Yuni Yan Sobel is a partner in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Department and a member of the firm’s Antitrust and Mergers & Acquisition Groups. She counsels clients on antitrust issues arising in U.S. and global transactions. Her practice focuses on developing Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act and global merger control reportability, notification and clearance strategies, assessing potential antitrust risks, and negotiating optimal regulatory deal terms. She also advises on information exchange, gun-jumping, and general antitrust compliance issues.
Yuni’s clients include U.S. and multinational corporations, private equity sponsors, venture capital funds, and hedge funds investing across all industries.
Yuni is an Executive Committee member of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association and serves as a board member of the Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association.
While at law school, she was elected to Order of the Coif and was a recipient of the Bernard A. Chertcoff Prize in taxation and the Frank H. Gelman Prize in real estate. She served as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and an articles editor for the East Asia Law Review.
Yuni’s select representative transactions include:
- Equinox Gold, a Canada-based mining company, in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Calibre Mining, a Canada-based mining company
- General Atlantic in its:
- acquisition of KAYALI, a United Arab Emirates-based fragrance business founded by Huda and Mona Kattan, from Huda Beauty
- minority growth equity investment in Liftoff, a California-based AI-enabled marketing and monetization solutions company for the app economy, at $4.3 billion valuation
- growth investment in Gravie, a Minnesota-based health benefit company
- investment in Flo Health, a women’s health app
- HEICO Corporation, a technology-driven aerospace company, in its acquisition of Wencor Group, a Georgia-based commercial and military aircraft aftermarket company, for a purchase price of $2.05 billion consisting of $1.9 billion in cash and $150 million in HEICO Class A common stock
- IonQ, a commercial quantum computing and networking company, in its acquisition of Capella Space Corporation, a signals platform for top-secret government and commercial applications
- KPS Capital Partners
- acquisition of Life Fitness from Brunswick Corporation
- acquisition of Howden from Colfax Corporation and the subsequent sale of Howden to Chart Industries for $4.4 billion
- portfolio company, AGG’s acquisition of Tower International
- acquisition of Aluminum Rolling business from Norsk Hydro
- acquisition of Primary Products from Tate & Lyle
- acquisition of Oldcastle Building Products from CRH plc
- acquisition of Catalyst Acoustics Group
- acquisition of INEOS Composites from INEOS Enterprises for €1.7 billion
- sale of its portfolio company, Hussey Copper, a Pennsylvania-based processor and fabricator of copper products, to International Wire Group
- Oak Hill Capital Partners
- in the acquisition of minority stake in Mercer Advisors from Genstar
- in its portfolio company, Calero’s acquisition of Telesoft
- in its acquisition of Trinity Consultants
- in its acquisition of majority stake in Technimark
- in its sale of portfolio company, Safe Fleet, to Clarience Technologies
- Brighton Park Capital
- in its investment in TickPick
- its growth investment in Storyblok
- its investment in PortSwigger
- its investment in LucidLink
- its investment in Coralogix
- Kohlberg & Co in its acquisitions of two packaging companies, Nelipak and Bemis, in an investigation in front of the U.K. Competition and Market Authority (CMA)
- Maiden Holdings, a Bermuda-based reinsurance company, in its $167.5 million combination with Kestrel Group, a Texas-based managing general agent that serves the insurance and reinsurance markets, to form a new, publicly listed specialty insurance company
- QXO in its successful $11 billion unsolicited bid to acquire Beacon Roofing Supply
- Teladoc in its $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo
- Rite Aid, in connection with its chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and sale of certain assets to CVS. The transaction included CVS’s purchase of the prescription files of 625 Rite Aid pharmacies located in 15 states within CVS’s service areas, as well as CVS’s acquisition and continued operation of 64 Rite Aid stores in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
- Spirit Airlines, in its proposed sale to Frontier Airlines, and subsequently JetBlue Airways
- Dollar Tree, in its $9 billion acquisition of Family Dollar, a combination of two of the largest dollar store operators, in an investigation by the FTC and successfully defending against a hostile bid from Dollar General
- Steris in its successful $1.9 billion acquisition of Synergy Health, a transaction that combined two of the largest sterilization providers, in an investigation by the FTC
- R. Bard in its $24 billion sale to Becton, Dickinson, a combination of two top medical device providers, in an investigation by the FTC
- Danone in its $12 billion acquisition of WhiteWave, a transaction that combined two of top purchasers of organic milk, in an investigation by the DOJ
- Publics in its proposed merger with Omnicom, in an investigation by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)
- Dell Inc in its $67 billion acquisition of EMC
- XO Group’s acquisition of WeddingWire, a transaction that combined the two largest online wedding marketplace websites, in an investigation by the DOJ)
