William J. Rowe

William frequently acts as lead M&A counsel assisting clients with complex and development strategy driven mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, including transactions involving venture capital or private equity backed businesses and start-ups, intellectual property driven transactions, carve out transactions and in-bound or outbound geographic expansions through acquisitions. His practice also includes public mergers and acquisition transactions, securities compliance, venture capital investments, co-development agreements and licensing arrangements.

• Represented Crane Co., a US public company, on its USD 800 million acquisition of Crane & Co., Inc., a private company supplier of secure banknotes.
• Represented FedEx in its USD 1.4 billion acquisition of Genco Distribution System.
• Represented Safran in its USD 710 million sale of its Morpho Detection airport security business.
• Represented FedEx in the US securities aspects of its USD 4.8 billion acquisition of TNT Express.
• Represented Ecolab in its USD 8.1 billion merger with Nalco.
• Represented Medtronic in connection with its USD 816 million acquisition of China Kanghui.
• Represented the independent committee of the board of directors of Telvent with respect to Schneider Electric USD 2 billion tender offer for all outstanding shares of Telvent.
• Represented Kao Corporation in its acquisition of Washing Systems, LLC from Gryphon Investors.
• Represented McDonald’s in its flagship commercial and technology partnership with UberEats.
• Represented Walgreens in its Specialty Pharmacy and Mail Service Pharmacy Joint Venture with Prime Therapeutics.