Steven J. Williams

Steven J. Williams's representative experience includes advising:

Corporate Transactions and Advisory

• Aptiv in the formation of a $4 billion autonomous-driving joint venture with Hyundai Motor Group.
• Barnes & Noble in its sale to an affiliate of Elliott Management.
• Chico’s FAS in its successful proxy contest against Barington Capital.
• Citigroup in the sale of Nikko Asset Management to Sumitomo Trust.
• International Strategy & Investment Group in its sale to Evercore.
• Janus Capital Group in its strategic alliance with Dai-ichi Life.
• Tencent Holdings in its going-private acquisition of eLong.

Major Mergers & Acquisitions

• Angelo Gordon in its $2.7 billion sale to TPG.
• Chambers Street Properties as counsel to the board in its $5.7 billion merger of equals with Gramercy Property Trust.
• General Motors Co. in its $3.45 billion acquisition of SoftBank’s stake in Cruise.
• IBM in its $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp.
• Resolute Forest Products in its $2.7 billion sale to The Paper Excellence Group.
• RXO in its $1.025 billion acquisition of Coyote Logistics from UPS.

Strategic Spins, Sales & Splits

• General Electric in the spin-offs of GE Healthcare and GE Vernova, and the launch of GE Aerospace.
• Honeywell International in the spin-off of its Transportation Systems business to form Garrett Motion.
• Spectrum Brands in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Armored AutoGroup and its acquisition of Procter & Gamble’s European Pet Food business.
• XPO Logistics in the separation of its tech-enabled brokered transportation services from its LTL business.

Defense and Government Sales

• Harris Corporation in the sale of its Government IT Services business to Veritas Capital.
• L3Harris Technologies in the $1 billion sale of its Airport Security and Automation business to Leidos Holdings.