Brandon Price

Brandon C. Price is a partner in the Corporate Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  His practice is primarily focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, capital-raising transactions, takeover defense and other corporate and securities law matters, with a concentration on banks and other financial services companies.

Mr. Price received a B.S. in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 with highest honors and highest distinction and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.  He received a J.D. in 2006 magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law, where he was an articles editor of the New York University Law Review, a member of the Order of the Coif and a Pomeroy Scholar.

• Thermo Fisher Scientific in its pending $11.5 billion acquisition of Qiagen
• Cardworks in its pending $2.65 billion sale to Ally Financial
• Westrock Coffee in its $405 million acquisition of S&D Coffee from Cott
• United Community in its $473 million strategic merger with First Defiance
• Sandler O’Neill in its merger with Piper Jaffray
• Pfizer in its $11.4 billion acquisition of Array Biopharma
• Revolution Plastics in its sale to Arsenal Capital Partners
• Fidelity Southern Corporation in its $751 million merger with Ameris Bancorp
• Cabot Microelectronics Corporation in its $1.6 billion acquisition of KMG Chemicals, Inc.
• NextEra Energy in its $6.5 billion acquisition of Gulf Power Company, Florida City Gas and the Stanton and Oleander Power Projects from The Southern Company
• Capital One Financial Corporation in numerous transactions, including its entry into a credit card program with Walmart, the sale of its $17 billion mortgage portfolio, the sale of its brokerage business, its acquisition of the Cabela’s credit card business, its $9 billion acquisition of GE Capital’s US Healthcare Finance business, its sale of the Best Buy credit card portfolio, its acquisition of HSBC’s U.S. $30 billion credit card business, its $9 billion acquisition of the U.S. operations of ING Direct Bank and its acquisition of Chevy Chase Bank
• First Evanston Bancorp in its sale to Byline Bancorp
• Wells Fargo & Company in the sale of its Shareowner Services business to Equiniti Group
• CIT Group in the $10 billion sale of its aircraft leasing business to Avolon Holdings, the sale of its aircraft leasing joint ventures to Tokyo Century and its $3.4 billion acquisition of OneWest Bank
• Cathay General Bancorp in its acquisition of Far East National Bank and its acquisition of Asia Bancshares
• Itaú Unibanco in its acquisition of Citigroup’s Brazilian consumer banking business and in the merger of Itaú’s Chilean and Colombian operations with CorpBanca
• Arlington Asset Investment in its successful defense to the control-slate proxy contest by Imation Corp. and Clinton Group
• Cloud9 Technologies in its Series A funding round
• National Penn in its $1.8 billion merger with BB&T
• Atlas Pipeline Partners and Atlas Energy in their $7.7 billion sale to Targa Resources Partners and Targa Resources Corp and the spin-off of Atlas Energy’s non-midstream business
• Dollar Tree in its $9.2 billion acquisition of Family Dollar, its divestiture of 330 Family Dollar stores to Sycamore Partners, and various financing transactions
• Vantiv in its $1.65 billion acquisition of Mercury Payment Systems
• Reverence Capital Partners in its investment in Victory Capital Holdings in connection with the acquisition of Munder Capital Management
• Bank of America in numerous transactions, including the sale of Balboa Insurance, sale of First Republic Bank and sale of various mortgage-related businesses
• The Carlyle Group in its acquisition of a controlling stake in Edgewood Partners Insurance Center
• Sallie Mae in the sale of its Upromise Investments business to Ascensus
• Umpqua in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Sterling Financial and its divestiture of certain Sterling branches to Banner Bank
• Knight Capital in its $1.8 billion sale to GETCO and its $400 million preferred stock investment from several investors

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.S./B.A. 2003, Phi Beta Kappa
• New York University School of Law, J.D. 2006, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Pomeroy Scholar (Articles Editor, New York University Law Review)