Overview
David Feirstein is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and securities law matters, and corporate governance. He regularly represents public companies, private equity sponsors and private companies in a wide range of matters including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, carve-out transactions, spin-offs and joint ventures. David is recognized in Chambers USA which states, “he is a superstar; he is incredibly smart and very efficient,” and clients “appreciate his ‘extraordinary attention to detail and ability to manage complicated issues and transactions.’” David has also been recognized by Law360, The Legal 500 and Super Lawyers for his corporate/M&A practice.
David also teaches a class as an adjunct professor at NYU Law on negotiating corporate transactions.
Experience
Representative Matters
David has advised clients on numerous significant matters, including the following:
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EQT in its pending $8.8 billion joint venture with Blackstone Credit & Insurance
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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts in its successful defense of a $7.8 billion hostile takeover and full slate proxy contest by Choice Hotels International
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EQT in its $35 billion merger with Equitrans
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Vericast in the sale of its digital and print marketing businesses to R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
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EQT in its $1.25 billion sale of non-operated natural gas assets in Northeast Pennsylvania to Equinor
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Sycamore Partners in its $1 billion acquisition of Chico’s FAS, Inc.
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Daseke, Inc. in its $1.1 billion acquisition by TFI International Inc.
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Rice Acquisition Corp. II in its $1.459 billion combination with NET Power
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Archaea Energy Inc. in its $4.1 billion sale to bp p.l.c.
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EQT in its $5.2 billion acquisition of Tug Hill’s upstream assets and XcL Midstream’s gathering and processing assets
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Celanese in its $11 billion acquisition of the majority of DuPont's Mobility & Materials Business
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Nautic Partners in its $570 million acquisition of Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc.
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Stone Point Capital in its acquisition of ECN Kessler Holdco
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Special Committee of Board of Directors of Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company in its management internalization transaction
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Stone Point Capital in its $2 billion acquisition of Tivity Health
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Vervent in its acquisition of First Equity Card Corporation
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Novo Holdings in its acquisition of Medical Knowledge Group from Court Square Capital and Aisling Capital
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Polestar Performance AB in its $20 billion combination with Gores Guggenheim Inc.
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Home Point Capital in its $324 million sale to Mr. Cooper Group
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Nordic Capital-led consortium in its $7.3 billion acquisition of Inovalon
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Humana Inc. in its acquisition of EliteHealth Medical Practice and certain related businesses
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EQT Infrastructure in its $5.3 billion acquisition of Covanta Holding Corporation
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Bullish in its proposed $9 billion business combination with Far Peak Acquisition Corporation
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Celanese Corporation in its $1.15 billion acquisition of ExxonMobil’s Santoprene TPV elastomers business
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Direct Selling Acquisition Corp. in its $223 million business combination with Hunch Mobility
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Rice Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its $1.15 billion business combination with Aria Energy LLC and Archaea Energy LLC to form Archaea Energy, a publicly-traded renewable natural gas platform
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Stone Point Capital in its $6 billion acquisition of CoreLogic
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Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. in its £1.08 billion sale of The Priory Group to Waterland Private Equity
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Accenture in its acquisition of N3
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Radiology Partners in its $885 million acquisition of MEDNAX Radiology Solutions
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Accenture in the initial public offering of Duck Creek Technologies, Inc.
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Corning Inc. in Hemlock Semiconductor’s acquisition of the trichlorosilane business of DuPont, and concurrent acquisition by Corning of the remaining interest, which it did not already own, in Hemlock
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Accenture in its acquisition of CreativeDrive
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MultiPlan Inc. and its largest shareholder, Hellman & Friedman, in MultiPlan’s $11 billion combination with Churchill Capital Corp III
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Covetrus in its $250 million PIPE investment from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
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HGGC in its $115 million strategic equity investment in Upland Software
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Infineon Technologies AG in its $10.1 billion acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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Cambrex Corporation in its $2.4 billion agreement to be acquired by Permira
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Colfax Corporation in its $1.8 billion sale of its Air and Gas Handling business to KPS Capital Partners
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Wyndham Worldwide in its approximately $1.3 billion sale of its European vacation rental business to Platinum Equity
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Wyndham Worldwide in its $1.95 billion acquisition of La Quinta Inns & Suites’ franchise and management businesses
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Wyndham Worldwide in its separation via spin-off into two separate publicly traded hospitality companies valued at approximately $11 billion, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. and Wyndham Destinations, Inc.
