Paul L Choi

Practice Areas

PAUL CHOI is the global co-leader of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He is also a co-leader of the firm’s public company advisory group. 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, stockholder activism situations 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 $29 billion acquisition by an investor group controlled by KKR. He assisted eBay Inc. in its $2.0 billion sale of Skype Technologies and represented Discover Financial Services in its $600 million acquisition of The Student Loan Corporation. He advised International Game Technology in its $6.4 billion sale to GTECH S.p.A. He represented Recall Holdings Limited in its cross-border $2.6 billion sale to Iron Mountain Inc. He recently advised West Corporation in its $5.1 billion sale to funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC.

Paul has also advised on numerous spinoff transactions, including First Data on its $14 billion spinoff of the Western Union Company and the $15.8 billion spinoff of Discover Financial Services from Morgan Stanley. He advised on the $10.2 billion spinoff of Yum China Holdings, Inc. from Yum! Brands, Inc., the $3.2 billion spinoff of Apergy Corporation from Dover Corporation, the $2.5 billion spinoff of Knowles Corporation from Dover Corporation, the $2.0 billion demerger of Recall Holdings from Brambles Limited and the $900 million spinoff of Herc Holdings Inc. from the Hertz Global Holdings, Inc.