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Alexandra D. Korry has extensive experience representing a broad range of clients in a wide variety of merger and acquisition transactions.

For more than 25 years, Ms. Korry has advised clients on a wealth of transactions across industry sectors, including:

Technology

• CIC International Co., Ltd., Boyu Capital and CITIC Capital as lead investors in connection with the equity financing of Alibaba Group Holding Limited’s repurchase of Yahoo!’s stake in Alibaba
• Microsoft Corporation as the organizer of a consortium of technology companies in the acquisition of part of Novell’s patent portfolio; in its unsolicited offer for Yahoo!; and in its investments in ATT, Comcast, Thomson Multimedia, RoadRunner, Telewest Communications plc and Rogers Communications
• Colony Capital LLC-led investor group in connection with its acquisition of LodgeNet Interactive Corp. by means of a prepackaged bankruptcy
• Adelphia Communications in its sale to Time Warner and Comcast, the largest 363 sale in history
• Eastman Kodak Company in its graphic arts worldwide joint venture with Sun Chemical, the sale of its copier sales and services division to Danka Business Systems PLC and the sale of its copier manufacturing operation to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen
• Philips Electronics in its consumer telecommunications joint venture with Lucent Technologies, its sale of Magnavox Electronic Systems, its investment in Whittle Communications and the FEI/Micrion merger

Financial Services

• Fifth Third Bancorp in connection with structuring, negotiating and implementing the “Up-C” structure and effecting Vantiv’s IPO, its synthetic participation in the IPO, and in the prior sale of its 51 percent stake in Vantiv to Advent
• Wells Fargo Securities LLC in connection with its acquisition of Citadel Securities LLC’s investment banking business
• UBS in its acquisitions of ABN-AMRO’s prime brokerage business and Charles Schwab SoundView Capital Markets 
• First Bank System in its acquisition of U.S. Bancorp
• Goldman Sachs in its capacity as financial adviser in M&A transactions across several industries

Consumer and Retail

• Versa Capital Management in its acquisition out of bankruptcy of the Avenue brand of plus-size women’s fashion apparel from United Retail Group
• Pershing Square in connection with its investment in Landry’s Restaurants and its activist role in the “going private” acquisition by Tilman Fertitta
• InBev in its acquisition of Anheuser-Busch

Energy

• agri.capital Group S.A. in connection with Alinda Capital Partners’ acquisition of a controlling stake
• Sempra Energy in the sale of its RBS-Sempra global commodities joint venture to J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation
• Sustainable Insight Capital Management, LLC in the creation of a new asset management company dedicated to the green/sustainable sector

Healthcare and Life Sciences

• Eastman Kodak Company in the sale of its Nanosystems division to Elan Corporation and in the sale of its clinical diagnostics division to Johnson & Johnson
• United Healthcare in its efforts to acquire Humana

Commodities

• MF Global Ltd. in connection with certain pre-bankruptcy strategic alternatives
• UBS in its strategic dispositions of its worldwide commodities businesses and in its acquisitions of ABN-AMRO’s global futures and options business and AIG’s rights in the Dow Jones-AIG (now UBS) Commodities Index

Other

• China Investment Corporation in its investment in Diamond S Shipping
• Goldman Sachs in its acquisition of the Rockefeller Center REIT
• Tubos de Acero de México in its strategic alliance with Siderca

Recognitions

Ms. Korry is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer by widely referenced legal guides, including Chambers, The Best Lawyers in America and New York Super Lawyers. 

“Alexandra is sharp as a whip and twice as lethal. She’s got the strength of will and personality to get any deal across the finish line.” 
The Best Lawyers in America, 2012

Professional Activities and Community Involvement

Ms. Korry is active in a variety of community organizations, including the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, and is a retired member of the board of visitors of Duke Law School. She is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School.