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Marriott Vacations Worldwide in its $4.7 billion acquisition of Interval Leisure Group, Inc. (ILG)
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Varde Partners in its $1.4 billion acquisition of OneMain Financial
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Rice Energy in the successful defense against opposition by JANA Partners to the $6.7 billion acquisition by EQT
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Abbott Laboratories in its $5.3 billion acquisition of Alere
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Celanese Corporation in its proposed joint venture with Blackstone to create a global acetate tow supplier
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New Mountain Capital in its $596 million acquisition of TRC Companies, Inc.
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Fox Corporation in its $397 million acquisition of Credible Labs
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BETA Technologies in its raise of $318 million in Series C equity capital from a consortium led by QIA
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Micro Focus International plc in its $8.8 billion “Reverse Morris Trust” acquisition of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company’s software business
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Celator Pharmaceuticals in its $1.5 billion sale to Jazz Pharmaceuticals
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Accenture in its joint venture with Apax Partners from the carve out of Accenture’s Duck Creek Technologies insurance claims, billing and policy administration software business
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Nexstar Broadcasting Group in connection with its $4.6 billion acquisition of Media General, ending a six-month public takeover battle during which Nexstar jumped Media General’s previously announced transaction with Meredith Corp.
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Accenture in its $830 million carve-out sale of Navitaire to Amadeus IT Holding SA
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IGATE Corporation in its $4 billion sale to Cap Gemini
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Burger King Worldwide Inc. in its $13.3 billion merger transaction with Tim Hortons Inc.
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Infineon Technologies AG in its $3 billion acquisition of International Rectifier Corporation
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Lazard as financial advisor to Reynolds American in its $27.4 billion acquisition of Lorillard
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Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $725 million (including milestone payments) acquisition of iPierian, a privately-held biotech company
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Beechcraft in its $1.4 billion sale of the company to Textron Inc.
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rue21, inc. in the $1.1 billion sale of the company to Apax Partners
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3G Capital Partners Ltd. in its $28.0 billion acquisition, along with Berkshire Hathaway Inc., of H. J. Heinz Company
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Clearwire Corporation in Sprint’s acquisition of the stake in Clearwire which Sprint did not already own, implying a $14 billion enterprise value for Sprint and the unsolicited competing offer for Clearwire by DISH Networks
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Danaher Corporation in its $338 million acquisition of IRIS International, Inc.
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GeoEye in its merger with DigitalGlobe
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Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $7 billion acquisition of Amylin Pharmaceuticals and joint collaboration with AstraZeneca plc
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Burger King Worldwide Holdings, Inc. and its controlling stockholder, 3G Capital Partners Ltd., in connection with a business combination with Justice Holdings Ltd., a London Stock Exchange-listed public investment vehicle, resulting in a partial sale of Burger King to the Justice shareholders for $1.4 billion and a New York Stock Exchange listing of Burger King
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Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Inhibitex, Inc.
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Colgate-Palmolive Company in its €672 million acquisition of Sanex Brands from Unilever and related $210 million disposition of Colgate’s Colombian detergents business
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Mirant Corporation in its $3.1 billion merger of equals with RRI Energy, Inc.
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PVH in its $3 billion acquisition of Tommy Hilfiger
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MetLife in the recapitalization and split-off of its less than wholly owned subsidiary, RGA
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Apollo in its $16 billion buyout of Harrah’s with TPG
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Iscar in its $4 billion acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway
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ConocoPhillips in its multi-billion dollar oil sands joint venture with EnCana
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ConocoPhillips in its $35 billion acquisition of Burlington Resources
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EQT in its exchange agreement with Equinor USA Onshore Properties
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Altaris in its $540 million acquisition of Sharecare
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Altaris in its $316 million acquisition of Trean Insurance Group
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Altaris in its pending acquisition of Minaris Regenerative Medicine
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Thought Leadership
Seminars
Moderator, “The Race to Decarbonize the Grid,” Energy Infrastructure Council Investor Conference, May 2023
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Education
- New York University School of LawJ.D.magna cum laude
Order of the Coif
Founding Board Member and Projects Editor, NYU Journal of Law and Business
- University of PennsylvaniaB.A., Political Science