Allison M. Wein, P.C.
Overview
Allison Wein is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Allison focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions and other significant corporate matters. Her experience spans the range of M&A activity, including significant cross-border and contested transactions and activism defense.
Allison was named a “Rising Star” by Law360 in 2020, recognizing her as one of five outstanding merger and acquisition lawyers in the nation under the age of 40. In 2019, she was named an M&A “Rising Star” by The Deal in The Dealmaker Quarterly. Allison has also been recognized for her work in mergers and acquisitions by IFLR1000 and Lawdragon and for her transactional work in the technology industry and the media and entertainment industry by The Legal 500 United States.
Experience
Representative Matters
Prior to and since joining Kirkland, Allison’s notable transactions include the following:
- Kellanova in its pending $35.9 billion sale to Mars
- Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in its $8 billion merger of equals with Cedar Fair
- Haynes International in its approximately $1 billion pending sale to North American Stainless
- Mohari Hospitality in its acquisition of Tao Group Hospitality from Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.
- Waters Corporation in its $1.36 billion acquisition of Wyatt Technology
- Disney in its:
- $85 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox
- Overcoming an interloper bid by Comcast to its original $66 billion agreement
- $10.6 billion sale of the Fox Regional Sports Networks to Sinclair
- $3.47 billion sale of its interest in the YES Network to an investor group including the Yankees and Sinclair
- Agreement with Comcast to assume full operational control of Hulu
- Endemol Shine’s acquisition by Banijay Group
- Sale of FoxNext Games to Scopely
- Sale of a majority stake in Fox TeleColombia & Estudios TeleMexico to ViacomCBS
- ESPN’s strategic partnership with the XFL and the combination of XFL and USFL to create the United Football League
- Occidental Petroleum in its:
- $57 billion acquisition of Anadarko, topping Anadarko’s original agreement with Chevron
- $8.8 billion sale of Anadarko’s African assets to Total
- $10 billion investment by Berkshire Hathaway
- Defense against Carl Icahn’s written consent solicitation of Occidental shareholders and its subsequent nomination agreement with Carl Icahn
- Kellogg Company in the separation of its North American cereal business, resulting in two independent public companies, WK Kellogg Co and Kellanova
- Owens & Minor in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Rotech Healthcare Holdings
- Honeywell International in connection with its $1.325 billion buyout agreement with the North American Refractories Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement Trust
- HanesBrands in its $1.2 billion sale of Champion to Authentic Brands Group
- IBM in acquisitions and dispositions aggregating more than $3 billion in value, including the sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo and the acquisitions of Sentaca, BoxBoat, myInvenio, the business operations of Lighthouse Security Group, Trusteer and UrbanCode
- FactSet Research Systems in its $1.925 billion acquisition of CUSIP Global Services from S&P Global
- Northrop Grumman in its:
- $3.4 billion sale of its federal IT and mission support business to Veritas Capital
- $9.2 billion acquisition of Orbital ATK
- Bharti in the acquisition of, and $1 billion investment in, OneWeb by a consortium led by Bharti and Her Majesty’s Government
- Hasbro in the $385 million sale of Entertainment One Music to Blackstone and its $4 billion acquisition of Entertainment One
- Warner Media in its investment in Quibi, as part of Quibi’s $1 billion initial funding round
- AveXis in its $8.7 billion acquisition by Novartis
- OneBeacon Insurance and White Mountains Insurance in the $1.7 billion sale of OneBeacon Insurance to Intact Financial
- British American Tobacco in its $97 billion merger with Reynolds American
- The Strategic Review Committee of the Board of Directors of Yahoo in the $4.48 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s operating business by Verizon
- Ashland in its $600 million acquisition of Pharmachem
- Time Warner in its investment in Hulu
- White Mountains Insurance in its $2.2 billion sale of Sirius International Insurance to China Minsheng Investment
- Precision Castparts in its $37.2 billion acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway
- Quibi in its sale to Roku
- Amblin Partners in the exit of Participant Media as an equity holder and NBCUniversal’s re-investment, also represented Amblin Partners and Steven Spielberg in the formation of Amblin with Participant Media, Reliance Entertainment and Entertainment One
- Xerox in the $1.05 billion sale of its information technology outsourcing business to Atos
- BDT Capital Partners in its equity investment in Marquette Transportation Company
- Johnson & Johnson in its $1.75 billion acquisition of Alios BioPharma
- AerCap in its $28 billion acquisition of International Lease Finance from AIG
Prior Experience
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
- Partner, 2019–2022
- Associate, 2011–2018
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Recognition
The Dealmaker Quarterly, Rising Star, 2019
IFLR1000, Mergers and Acquisitions – United States, 2019–2024
Law360, Rising Star: Mergers and Acquisitions, 2020
Lawdragon, 500 Leading Dealmakers in America, 2021, 2022 and 2024
The Legal 500 United States
- Media and Entertainment: Transactional, 2020–2021
- Technology Transactions, 2019
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Education
- Northwestern Pritzker School of LawJ.D.cum laude2010Associate Editor, Northwestern University Law Review
- University of PennsylvaniaB.A.magna cum laude2004