Randi C Lesnick

Career

Randi Lesnick co-Chairs Jones Day’s Corporate Practice and Corporate Governance Team. Shas advised on M&A transactions with an aggregate value of over $300 billion. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, takeovers and takeover preparedness, restructurings, recapitalizations and securities transactions. Randi also regularly counsels boards of directors on governance matters, shareholder engagement, crisis management and activism defense.

Randi represents public and private companies in a variety of industries, with emphasis on technology, industrials, health care and life sciences, and retail and consumer products. Randi also advises private equity firms in their investments.

Randi’s transactions include advising Treehouse Foods in its $2.9 billion sale to InvestIndustial, Verint Systems in its $2 billion take private by an affiliate of Thoma Bravo; Payward Inc. (d/b/a Kraken) in its $1.5 billion acquisition of NinjaTrader; the Board of Directors of Catalent in the $16.5 billion merger of Catalent with Novo Holdings; Skyworks Solutions' $3 billion acquisition of Silicon Labs' Infrastructure and Automotive business; Verint's spin-off of its cyber intelligence business; SAP's $8 billion acquisition of Qualtrics; Patrón Spirits' sale to Bacardi for $5 billion enterprise value; and Reynolds American's $49 billion acquisition by British American Tobacco.

Randi was named a "Dealmaker of the Year" by American Lawyer and has been recognized as a Client Service All-Star, MVP and Super All-Star by BTI Consulting.