Dan Dufner

Further example of Dan's transactional experience includes:

Healthcare

Representing Elevance Health, Inc. (f/k/a Anthem, Inc.) in a series of acquisitions, including:

• its agreement to acquire home health company CareBridge;
• in its pending acquisition of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana (BCBSLA), a Louisiana mutual insurance company;
• its acquisition of myNEXUS Inc., a post-acute benefits management company focused on delivering innovative home and community-based product offerings;
• its acquisition of InnovaCare Health, L.P.'s Puerto Rico-based subsidiaries, including MMM Holdings, LLC (MMM) and its Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, MMM Healthcare, LLC, as well as affiliated companies and Medicaid plan. MMM is Puerto Rico's largest MA plan and one of the fastest-growing vertically integrated healthcare organizations in the United States;
• its acquisition of Beacon Health Options, the largest independently held behavioral health organization in the United States;
• its acquisition of Aspire Health, Inc., the nation's largest non-hospice, community-based palliative care provider;
• its acquisition of America's 1st Choice, a privately held for-profit Medicare Advantage organization that offers HMO products in Florida and South Carolina;
• its acquisition of HealthSun, one of the fastest-growing integrated Medicare Advantage health plans and healthcare delivery networks in Florida, from Summit Partners;
• its terminated US$54.2 billion agreement to acquire Cigna Corporation, a combination that garnered front-page coverage for more than two years and involved extensive coordination of a White & Case team of cross-practice lawyers in M&A, antitrust, litigation and bank finance;
• its acquisition of Simply Healthcare Holdings, Inc., which, through its two subsidiaries, Simply Healthcare Plans, Inc. and Better Health, Inc., is a leading managed care company for people enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare programs in Florida;
• its US$4.9 billion acquisition of Amerigroup Corporation, one of the country's leading managed care companies that is focused on meeting the healthcare needs of financially vulnerable Americans;
• its acquisition of CareMore Health Group, a leading Medicare Advantage and Senior clinical care provider, which was sold by private equity firm CCMP Capital Advisors; and
• its sale of 1-800 CONTACTS, INC., a leading contact lens retailer, to Thomas H. Lee Partners; its related sale of 1-800 CONTACTS' glasses business to Luxottica; and its prior acquisition of 1-800 CONTACTS from private equity firm Fenway Partners;
• its US$4.9 billion acquisition of Amerigroup Corporation, one of the country's leading managed care companies focused on meeting the health care needs of financially vulnerable Americans;
• its acquisition of CareMore Health Group, a leading Medicare Advantage and Senior clinical care provider from CCMP Capital Advisors;
• the US$4.7 billion sale of its pharmacy benefit management business to Express Scripts, Inc.; and
• its US$6.5 billion acquisition of WellChoice, the parent company of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Telecommunications

Representing DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) in a series of transactions, including:

• its US$25.5 billion unsolicited proposal to acquire Sprint Nextel Corporation; and
• its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Blockbuster, Inc. in a court-approved auction under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.

Satellite Communications Services

Representing EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), a premier global provider of satellite and video delivery solutions, in a series of transactions, including:

• in its pending all-stock merger with DISH Network Corporation;
• the tax-free spin-off and subsequent merger of its broadcast satellite service business, including nine satellites and certain real estate owned by EchoStar, with a subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation;
• its agreement to enter into a joint venture with Yahsat, a leading global satellite operator based in the United Arab Emirates and wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company, to provide commercial Ka-band satellite broadband services across Africa, the Middle East and southwest Asia. He also represented Hughes Network Systems, LLC , a subsidiary of EchoStar, in the purchase of a minority interest in a joint venture with Yahsat;
• its proposed acquisition of LSE-listed Inmarsat plc;
• a strategic transaction with DISH Network involving the transfer of EchoStar's technologies business to DISH in exchange for the redemption of EchoStar preferred tracking stock issued in a prior transaction; and
• in its strategic transaction with DISH Network Corporation whereby EchoStar and its subsidiaries will receive five satellites along with related liabilities for in-orbit incentive payments to the manufacturers of certain of those satellites, and approximately US$11 million in cash from DISH Network in exchange for two issues of preferred tracking stock (the Preferred Tracking Stock). Blockbuster, the DVD and video game rental company, in the sale of its Mexican operations to an affiliate of Grupo Salinas and the administration of its business in the United Kingdom.

Financial Services

• First Republic Bank in its US$1.8 billion merger with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.