Bio

Scott Barshay is Chair of the Paul, Weiss Corporate Department. His practice focuses on advising clients and their boards on mergers and acquisitions, activist defense and other significant corporate matters. Scott also regularly counsels corporations and their directors on securities law, corporate governance, crisis management and internal investigations. Scott has represented clients in many of the largest and most important M&A transactions and activist defense and corporate matters in recent years, including ADP in its successful proxy contest against Pershing Square; Anheuser-Busch InBev in its $107 billion acquisition of SABMiller; BHP Billiton in the activist campaign by Elliott Management; Burlington Northern Santa Fe in its $44 billion sale to Berkshire Hathaway; Chevron in its $60 billion acquisition of Hess Corporation and its proposed $50 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum; Emerson Electric in the activist campaign by D.E. Shaw; General Electric in the spin-offs of GE Healthcare and GE Vernova and the launch of GE Aerospace, in the $30 billion combination of its jet leasing unit, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), with AerCap Holdings, and in the $21.4 billion sale of its biopharma business to Danaher; the independent directors of Harris Corporation in its $37 billion merger of equals with L3 Technologies; Honeywell International in its unsolicited $90 billion offer to acquire United Technologies and in the activist campaign by Third Point; IBM in its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat; Intel Corporation in the activist investment by Third Point; Kraft Heinz in its proposed $143 billion acquisition of Unilever; McDonald’s in its successful proxy contest against Carl Icahn; Mylan in its successful defense against a $40 billion hostile takeover offer from Teva and in its $35 billion hostile offer to acquire Perrigo; Nuance Communications in its $19.7 billion sale to Microsoft; Qualcomm in its successful defense against a $142 billion hostile takeover offer from Broadcom, its proposed $47 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors, and in the activist campaign by JANA Partners; Rocket Companies (the parent company of Quicken Loans) in its initial public offering, resulting in a first day $43 billion market capitalization; Starwood Hotels in its $13.6 billion sale to Marriott International and in Anbang’s competing offers to acquire Starwood; Teladoc Health in its $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo Health; Trane Technologies in the $15 billion Reverse Morris Trust spin-off and merger of its industrial business with Gardner Denver Holdings; United Airlines in its merger of equals with Continental Airlines; World Wrestling Entertainment in its $21 billion merger transaction with Endeavor Group and UFC; and 3G Capital and H.J. Heinz in Heinz’s $60 billion merger with Kraft Foods.