Scott Barshay

Scott A. Barshay is Global Head of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. His practice principally focuses on advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, activist defense and other significant corporate matters. Scott also regularly counsels corporations and their directors on securities law, corporate governance and crisis management issues. Scott represented clients in many of the biggest and highest-profile M&A transactions and activist defense matters in 2015 and 2016, including Anheuser-Busch InBev in its $107 billion acquisition of SABMiller; Cameron International in its $15 billion sale to Schlumberger; Cheniere Energy in an accumulation of over 12% of Cheniere's stock by Carl Icahn; Honeywell in its $90 billion proposal to acquire United Technologies; Mylan Pharmaceuticals in its successful takeover defense against Teva's $40 billion hostile bid and in Mylan's $35 billion hostile offer to acquire Perrigo; Qualcomm in the accumulation of more than $2.5 billion of Qualcomm's stock by activist hedge fund JANA Partners; Starwood Hotels in its contested pending $13.6 billion sale to Marriott International; Xerox in the accumulation of more than 7% of Xerox's stock by Carl Icahn and the separation of Xerox into two separate public companies; and 3G Capital and H.J. Heinz in the $60 billion Kraft/Heinz merger. J.D., Columbia Law School, 1991 B.A., Colgate University, 1988