Bradley C. Faris

Chicago
  • 233 South Wacker Drive, Suite 5800
  • Chicago, IL 60606
  • USA
 
 

Bradley Faris is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department. Mr. Faris has a broad mergers and acquisitions practice, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, friendly and unsolicited tender offers, going-private transactions, takeover defense counseling and advising independent directors in conflict of interest transactions. Mr. Faris has represented public and private companies such as Koch Industries, Inc., Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, A.O. Smith Corporation and Accuride Corporation, as well as private equity firms such as GTCR and Silverfleet Capital. Mr. Faris also has represented financial advisors in mergers and acquisitions transactions, including Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank.

Mr. Faris regularly speaks and writes on mergers and acquisitions-related topics, including new developments in public company mergers and acquisitions and takeover defense. Mr. Faris served as a commentator on the panel addressing “Public Company M&A Transactions: Techniques for Today’s Market” at the 2011 Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute in Chicago, Illinois. Recent publications by Mr. Faris include “The Resurgent Rights Plan: Recent Poison Pill Developments and Trends” and “Special Negotiating Committees: If, When, Who and How—A Guide for the General Counsel.”

Mr. Faris is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois Bar Association.

 

Mr. Faris' experience includes representation of:

  • GTCR in connection with its equity financing for Zayo Group, LLC's US$2.2 billion acquisition of AboveNet, Inc. (July 2012)
  • Transcend Services, Inc., in its US$300 million sale to Nuance Communications, Inc. (April 2012)
  • GTCR in its US$267 million acquisition by tender offer of Global Traffic Network, Inc., a leading provider of custom traffic and news reports to radio and television stations outside the United States (September 2011)
  • Silverfleet Capital in its US$675 million sale of Sterigenics International, a medical device sterilizer and ionizer, to affiliates of GTCR (March 2011)
  • Arteva Specialities, S. del R.L. de C.V., a subsidiary of INVISTA S.à.r.l., in its US$420 million sale of its PET polymer and resins manufacturing facilities to Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (March 2011)
  • Accuride Corporation in connection with its post-bankruptcy recapitalization and convertible notes exchange offer (November 2010)
  • GTCR in its US$828 million acquisition of Protection One, Inc., a leading national provider of electronic security services, in a sponsor-led, debt-financed acquisition by tender offer (June 2010)
  • Eli Lilly & Company in its US$6.5 billion tender offer for ImClone Systems Inc. (November 2008)
  • The Special Committee of the board of directors of the Chicago Board of Trade in connection with its US$12 billion merger with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (including the intervening unsolicited offer from the International Commodities Exchange) (July 2007)
  • Koch Industries, Inc., in its US$22 billion acquisition of Georgia-Pacific Corp (December 2005)