William Stanton is an associate in the firm’s Business Law department and a member of its Technology and Life Sciences groups, and Public M&A/Corporate governance practice.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- NinjaOne in its $252 million acquisition of Dropsuite Limited
- 2seventy bio in its $286 million sale to Bristol Myers Squibb
- Clearwater Analytics in connection with its Tax Receivable Agreement (TRA) buyout
- Morgan Stanley as financial advisor to:
- Marathon Oil Corp. in its $22.5 billion sale to ConocoPhillips
- Royalty Pharma plc in its $1.1 billion acquisition of its external manager, RP Management, LLC
- AlloVir in its “reverse” merger with Kalaris Therapeutics
- Societal CDMO in its $130 million sale to CoreRx
- Renesas Electronics Corporation in various acquisitions, including its $345 million acquisition of Transphorm
- PathosAI in its acquisition of Rain Oncology
- Surface Oncology in its sale to Coherus Biosciences for stock and contingent value rights (CVRs) valued at $66.9
- eMagin in its $218 million sale to Samsung Display
- Baudax Bio in its merger with TeraImmune
- Ritchie Bros. in its $7.3 billion acquisition of IAA, Inc.
- Rocket Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of Renovacor
- Thoma Bravo in its $2.8 billion take-private of Ping Identity
- Edgio in its $300 million acquisition of Yahoo’s Edgecast business
- BioDelivery Sciences International in its $605 million sale to Collegium Pharmaceutical
- Roman DBDR Tech Acquisition Corp. (a SPAC) in its business combination with Composecure
- Retail Properties of America in its $7.5 billion sale to Kite Realty Group Trust
- Chiasma in its sale to Amryt Pharma
- Leaf Group in its $323 million sale to Graham Holdings Company
- Special Committee of NantKwest in NantKwest’s merger with ImmunityBio
- MyoKardia in connection with its $13.1 billion sale to Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Carbon Black in its $2.1 billion sale to VMware
- AMAG Pharmaceuticals in its $500 million sale to Covis Group, an Apollo Global Management company
- HelpSystems in its $217 million take-private of GlobalSCAPE
- Neon Therapeutics in its $97 million sale to BioNTech
- Teleflex in its acquisition of the vascular intervention business from Biotronik SE & Co. KG
- iCapital in its acquisition of AltExchange
- Deliver in its $2.1 billion sale to Shopify
- Axon Communications in its sale to Relevate Health
- TA Associates in numerous acquisitions and dispositions, including with respect to Wealth Enhancement Group, HelpSystems, Thermacell and Accion Labs.
- Kingswood Capital Management in its acquisition and disposition of Senture
- Webster Equity Partners in its acquisition of Long Island Vitreoretinal Consultants
Areas of Practice
Credentials
Education
JD2018
Brooklyn Law School
(cum laude)
BA2010
Ithaca College
Admissions
Bars
- New York
Recognition & Awards
While attending law school, William served as Articles Editor on the Brooklyn Law Review.