George J. Sampas

Recently, Mr. Sampas advised on the following matters worldwide:

• Altran (France) in its $2 billion acquisition, through its subsidiary Altran US, of Aricent (U.S.)
• Anheuser-Busch InBev (Belgium) in its strategic relationship with a consortium of investors led by Apollo Global Management (U.S.), which acquired a $3 billion minority stake in AB InBev’s U.S.-based metal container plants; $20.1 billion acquisition of the remaining stake it did not already own in Grupo Modelo (Mexico); $1.85 billion sale of a 50% interest in Crown Imports (U.S.) to Constellation Brands (U.S.); and $2.9 billion sale of Compañía Cervecera de Coahuila (Mexico) to Constellation Brands (U.S.)
• BBA Aviation (U.K.) in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Landmark Aviation (U.S.)
• BCE (Canada), with respect to U.S. law, in its $3.9 billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services (Canada) and $3.38 billion acquisition of Astral Media (Canada)

• C&S Wholesale Grocers (U.S.) in its $1.9 billion pending acquisition of 413 stores, eight distribution centers and two offices that Kroger (U.S.) is proposing to divest in connection with Kroger and Albertsons Companies' (U.S.) merger; and acquisition of the wholesale distribution and supply business of The Grocers Supply Company (U.S.)
• Columbia Pipeline Group (U.S.) in its $13 billion acquisition by TransCanada Corporation
• Cronos Group (Canada) in connection with Altria Group's (U.S.) $1.8 billion acquisition of a minority stake in Cronos
• DS Smith (U.K.) in its $920 million acquisition of 80% of the total issued share capital of Interstate Resources (U.S.)
• Enbridge (Canada) in its $14 billion pending acquisition of The East Ohio Gas Company (U.S.), Questar Gas Company (U.S.) and its related Wexpro (U.S.) companies and Public Service Company of North Carolina (U.S.) from Dominion Energy (U.S.); $43 billion acquisition of Spectra Energy (U.S.), which included the indirect acquisition of Union Gas (Canada), a gas utility company in Chatham, Ontario; the acquisitions of its sponsored vehicles, including Spectra Energy Partners (U.S.), Enbridge Income Fund (Canada), Enbridge Energy Partners (U.S.) and Enbridge Energy Management (U.S.), totaling more than $18 billion; and the conversion of its IDRs and general partner interests in Spectra into newly issued Spectra common units, valued at $7.2 billion
• The Energy & Minerals Group (U.S.) in its investment in Cornish Lithium (U.K.), alongside the UK Infrastructure Bank and TechMet (Ireland); and Coronado IV (U.S.), a portfolio company of The Energy and Minerals Group, in its $420 million purchase of the Buchanan Mine in southwestern Virginia and certain other metallurgical coal reserves from CONSOL Energy (U.S.)
• ExxonMobil Chemical Company (U.S.) in connection with its Singapore affiliate’s acquisition of one of the world’s largest aromatics facilities
• Optimer Pharmaceuticals (U.S.) in its acquisition by Cubist Pharmaceuticals (U.S.)
• Remy International (U.S.) in its $1.2 billion acquisition by BorgWarner (U.S.)
• The special committee of the board of directors of Southern Union Company (U.S.) in Energy Transfer Equity’s (U.S.) acquisition of Southern Union
• Suncor Energy (Canada) in its $4.6 billion acquisition of Canadian Oil Sands
• Symbotic (U.S.) in its and SoftBank’s (Japan) establishment of GreenBox Systems (U.S.) and its approximately $7.5 billion new customer contract with GreenBox, $5.5 billion merger with SVF Investment Corp. 3 (U.S.), a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Softbank Investment Advisers (U.K.), and arrangement with Walmart (U.S.) to reimagine Walmart’s regional distribution network through Symbotic’s high tech systems
• United Rentals (U.S.) in its $4.2 billion acquisition of RSC Holdings (U.S.)
• Watlow (U.S.) in its sale to Tinicum L.P. (U.S.)