Laura C. Turano is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group and the firm’s corporate hiring partner. Laura’s practice focuses on advising clients in connection with public and private company mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, carve-outs and other significant transactions. She also advises clients on activist defense and corporate governance matters. Laura is a member of the Advisory Counsel of the NYU Law Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance and is an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law teaching mergers & acquisitions.
Laura has been widely recognized by leading industry publications as a top dealmaker. Her accolades include being named a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer, a Law360 “MVP,” a global top ten woman dealmaker by MergerLinks and a finalist in IFLR Europe’s “IFLR Women Dealmakers Hall of Fame” in M&A, as well as one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Dealmakers in America,” Bloomberg Law’s “They've Got Next: 40 Under 40” and Crain's New York Business’ “40 under 40” and “Notable Women in Law.” Laura is also recognized by Chambers and The Legal 500 for her work in Corporate/M&A.
Laura’s notable representations have included:
- 3G Capital in its approximately $9 billion acquisition of Skechers U.S.A. and its $7.1 billion acquisition of Hunter Douglas
- ABB in its $2.6 billion acquisition of General Electric’s Industrial Solutions business
- Ashton Kutcher in his investment in Soho House & Co. in connection with Soho House's $2.7 billion take-private transaction
- AstraZeneca in its $2.7 billion acquisition of ZS Pharma
- Baker Hughes in its proposed $38 billion merger with Halliburton; the formation of its hydraulic-fracturing joint venture with CSL Capital and West Street Energy Partners; its $32 billion merger with GE Oil & Gas and GE’s subsequent sell-down of its majority stake in Baker Hughes; and the formation of its global offshore drilling joint venture with Akastor
- Carrier Global Corporation in its €12 billion acquisition of Viessmann Climate Solutions; its $4.95 billion sale of its global access solutions business to Honeywell; its $3.1 billion sale of its Chubb fire and security business to APi Group Corporation; the $3 billion sale of its commercial and residential fire business to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds; its $1.425 billion sale of its industrial fire business to Sentinel Capital Partners; and the sale of its global commercial refrigeration business to Haier
- Chico’s FAS in its $1 billion sale to Sycamore Partners
- CNOOC in its $17.9 billion acquisition of Nexen
- CompoSecure in the spin-off of its subsidiary Resolute Holdings Management to form a differentiated alternative asset management platform
- CSX in its settlement agreement with Mantle Ridge
- The special committee of Duck Creek Technologies’ board of directors in connection with Duck Creek’s $2.6 billion take-private sale to Vista Equity Partners
- The Estée Lauder Companies in its $2.8 billion acquisition of the Tom Ford brand
- ExxonMobil in its $2.5 billion acquisition of InterOil
- Fernando Chico Pardo and his family in their $2.3 billion acquisition of a 25% equity stake in Grupo Financiero Banamex from Citi
- General Mills in its $1.45 billion acquisition of Whitebridge Pet Brands’ North American premium Cat feeding and Pet treating business from NXMH
- Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division in its acquisition of Boyd Corporation
- IBM in its spin-off of its managed-infrastructure services business into a separate publicly traded company and its $4.6 billion acquisition of Apptio
- IG Group Holdings in its $1 billion acquisition of tastytrade
- Intel Corporation in the activist investment by Third Point
- John Wood Group in its $1.9 billion sale of its Built Environment consulting business to WSP Global
- The Kraft Heinz Company in the exclusive, perpetual extension of its licensing deal with TGI Fridays to make TGI Fridays-branded frozen appetizers for retail sale across North America
- The special committee of the board of directors of Madison Square Garden Entertainment in the spin-off of its traditional live entertainment businesses, to create a new publicly traded company known as Sphere Entertainment Co.
- Merck & Co. in its $11.5 billion acquisition of Acceleron Pharma and its $10.8 billion acquisition of Prometheus Biosciences
- Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance in the $1.3 billion acquisition of Jackson Square Aviation and acquisitions of Engine Lease Finance Corp. and Beacon Intermodal Leasing
- Mizuho Financial Group in its acquisition of Greenhill & Co.
- PharMerica in its approximately $1.4 billion sale to KKR
- PRA Health Sciences in its approximately $12 billion sale to ICON
- Resolute Holdings and its affiliates in their acquisition of a majority interest in CompoSecure and in a transaction to collapse CompoSecure’s Up-C structure
- Restaurant Brands International in its $1 billion acquisition of Firehouse Restaurant Group and its $1 billion acquisition of Carrols Restaurant Group
- Rocket Companies in its $9.4 billion acquisition of Mr. Cooper Group; its $1.75 billion acquisition of Redfin; its $1.275 billion acquisition of Truebill; and a transaction to collapse its Up-C structure and eliminate its high-vote/low-vote structure
- Rodina Capital in its acquisition of Rubicon Technologies’ fleet technology business unit and convertible preferred equity
- Secureworks in its all-cash take-private sale to Sophos
- Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter in connection with a long-term agreement that renews their partnership with D’USSE
- SS&C in its acquisition of Citigroup’s Alternative Investor Services business
- Teladoc Health in its $18.5 billion merger with Livongo Health
- VF Corp. in the sale of the Nautica brand to Authentic Brands Group
- WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, creating Smurfit WestRock
- Williams Partners in the $1.125 billion sale of its Four Corners Area business to Harvest Midstream and the sale of its 50% interest in Jackalope Gas Gathering Services to Crestwood Equity Partners
