Erica E. Aho

Erica’s experience includes advising:

M&A and Divestitures

• Adobe on:
  • Acquiring Semrush*
  • Acquiring Workfront*
  • Acquiring frame.io*
  • Its terminated acquisition of Figma*
• Alexion Pharmaceuticals on its acquisition by AstraZeneca*
• APA on its all-stock acquisition of Callon Petroleum*
• Broadcom on acquiring VMware*
• C. R. Bard on its acquisition by Becton Dickinson*
• CareFusion on its acquisition by Becton Dickinson*
• Celgene on its acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb*
• Cigna on acquiring Express Scripts*
• Cimarex Energy on its merger of equals with Cabot Oil & Gas*
• CoreSite Realty on its acquisition by American Tower*
• Coursera on its all-stock merger with Udemy*
• eBay on:
  • Selling StubHub to viagogo*
  • Transferring its Classifieds business to Adevinta*
  • Selling a majority of its Korean businesses to Emart*
• Flutter Entertainment on acquiring Fastball Holdings’ minority stake in FanDuel*
• Frutarom on its sale to International Flavors & Fragrances*
• Herman Miller on acquiring Knoll*
• Hillrom on its acquisition by Baxter International*
• Hologic on its acquisition by funds managed by Blackstone and TPG*
• Mondelēz International on acquiring:
  • Tate’s Bake Shop*
  • Give & Go*
  • Hu Products*
• Norfolk Southern on its pending merger with Union Pacific*
• NuStar Energy on its all-equity sale to Sunoco*
• Nuvasive on its all-stock combination with Globus Medical*
• Palo Alto Networks on acquiring CyberArk Software*
• PDC Energy on its acquisition by Chevron*
• Pilot Corporation on selling its remaining interest in Pilot Travel Centers to Berkshire Hathaway*
• Prologis on:
  • Its all-stock acquisition of Duke Realty*
  • Acquiring Liberty Property Trust*
• PS Business Parks on its acquisition by Blackstone Real Estate affiliates*
• Public Storage on acquiring Simply Self Storage*
• Searchlight Capital Partners on acquiring, together with British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, Consolidated Communications*
• Smurfit Kappa Group on its combination with WestRock*
• Synovus on its all-stock combination with Pinnacle Financial Partners*
• TD Ameritrade’s Strategic Development Committee on TD Ameritrade’s merger with Charles Schwab*
• Thomson Reuters on selling a majority stake in its Financial and Risk business to private equity funds managed by Blackstone*
• United Technologies on:
  • Its merger of equals with Raytheon*
  • Acquiring Rockwell Collins*
  • Selling its Sikorksy aircraft business to Lockheed Martin*
• Veolia on its pending acquisition of Enviri’s Clean Earth business*
• VEREIT on its acquisition by Realty Income*
• Wesco on acquiring Anixter International*

Spinoffs and Reverse Morris Trust Transactions

• Agilent Technologies on its spinoff of Keysight Technologies*
• Alcoa on separating into two independent publicly traded companies, Arconic and Alcoa*
• Arconic on separating into two independent publicly traded companies, Arconic and Howmet Aerospace*
• Encompass Health on its spinoff of Enhabit*
• Fortive on its spinoff of Ralliant*
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise on its spinoff and combination of its software business with Micro Focus in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction*
• HP on its spinoff of Hewlett Packard Enterprise*
• International Paper on its pending separation into two independent publicly traded companies*
• Jacobs Solutions on its spinoff and combination of its Critical Missions Solutions business in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction with Amentum*
• MDU Resources Group on its spinoffs of:
  • Everus Construction Group*
  • Knife River Corporation*
• United Technologies on its three-way spinoff of Otis Worldwide and Carrier Global*
• XPO on its spinoffs of:
  • RXO*
  • GXO Logistics*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham