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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 $55 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
• Kraft Heinz in its separation into two independent publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off
• 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