Tomas Rua

About Tomas Rua

Tomas Rua is a partner in New York, focused on complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions across a variety of industries. Tomas has worked on numerous high-profile transactions, including sales and acquisitions of publicly-traded and private companies, carve-out divestitures, asset sales and purchases, minority investments and joint ventures. He also counsels companies and their boards on general corporate and corporate governance matters as well as fiduciary duty considerations. Tomas has been recognized as a future leader in mergers and acquisitions as part of the “2024 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation” by Lawdragon.

Recent work

• Apple in multiple private M&A transactions.
• Roivant Sciences on its $7.1 billion sale of Telavant to Roche and its $1.2 billion sale of Dermavant to Organon.
• JD Sports on its acquisition of Hibbett, Inc. for an enterprise value of approximately $1.1 billion.
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Astra Space on its all-cash take-private of Astra Space.
• Committee of independent directors of the board of Qualtrics on the $12.5 billion all-cash sale of the company to a private equity consortium.
• Board of Directors of Boxed, Inc. on its announced process to explore strategic alternatives.
• Jungheinrich AG on its $375 million acquisition of Storage Solutions, Inc.
• Euronav on its proposed $4.2 billion business combination with Frontline.
• Stanley Black & Decker on the $3.2 billion divestiture of its electronic security and healthcare solutions businesses to Securitas AB.
• Ericsson on its $6.2 billion acquisition of Vonage.
• Belden on the sale of its industrial cable business in Brazil to Yangtze Optical FC.
• PepsiCo in multiple private M&A transactions.
• Stagwell Inc. on various corporate governance matters and related transactions.
• Stagwell Media on its combination with MDC Partners, pursuant to which Stagwell acquired a 69% interest in MDC through an “Up-C” transaction structure.
• Ecology and Environment on its acquisition by WSP Global.
• Henkel on its acquisition of DevaCurl.
• International Flavors & Fragrances on its $7.1 billion acquisition of Frutarom.
• Warburg Pincus on its acquisition of Gabriel Brothers.
• Overseas Shipholding Group on the separation and spin-off of its international business, International Seaways.
• International Seaways on the $434 million acquisition of the holding companies for six 300,000 DWT VLCC vessels from Euronav.
• Stanley Ventures on multiple equity investments in companies developing disruptive technologies, including Humavox and ConnectMyEV.
• Goldman Sachs & Co. as financial advisor on multiple M&A transactions.
• The financial advisor to a special committee of the Board of Directors of Alicorp S.A.A. in connection with Alicorp’s $292M acquisition of Industrias de Aceite S.A. and related assets.
• The financial advisors to Grupo Financiero Banorte, in connection with Banorte’s $1.4 billion acquisition of Grupo Financiero Interacciones.
• BNP Paribas on various 144A and Regulation S debt offerings.
• Harland Clarke on the financing of its acquisition of Maxpoint Interactive.