Rory O’Halloran is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice.

He represents U.S. and international clients in a broad range of public and private M&A transactions, including in complex cross-border transactions, joint ventures and unsolicited transactions. His experience also includes special committee representations as well as advising clients on corporate governance matters.

• General Electric Company in various matters including:
  • the combination of GE Oil & Gas with Baker Hughes Incorporated to create a new publicly traded company
  • the sale of the GE Energy Financial Services project finance debt business
  • the sale of GE Asset Management to State Street Corporation
• Intercontinental Exchange in various matters including:
  • the acquisition of Ellie Mae
  • the acquisitions of the Chicago Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange
  • the acquisitions of TMC Bonds and BondPoint
  • the acquisition of Simplifile
  • the sale of its IDMS business to FactSet
• Anglo American in various matters including:
  • Mitsubishi Corporation’s investment in Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper project (Peru) and the negotiation of related joint venture arrangements
  • the sale of its Anglo American Norte copper business in Chile to an investor consortium led by Audley Capital
  • its sales to Mitsubishi Corporation and Codelco of minority shareholdings in Anglo American Sur (Chile) and the negotiation of related partnership arrangements
  • the sale of its Moly-Cop and AltaSteel businesses to OneSteel
• ArcelorMittal in various matters including:
  • the joint acquisition (with Nippon Steel) of Essar Steel
  • the joint acquisition (with Nippon Steel) of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA
  • the sale of a 15% interest in its Labrador Trough iron ore mining and infrastructure assets in Canada to a consortium led by POSCO of Korea and China Steel Corporation
• The special committee of the board of directors of Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores in connection with the company’s “going private” merger transaction with Transform Holdco and related sale of the company’s Outlet segment to the Franchise Group
• The special committee of the board of directors of Sprint Nextel Corporation in connection with its evaluation of the unsolicited acquisition proposal submitted by DISH Network and negotiation of the terms of an amended merger agreement with SoftBank
• Ness USA, a portfolio company of The Rohatyn Group, in the sale of its Linium business to Cognizant Technologies Solutions Corporation
• PointState Capital in its investment in Argentine energy company Genneia S.A.
• The National Hockey League’s Arizona Coyotes in the sale of 51% of the franchise to Andrew Barroway
• Pierpont Securities in its merger with Amherst Securities Group
• NPC International in its sale to Olympus Partners
• Sun Pharmaceutical in its “going private” acquisition of all of the publicly-held shares of Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories
• Northgate Capital in its sale of a controlling interest to Religare Enterprises
• JBS in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation
• Dow Chemical in its sale of Morton Salt to K+S Aktiengesellschaft, and in the sale of its Calcium Chloride business to Occidental Chemical Corporation
• Merrill Lynch in its sale to Bank of America
• Thomson in its sale of Thomson Learning to funds managed by Apax and OMERS
• Citigroup in its acquisition of Grupo Financiero Uno

Professional Affiliations

• Member, New York City Bar Association

Awards & Accolades

• Clients tell Chambers that “He is outstanding. He has one of the calmest demeanors I have ever come across.” (2016)