Stan Richards is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. His practice focuses on public and private company acquisitions and divestitures, including mergers, stock purchases, asset purchases, and joint ventures across a variety of industries. His practice also includes advising clients on corporate governance and activist defense issues.

Stan’s representations include advising:

3M in the $5.3 billion sale of its food safety business to Neogen Corporation in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction
Abbott Laboratories in the $4.325 billion sale of its vision care business to Johnson & Johnson
Agios Pharmaceuticals in the sale for up to $2 billion of its oncology business to Servier Pharmaceuticals
American Eagle in its acquisition of Quiet Logistics
Annaly Capital Management in its acquisition of MTGE Investment
Assurance in its $2.35 billion sale to Prudential Financial
Bank of N.T. Butterfield in its initial public offering
Becton, Dickinson in the spin-off of its diabetes care business
Broadcom in its $10.7 billion acquisition of Symantec's enterprise security business; the sale of Symantec's cybersecurity services business to Accenture; and the sale of its Blazemeter platform to Perforce Software
Cengage Learning in its proposed merger with McGraw-Hill Education
Chevron Corporation in its $60 billion acquisition of Hess Corporation
Cousins Properties in its merger with TIER REIT, creating a combined company with an equity market capitalization of approximately $5.9 billion
C.R. Bard in its $24 billion merger with Becton, Dickinson
Dorian LPG in its response to an unsolicited proposal for all its outstanding common shares and associated proxy contest by BW LPG
EQT Corporation in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Rice Energy
FMC in its acquisition of DuPont's crop protection business in exchange for FMC's health and nutrition business and $1.2 billion in cash
The Strategic Review Committee of the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications in its $20 billion sale to Verizon Communications
Lexmark in its $3.6 billion sale to a consortium of investors led by Apex Technology and PAG Asia Capital
Maiden Holdings in its combination with Kestrel Group to form a new, publicly listed specialty insurance company
PPG Industries in its €1.1 billion acquisition of Tikkurila
QXO in its $11 billion unsolicited offer to acquire Beacon Roofing Supply
Rayonier in its acquisition of Pope Resources
Revolution Plastics in its sale to Arsenal Capital Partners
S&P Global in its $44 billion acquisition of IHS Markit
The Sands family in its agreement with Constellation Brands to eliminate the company’s Class B common stock
Sealed Air in its $1.15 billion acquisition of Liquibox
SilverCrest Metals in its $1.7 billion sale to Coeur Mining
Square in the sale of Caviar, its food delivery and pickup services business, to DoorDash
Starbucks Corporation in its successful proxy contest defense against the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of labor unions
Westrock Coffee in its acquisition of S&D Coffee from Cott Corporation