Peter Harwich advises leading US and international public companies, as well as their boards of directors, in their most significant M&A transactions and other sensitive corporate matters.
Mr. Harwich brings experience representing clients in high-stakes transactions across a variety of industries, with a particular focus on the technology, healthcare, consumer products, and financial services sectors. He provides commercially focused counsel to clients in connection with public and private M&A matters, joint ventures and strategic alliances, securities laws, corporate governance, and stock exchange requirements.
Mr. Harwich also routinely represents issuers and underwriters on SEC-registered capital markets transactions.
Mr. Harwich's experience includes advising:
- Inovalon, a leading provider of cloud-based platforms empowering data-driven healthcare, in its US$7.3 billion take-private sale to an equity consortium led by Nordic Capital
- The independent directors, special committees, and conflicts committee of NYSE-listed Athene Holding in connection with various matters, including Athene’s pending US$11 billion stock-for-stock merger with NYSE-listed Apollo Global Management, Athene’s US$1.55 billion share exchange transaction with Apollo Global Management, its acquisition together with Apollo Global Management of PK AirFinance from GECAS involving US$3.6 billion in aviation finance assets, and its establishment of strategic capital vehicle Athene Co-Invest Reinsurance Affiliate (ACRA) with US$3 billion in capital commitments
- The independent directors of NYSE-listed First Data in its US$22 billion stock-for-stock merger with Fiserv
- DXC Technology in its US$5 billion sale of its US State and Local Health and Human Services business to Veritas Capital
- DXC Technology in its US$525 million sale of its healthcare provider software business to Dedalus Group
- DXC Technology in its US$2 billion all-cash acquisition of NYSE-listed Luxoft Holding
- DXC Technology in the US$4.4 billion tax-free spin-off and subsequent three-way merger of its US government IT services business with Veritas Capital portfolio companies Vencore and KeyPoint Government Solutions in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction to form NYSE-listed Perspecta
- DXC on its Reverse Morris Trust transaction involving Hewlett Packard Enterprise's global enterprise services segment and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which had a transaction value at closing of approximately US$14 billion and resulted in the formation of DXC
- CSC on its approximately US$6 billion spin-off of CSRA and special dividend and the approximately US$2.3 billion merger of CSRA and SRA International
- SAP on its largest US transactions, including its US$3.4 billion tender offer for NYSE-listed SuccessFactors and its approximately US$6.7 billion tender offer for NASDAQ-listed Business Objects
- Thomson Reuters on numerous US transactions, including the US$17 billion public acquisition of NYSE-listed Reuters Group; the acquisitions of Integration Point, Practical Law Company, Manatron, Paisley, and Pangea3; and the divestiture of various businesses, including its sale of its Intellectual Property & Science segment to Onex and Baring for US$3.55 billion; its US$390 million sale of its Corporate Services unit to Nasdaq; and the sales of its Legal Managed Services, Penn-Foster, and Property Tax Services units
- Deutsche Börse on its US$1.1 billion sale of International Securities Exchange Holdings to NASDAQ
- GE on numerous US transactions, including the US$3.8 billion sale of its Advanced Materials business, its US$1.2 billion public acquisition of NASDAQ-listed IDX Systems, its US$1.1 billion public acquisition of NASDAQ-listed Vital Signs, and its sale of 81% of GE Homeland Protection to SAFRAN for US$579 million
- D.E Master Blenders (the spin-off resulting from Sara Lee's separation into two public companies in 2012) in its approximately US$9.8 billion public acquisition by a consortium led by Joh. A. Benckiser
*Certain matters were handled prior to joining Latham