc. in its ¥76 billion acquisition of a Japanese lab based diagnostic system  
• Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. in its US$27.8 billion sale to affiliates of Texas Pacific Group and Apollo Management, L.P.    
• Skilled Healthcare Group in connection with its IPO and its US$200 million senior subordinated notes offering
• Oakley, Inc. in its acquisitions of Oliver Peoples, Inc., Optical Shop of Aspen and Eye Safety Systems, Inc.
• Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. in its acquisition of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. and its issuance of US$3 billion of senior notes