Victor Goldfeld

Victor Goldfeld is a corporate partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, focusing on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, private equity transactions and other complex corporate and securities law matters. He has represented a broad range of clients in a variety of industries.  Victor was named a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer in 2021. He also is recognized as one of the 500 Leading Dealmakers in America by Lawdragon. 

Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals

• Perrigo Company plc in its pending €1.8 billion acquisition of HRA Pharma from funds affiliated with Astorg and Goldman Sachs Asset Management; its $1.55 billion divestiture of its generics Rx pharmaceuticals business to Altaris Capital Partners; and its successful defense against a $26 billion hostile takeover offer by Mylan N.V.
• Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc in its $7.2 billion acquisition of GW Pharmaceuticals plc
• Cantel Medical in its $4.6 billion merger with STERIS plc
• Immunomedics in its $21 billion sale to Gilead Sciences
• Mallinckrodt in its pending spin-off of its specialty generics business, its $1.2 billion acquisition of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, its $1.3 billion acquisition of Therakos from The Gores Group, its $2.3 billion acquisition of Ikaria from a Madison Dearborn-led investor group, its $5.6 billion acquisition of Questcor Pharmaceuticals and its $1.4 billion acquisition of Cadence Pharmaceuticals
• Medtronic in its $6.1 billion divestiture of a portion of its patient monitoring and recovery division to Cardinal Health
• Abbott Laboratories in its $25 billion acquisition of St. Jude Medical and its $4.3 billion divestiture of its vision care business to Johnson & Johnson
• Perrigo Company plc in its successful defense against a $26 billion hostile takeover offer by Mylan N.V.
• Covidien in its $50 billion sale to Medtronic, its spin-off of Mallinckrodt and its reincorporation from Bermuda to Ireland
• Forest Laboratories in its $28 billion sale to Actavis

Technology, Media and Telecommunications

• Flutter Entertainment plc in its $4.2 billion acquisition of Fastball Holdings’ 37.2% interest in FanDuel, taking Flutter’s stake in FanDuel up to 95%
• Searchlight Capital Partners in its $2 billion acquisition of Mitel Networks, and its strategic equity investment in the $4.3 billion acquisition of Rackspace Hosting, Inc. by funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management
• TEGNA (formerly Gannett) in its sale of CareerBuilder to funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, its spin-off of Cars.com and its spin-off of its publishing division
• Intelsat in its terminated combination with OneWeb and $1.7 billion investment in the combined company by Softbank, and in numerous financing transactions
• Charter Communications in its $10.4 billion acquisition of Bright House Networks from Advance/Newhouse
• Verizon in its $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone’s 45% interest in Verizon Wireless
• Michael Dell in his $24.4 billion acquisition, with Silver Lake Partners, of Dell Inc.
• Och-Ziff, Allen & Co. and the other shareholders of SESAC in the sale of a majority stake in the company to Rizvi Traverse Management
• McGraw-Hill in the formation of the S&P/Dow Jones Indices joint venture with CME Group
• CenturyLink in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Savvis
• Televisa in the formation of a Spanish-language movie distribution joint venture with Lionsgate
• IAC/InterActiveCorp in its simultaneous spin-offs of Ticketmaster, Tree.com, HSN and Interval Leisure Group

Real Estate

• Ventas in its pending $2.3 billion acquisition of New Senior Investment Group; its restructuring of its master lease with Brookdale Senior Living its revised governance arrangements with, and additional investment in, Atria Senior Living in connection with Atria’s capital raise from Fremont Realty Capital; and its spin-off of most of its post-acute/skilled nursing facility portfolio into an independent, publicly traded REIT
• Chatham Lodging Trust in its $1.3 billion restructuring, with NorthStar Realty Finance, of its joint venture with Cerberus Capital Management
• AMB Property Corporation in its $15 billion merger with ProLogis

Energy

• EQT in its spin-off of Equitrans Midstream and its $6.7 billion acquisition of Rice 
• Halliburton in its terminated $34.6 billion acquisition of Baker Hughes
• Atlas Energy in its $4.3 billion sale to Chevron and simultaneous spin-off, purchase and sale transactions involving Atlas affiliates
• MidAmerican Energy in its terminated $4.7 billion merger with Constellation Energy

Financial Services

• S&P Global in its pending $44 billion acquisition of IHS Markit Ltd.; and in the formation of the S&P/Dow Jones Indices joint venture with CME Group
• Nasdaq in its $2.75 billion acquisition of Verifin Holdings

Industrial 

• United Technologies Corporation in the all-stock merger of equals of its Aerospace businesses with Raytheon Company; its acquisition of Rolls-Royce’s interests in the IAE International Aero Engines joint venture and numerous other transactions
• Cooper Industries plc in its $12.6 billion sale to Eaton Corporation; and its reincorporation from Bermuda to Ireland

• Colgate university, B.A. 1999, cum laude
• New York University School of Law, J.D. 2003, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif (Articles Editor, New York University Law Review)