Paul L Choi

Practice Areas

PAUL CHOI is the global co-leader of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice, co-leader of the firm’s Public Company Advisory group, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions and securities and corporate governance matters.

In the mergers and acquisitions area, he focuses on public and private mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spinoffs and joint ventures. His practice also includes counseling clients on takeover defense and proxy contests. Paul has advised on a broad range of mergers and acquisitions transactions, from small private transactions to public multi-billion dollar mergers. He has advised on dozens of public company merger deals, including representing First Data Corporation on its US$29 billion acquisition by an investor group controlled by KKR. He assisted eBay Inc. in its US$2.0 billion sale of Skype Technologies and represented Discover Financial Services in its US$600 million acquisition of The Student Loan Corporation. He advised International Game Technology in its US$6.4 billion sale to GTECH S.p.A. He represented Recall Holdings Limited in its cross-border US$2.6 billion sale to Iron Mountain Inc. He recently advised IGT in its pending spin-off of its global gaming and PlayDigital units and the combination of such businesses with Everi Holdings, Inc. in a $6.2 billion transaction.