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Adam O. Emmerich Adam O. Emmerich is a Partner in Wachtell Lipton's corporate department, focusing primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities law matters. His practice has included a broad and varied representation of public and private corporations and other entities in a variety of industries throughout the United States and globally, in connection with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures and financing transactions. He also has extensive experience in takeover defense. Adam is recognized as one of the 500 leading lawyers in America by Lawdragon, as one of the world’s leading M&A lawyers in Chambers, as an expert in each of M&A, Corporate Governance and M&A in the real estate field by Who's Who Legal, and as an expert both in M&A and in Corporate Governance by Euromoney Institutional Investor’s Expert Guides. Adam was recently named one of Hollywood’s Top 20 Dealmakers of 2017 by The Hollywood Reporter. Among the transactions in which he has taken a leading role are: T-Mobile USA and Deutsche Telekom in the agreed $146 billion all-stock combination of T-Mobile and Sprint, Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile USA in the combination of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS Communications at a $30 billion enterprise value, and Deutsche Telekom in its agreed $39 billion sale of T-Mobile to AT&T, Broadcom in its $147 billion proposal to acquire Qualcomm, Frutarom Industries Ltd in its $7.1 billion acquisition by International Flavors & Fragrances, Medtronic plc in its $6.1 billion sale of a portion of its Patient Monitoring & Recovery Division to Cardinal Health, Google in its participation in the Nortel patent auction, the board of Wyeth in its $68 billion acquisition by Pfizer, XPO Logistics in its acquisition of Norbert Dentressangle S.A. for €3.24 billion, its $3 billion acquisition of Con-way, its acquisition of New Breed for $615 million, and its acquisition of Pacer International for $335 million, and in connection with equity investments in XPO by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, GIC – Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, PSP Investments and others, Creative Artists Agency in the investment by TPG Capital to acquire a controlling interest, Doosan Corporation in its acquisition of the assets of ClearEdge Power in a Section 363 bankruptcy sale, Mallinckrodt plc in its $5.6 billion acquisition of Questcor Pharmaceuticals, its $1.4 billion acquisition of Cadence Pharmaceuticals, its $2.3 billion acquisition of Ikaria, its $1.325 billion acquisition of Therakos, Inc., and its $1.2 billion acquisition of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Harland Clarke, a subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes, in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Valassis Communications, the $4.7 billion acquisition of Constellation Energy by MidAmerican Energy, the acquisition by Raytheon of the defense business of Hughes Electronics from GM, and Raytheon’s acquisition of Texas Instruments' defense business and sale of its Amana appliance unit, Man Group’s purchase of Refco’s regulated futures business in Refco’s bankruptcy proceeding, Taubman Centers’, Dana’s and Circuit City’s successful defenses of hostile takeover attempts by Simon Property Group, ArvinMeritor and Highfields Capital, respectively, MacAndrews & Forbes in its recapitalization of Revlon, MetLife in a variety of transactions, Seagram/Universal’s acquisition of Viacom’s interest in USA Network, and MCA’s sale to Matsushita. After serving as a law clerk to Judge Abner J. Mikva, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Adam joined the firm in 1986 and was named partner in 1991. He attended Swarthmore College and The University of Chicago, from which he received his J.D. with honors. Adam is co-chair of the International Institute for the Study of Cross- Border M&A, co-chair of the advisory board of New York University’s REIT Center for the Study of Public Real Estate Companies, and a member of the American Law Institute.