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Bob Profusek is an advisor to substantial businesses, focusing on M&A, including takeovers and buyouts; restructurings; and corporate governance matters, including executive compensation. He chairs the Firm's global M&A Practice.
Representative M&A transactions in the past year include Potash's successful defense against BHP's unsolicited tender offer ($43.1 billion), the Continental-United Airlines merger of equals ($8.5 billion), Total's tender offer for SunPower ($1.4 billion), Cliffs National Resources' acquisition of Thompson Mining ($4.9 billion), and Procter & Gamble's reverse Morris Trust split-off of its Pringles business ($2.3 billion) and joint venture with Teva Pharmaceuticals for its global OTC medicine business. Prior transactions include Nextel's merger of equals with Sprint ($46.5 billion); Ernst & Young's divestiture of its consulting business through merger with Cap Gemini ($11.7 billion); and numerous transactions for WL Ross & Co., including the acquisition, IPO, and sale of International Coal Group ($3.4 billion); the merger of International Steel Group and Mittal Steel ($4.1 billion); and its build-ups in automotive components, textiles, and mortgage servicing.
Other companies with which Bob has worked on substantial matters include Abbott Laboratories, Blackstone, Disney, Macy's, RadioShack, and Wasserstein & Co.
Bob is a member of the boards of directors of two NYSE-listed companies. He also is a frequent speaker regarding corporate takeovers and corporate governance, has authored numerous articles, has testified before Congress and the SEC about takeover and compensation-related matters, and is a regular guest commentator on CNBC, CNN, Fox, and Bloomberg TV.