Neil Whoriskey

Neil Whoriskey is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, currently based in the New York office. His practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions. He is the Co-Chair of the Corporate Governance group.

Mr. Whoriskey's matters include representation of:
• Western Digital Corporation in numerous transactions, including:
o its $19 billion acquisition of SanDisk;
o its $3.775 billion equity investment by a subsidiary of Unisplendour;
o its acquisition of Amplidata;
o its disposition of certain assets to Toshiba Corporation;
• The Board of Directors of Higher One in its data analytics divestiture of Campus Labs to an affiliate of Leeds Equity Partners;
• American Tower in its acquisition of wireless communication tower rights and real property from Verizon Communications for $5 billion in cash;
• OpenText Corporation in its acquisition of Actuate, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company;
• Pluspetrol Resources Corporation N.V. in its acquisition of Apco Oil and Gas International, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company;
• CFR Pharmaceuticals in its $2.9 billion sale to Abbott Laboratories;
• OpenText Corporation in its $1.165 billion acquisition of GXS Group, Inc.;
• ABB Ltd. in its $1 billion acquisition of Power-One, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company, and in the subsequent disposition of certain Power-One subsidiaries;
• Pluspetrol Resources Corporation N.V. in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Harvest Natural Resources, Inc., a NYSE-listed company;
• Embratel, Embrapar and Net Serviços de Comunicação in connection with a “going-private” cash tender offer to acquire Net Serviços, a NASDAQ-listed company;
• Scientific Games Corporation in its $1.5 billion acquisition of WMS industries, Inc., a NYSE-listed company;
• The Raine Group in its investment in Important Media, LLC, a joint venture with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the "South Park" television series and "The Book of Mormon" musical production;
• Goldman Sachs in its sale of Litton Loan Servicing;
• ABB Ltd. in its acquisition of Ventyx, Inc. from private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners;
• BHP Billiton in connection with its $40 billion all-cash offer to acquire Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan;
• Citigroup in its divestiture of Phibro LLC;
• Nortel in the bankruptcy auction of its Enterprise Solutions Business;
• Citigroup in its $15 billion public exchange offer;
• Dexia in its sale of FSA, Inc. to Assured Guaranty Ltd.;
• Evraz Group S.A. in its $4 billion acquisition of IPSCO, Inc. and simultaneous divestiture of certain of the purchased assets;
• Citibank N.A. in its $1.4 billion acquisition of The Bisys Group Inc., an NYSE-listed provider of back office solutions, and simultaneous sale to J.C. Flowers & Co. of the insurance and retirement business of Bisys;
• Evraz Group S.A. in its successful $2.3 billion public tender offer for Oregon Steel, Inc. and its successful public tender offer for Claymont Steel;
• McDonald's Corporation in the disposition of its Latin American assets;
• Electronic Arts in its investment in Neowiz, a Korean games publisher and distributor.

In Hong Kong, Mr. Whoriskey represented, among others, Daewoo Motors in its sale to General Motors; The Carlyle Group and JPMorgan Corsair in the sale of Koram Bank to Citibank; and AIG related funds and Newbridge Asia in their purchase of a controlling stake of Hanaro Telecom, a NASDAQ listed broadband company. Mr. Whoriskey also represented Newbridge Asia in its acquisition of a controlling stake in Shenzhen Development Bank, the first ever sale of control of a Chinese bank to foreign investors.