Abigail Hathaway

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 pending acquisition of Shockwave Medical.
• Novartis on its €2.7 billion pending 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.