Robert P. Davis is a partner based in the New York office.
Mr. Davis's practice focuses on a broad range of corporate and financial matters, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, acquisition financings, international securities offerings, corporate restructurings and reorganizations, and other financial transactions, with particular focus on the telecommunications, healthcare, airline and retail industries.
Mr. Davis is distinguished as one of the best corporate M&A lawyers by
Chambers USA and
The Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. Davis’s recent matters include representation of:
- Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of CFHC Holdings, including Consolidated Precision Products;
- Warburg Pincus and Vestar Capital in their acquisition of Triton Container International;
- Warburg Pincus in its $438.2 million (excluding debt) acquisition of Rural/Metro Corporation;
- Barclays Capital in the purchase of Lehman Brothers' U.S. and Canadian investment banking and capital markets businesses and its Manhattan headquarters and certain other real estate;
- the Master Executive Council of the airline pilots of Delta Air Lines in connection with the merger of Delta with Northwest Airlines;
- T-Mobile USA in its $2.4 billion acquisition of SunCom Wireless;
- Warburg Pincus in its $4.5 billion acquisition of Bausch & Lomb;
- Ricoh in its strategic alliance and eventual purchase of IBM’s printing systems division, Infoprint Solutions Company;
- the Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG in their $11.4 billion acquisition of Biomet;
- TPG in its acquisition of Aleris International;
- TPG and Warburg Pincus in their acquisition of Neiman Marcus;
- American Tower with respect to a number of its financing activities;
- Goldman Sachs in establishing its William Street loan commitment program and related transactions with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group.
Mr. Davis joined the firm in 1978 and became a partner in 1986. From 1993 through 1995, he was resident in the Hong Kong office. Mr. Davis received a J.D. degree,
magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 1978, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He received an undergraduate degree,
cum laude, from Yale University.
Mr. Davis is a member of the Bar in New York and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.