Chris M. Salvatore

chris.salvatore@lw.com

+1.202.350.5297

Profile

Chris Salvatore provides strategic advice to leading companies and private equity firms seeking merger clearance from US antitrust authorities and defending them in civil or criminal antitrust investigations.

Chris draws on his experience from working at another leading law firm to guide clients in strategic mergers and transactions before the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and US Department of Justice (DOJ), including defending clients in merger litigation. He also provides business-centric compliance counselling for both antitrust and anticorruption matters.

Chris advises a broad spectrum of companies across several highly regulated industries, including healthcare, aerospace, defense, technology, and software.

Before joining Latham, Chris was a senior associate at a leading global law firm in Washington, D.C., where he focused on antitrust matters.

Experience

Chris’s experience includes representing:

Press Ganey, a leading provider of experience measurement and data analytics, in its US$6.75 billion acquisition by Qualtrics
An aerospace and defense manufacturing company in its acquisition of an aerospace and defense technology company
SCI Capital Partners and Reddy Ice in its acquisition of Arctic Glacier
FuboTV in its agreement to merge with Disney’s Hulu + live TV product
A global healthcare company in responding to FTC and third-party subpoenas
Informatica, a provider of enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, in its US$8.9 billion sale to Salesforce
NortonLifeLock in its ~ US$8 billion acquisition of Avast*
Resonetics, a global leader in advanced medical engineering, prototyping, product development, and micro manufacturing in its US$900 million acquisition of Memry; after full compliance with the Second Request, the FTC closed its investigation without seeking a remedy*
Cvent on its US$4.6 billion sale to Blackstone*
Genius Sports in various transactions and matters*
EQT Corporation in its ~US$35 billion merger with Equitrans Midstream Corp. to create a vertically integrated natural gas business*
TJC, LP and its portfolio companies on various sales and acquisitions, including:
- CPI International, Inc. in the sale of its Electron Device Business to TransDigm Group Incorporated for US$1.385 billion*
- Its acquisition of L3 Harris Technologies’ Commercial Aviation Solutions business*
Private equity clients including Nordic Capital, Summit Partners, Cerberus Capital Management, Francisco Partners, Vista Equity Partners, Warburg Pincus, New Mountain Capital Partners, Audax Group, Silver Lake, and Shore Capital Partners*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Qualifications

Bar Qualification

District of Columbia
Illinois

Education

JD, University of Chicago Law School, 2019
BA in English & Philosophy, Rutgers University, 2016
cum laude

Practices

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Latham & Watkins Advises GIP on Combination of Power Generation Assets of Saavi Energía With Grupo México

Members of the firm’s Latin America Practice Group represent the global infrastructure investment company in the combination to create a platform with a total output of 4,510 MW and a project pipeline of approximately 5,000 MW.