Jonathan A. Blackburn

JONATHAN BLACKBURN’s principal areas of practice include the representation of buyers, sellers and financial advisers in public and private mergers and acquisitions across a wide range of industries, private equity transactions and a variety of capital markets transactions, including derivative transactions and securities offerings. Jonathan also regularly advises publicly traded and private companies regarding corporate governance matters, disclosure policy and issues arising under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and state corporate law. During law school, he served as executive editor of Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice.

Recent transactions on which Jonathan has advised include:

• Affinity Partners as part of an investor consortium, along with PIF and Silver Lake, in an all-cash acquisition of Electronic Arts Inc., a global leader in digital interactive entertainment, with an enterprise value of approximately US$55 billion.
• Apollo Global Management in the acquisition of Credit Suisse’s Securitized Products Group.
• Aspen Insurance in its acquisition by Sompo Holdings for US$3.5 billion.
• Athene Holding Ltd. in connection with the acquisition of Apollo's Commercial Real Estate loan portfolio valued at US$9 billion.
• FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments, in obtaining a landmark approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to convert Fidelity’s New York limited purpose trust company into a national trust bank licensed by the OCC to engage in a broad range of business activities in the digital assets space.
• Mubadala Capital as Lead Investor in Aquarian Capital’s US$4.1 Billion Take-Private of Brighthouse Financial.
• Sale by GE of GE Appliances business to Haier, a transaction valued at US$5.4 billion.
• Sale by GE Capital of its Sponsor Finance lending platform to CPPIB, a transaction valued at US$12 billion.
• Sale of Meadowbrook Insurance Group (NYSE: MIG) to Fosun Group for US$433 million.
• Sale by Glencore Viterra of Dakota Growers Pasta Company to Post Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: POST) in a transaction valued at US$370 million.
• Deutsche Bank in connection with the US$1 billion plus reorganization of Station Casinos.
• Acquisition by GE of Dresser, Inc. from private equity sponsors led by Riverstone Partners, a transaction valued at US$3.1 billion.
• Discover Financial Services in its US$600 million acquisition of The Student Loan Corporation.
• Public company mergers, including the following that were each valued at more than US$1 billion:
  • Care Capital Properties/Sabra Health Care REIT
  • CBOE Holdings/Bats Global Markets
  • Keurig Green Mountain/JAB
  • Strategic Hotels/Blackstone
  • Duke Energy/Piedmont Natural Gas
  • Catamaran/UnitedHealth
  • Beam/Suntory
• Ingredion Incorporated in connection with its US$340 million acquisition of publicly traded Penford Corporation.
• Corn Products International, Inc. (n/k/a Ingredion Incorporated) in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Akzo Nobel N.V.’s specialty starch business.
• Catamaran Corporation in its US$4 billion acquisition of publicly traded Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc. and the related debt and equity financings.