Ross is a leading advisor to the world’s top companies and private equity sponsors and has secured antitrust, foreign investment and foreign subsidy clearances for over $1 trillion worth of M&A transactions. Ross specializes in securing approvals for complex, high stakes M&A and has supported clients on many of the most high-profile global transactions of recent years. In addition, he also regularly advises companies and investors on global antitrust investigations, behavioral matters, compliance and market investigations.
Ross has been recognized in publications including Who’s Who Legal and Lawdragon and is recommended as an “excellent competition lawyer” by his clients.
Ross's notable representations include:
- Blackstone on its $63 billion joint acquisition together with the Benetton family of Atlantia (the biggest take-private in European history at the time).
- EQT on its $5.6 billion takeover of Dechra PLC (as well as over 100 other deals).
- VEON on its EU Phase 2 approval for the formation of Italy’s largest mobile telecommunications company (including on the subsequent successful litigation before the EU General Court and sale).
- Refinitiv on the 9.8 EU Phase 2 approval for its $9.8 billion acquisition by London Stock Exchange Group.
- IFM Investors and General Infrastructure Partners on their $16.7 billion joint acquisition of Sydney Airport.
- KPS Capital Partners in connection with:
- its €3.615 billion sale of Eviosys to Sonoco Products Company, a South Carolina-based sustainable packaging producer; and
- its approximately €1.7 billion carve-out acquisition of INEOS Composites, a global manufacturer of unsaturated polyester resins, from INEOS Enterprises.
- ZT Systems, a New Jersey-based AI infrastructure provider, in the antitrust aspects of its $4.9 billion stock and cash sale to Advanced Micro Devices, a California-based semiconductor manufacturer.
- Novolex, a South Carolina-based developer and manufacturer of foodservice packaging products, supported by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, its majority shareholder, and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, in its $6.7 billion agreement to combine with Pactiv Evergreen, an Illinois-based manufacturer and distributor of foodservice and merchandizing products.
Other clients Ross has regularly acted for on a range of deals and investigations include Hellman & Friedman, Stonepeak, Stonepoint, Oaktree, Cisco, Seagate, BT Plc, Santander and Standard Chartered.
