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About Abigail Hathaway
Abigail advises public and private companies on domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, investments, divestures, carve-outs and joint ventures. She also advises clients on shareholder activism defense, corporate governance, federal securities law and other general corporate matters.
Recent work
- Johnson & Johnson on its $13.1 billion acquisition of Shockwave Medical.
- Novartis on its pending €2.7 billion acquisition of MorphoSys.
- AstraZeneca on its $1.2 billion acquisition of Gracell Biotechnologies.
- WestRock Company on its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa Group, creating Smurfit WestRock.
- Carrier Global Corporation on its €12 billion acquisition of Viessmann Climate Solutions.
- General Atlantic on the $4 billion sale of its publicly traded portfolio company, EngageSmart, to Vista Equity Partners.
- Amazon.com on its now terminated $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot.
- John Wood Group on the $1.9 billion sale of its Built Environment consulting business to WSP Global.
- Albireo Pharma on its:
- sale to Ipsen for $952 million plus one contingent value right per share.
- royalty monetization agreement with Sagard Healthcare Partners.
- Aetna on its $77 billion acquisition by CVS Health.
- Freeport-McMoRan on the sale of a portion of its cobalt business to Umicore.
- Novo Nordisk on its:
- $1.8 billion acquisition of Emisphere Technologies and related Eligen SNAC royalty stream obligations owed to MHR Fund Management.
- acquisition of the U.S. and Canadian rights to Macrilen (macimorelin) from Strongbridge Biopharma.
- Warburg Pincus as a selling shareholder in connection with Energy Transfer’s $5.1 billion acquisition of SemGroup.
- ORIX Corporation on its acquisition of Boston Capital’s low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) fund portfolio by ORIX portfolio company, Boston Financial.
- General Electric on the $11.1 billion merger of GE Transportation and Wabtec.
- Ad hoc group of FTS International bondholders, in connection with the Chapter 11 restructuring of FTS International.
- Lightyear Capital on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Lighthouse Technologies.
- S&P Global on its $550 million acquisition of Kensho Technologies.
Qualifications
Education
Columbia Law School
- J.D., 2017
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., 2012
- Economics and Political Science, summa cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admission
Admitted in New York.