Morton Pierce

Recent matters include the representation of:

• Golden Nugget Online Gaming, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNOG) and the Special Committee of its Board of Directors, in the US$1.56 billion acquisition of GNOG by DraftKings Inc., a leading digital sports entertainment and gaming company.
• Special Committee of Cellular Biomedicine Group, Inc. in its sale to a consortium including certain members of CBMG management, CBMG stockholders and financial sponsors.
• Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. (NYSE: MIC) and its related entities in the sale of three businesses, including (i) the US$4.475 billion sale of its Atlantic Aviation business to KKR; (ii) the US$2.685 billion sale of International-Matex Tank Terminals to Riverstone Holdings LLC.; and (iii) the US$514 million sale of the MIC Hawaii businesses to Argo Infrastructure Partners, LP.
• Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZMH), a world leader in musculoskeletal health solutions, in its US$13.35 billion acquisition of Biomet, Inc., one of the world's leading medical device manufacturers;
• Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNTH), a leader in the development, manufacture and commercialization of innovative diagnostic imaging agents and products, in its US$500 million acquisition of Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PGNC), an oncology company developing innovative medicines and artificial intelligence to find, fight and follow cancer;
• LifePoint Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPNT) in its US$5.6 billion merger with fellow healthcare provider RCCH HealthCare Partners (RCCH), which is owned by certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO);
• Calpine Corporation in its US$17 billion sale to Energy Capital Partners, an energy-focused private equity firm, and a consortium of investors including Access Industries and Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board;
• Sony Corporation of America in its US$2.3 billion acquisition of the equity interests in DH Publishing, L.P. (the parent entity of EMI Music Publishing) held by a group of investors led by Mubadala Investment Company;
• Sony Corporation of America in its US$400 million investment in Bilibili Inc., a China-based provider of online entertainment services; 
• Global Infrastructure Partners in its entrance into a strategic joint venture with Hess Corporation through the US$2.675 billion acquisition of a 50 percent interest in the owner of Hess's midstream crude oil and natural gas infrastructure assets located primarily in the Bakken Shale;
• Omnicare, Inc. in its US$12.7 billion sale to CVS Health;
• Revel AC Inc., the parent company of Revel Entertainment Group, LLC that owned Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ, in its sale of substantially all of its assets pursuant to a bankruptcy auction process;
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of GFI Group Inc., (NYSE: GFIG), the New York brokerage and clearing house, in the successful completion of a tender offer by BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, for the outstanding shares of GFI, resulting in an equity value of approximately US$780 million and an enterprise value of US$1 billion. The transaction marks one of the most complex hostile M&A transactions;
• Fisher Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSCI), a Seattle-based communications company that owned and operated television and radio stations in the western United States, in its US$373.3 million sale to Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., the largest and one of the most diversified television broadcasting companies in the United States;
• Fougera Pharmaceuticals and its private equity shareholders, Nordic Capital, DLJ and Avista Capital Partners, in the US$1.525 billion all cash purchase of Fougera Pharmaceuticals by Novartis AG. The acquisition of Fougera makes Sandoz, the generics division of Novartis, the number one generic dermatology medicines company globally and in the United States;
• The Talbots, Inc. (NYSE: TLB), a leading specialty retailer and direct marketer of women's apparel, shoes and accessories, in its US$369 million sale to an affiliate of Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm based in New York; and
•  The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) and ESPN, Inc. in connection with News Corporation's acquisition of ESPN's 50 percent equity interest in ESPN STAR Sports (ESS).