Andrew Elken

Mr. Elken’s recent M&A experience includes advising:

• Amazon on its:
  • US$8.45 billion acquisition of MGM Studios*
  • Investment in Diamond Sports Group
• Atlas Air Worldwide on its US$5.2 billion acquisition by an Apollo-led investor group*
• Centrica on its US$3.625 billion divestiture of its North American energy supply, services, and trading business (Direct Energy) to NRG Energy*
• CyrusOne on its US$15 billion acquisition by KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners*
• Daily Mail and General Trust on the £1.425 billion divestiture of its global risk insurance modeling and analytics business (RMS) to Moody’s*
• Deutsche Telekom on its master framework agreement with SoftBank and T-Mobile, realigning T-Mobile’s ownership and governance*
• DTE Energy on the US$7 billion spin-off of its midstream business (DT Midstream)*
• Evergy on its agreements with Elliott Management and Bluescape Energy Partners*
• GasLog on:
  • Its take-private transaction with BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund*
  • Acquiring GasLog Partners*
• Healthpeak Properties on its US$21 billion stock-for-stock merger with Physicians Realty Trust
• IsoPlexis on its stock-for-stock merger with Berkeley Lights*
• Light & Wonder on its acquisition of SciPlay’s remaining publicly held shares*
• Peabody Energy on its proposed joint venture with Arch Resources*
• PG&E on corporate governance matters, securities matters, its chapter 11 reorganization, and other strategic matters*
• Rogers Communications on its C$26 billion acquisition of Shaw Communications*
• Tabula Rasa HealthCare on its US$570 million take private acquisition by Nautic Partners*
• The entities selling substantially all of the assets of The Weinstein Company through a Section 363 auction to affiliates of Lantern Asset Management and Spyglass Media Group for US$289 million in cash, plus the assumption of up to US$127.5 million in liabilities*
• WestRock on its:
  • US$4.9 billion acquisition of KapStone*
  • US$2.28 billion acquisition of Multi Packaging Solutions* 
• World Fuel Services on the US$350 million sale of its Multi Service payment solutions business to Corsair Capital*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham