Jon Lyman

Representative Experience

• Represented Magseis ASA, a Norwegian public company and leading provider of ocean bottom seismic systems and services, on the $233 million acquisition of the Seismic Technologies business from Fairfield Geotechnologies, resulting in a new combined company known as Magseis Fairfield
• Represented Platinum Equity in a high-yield offering of $280 million 9.00% senior secured notes, as part of the acquisition financing of UK-based Pattonair Holdings Limited
• Represented Highline Aftermarket, a portfolio company of The Sterling Group, in its definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of New Service Champ Holdings, Inc.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures

• Represented Liberty Oilfield Services, a Riverstone Holdings portfolio company, in its acquisition of the U.S. fracturing, coiled tubing and cementing assets of Canadian Sanj el Corporation
• Represented CMA CGM Group in its agreement to acquire Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), Southeast Asia’s largest container shipping company, from majority shareholder Temasek and affiliates
• Represented Morgan Stanley as financial advisor to Allergan in its agreement to combine with Pfizer for an enterprise value of approximately $160 billion
• Represented Platinum Equity in the financing of Platinum’s acquisition of French company WFS Global Holding from LBO France Gestion
• Represented NXMH, a Belgium-based investment company wholly owned by South Korea’s NXC Corporation, in its acquisition of Stokke, a Norwegian children’s furniture manufacturer
• Represented Belgo-Dutch Fortis in the €71 billion consortium takeover of ABN AMRO, at the time the largest financial takeover in history
• Represented French defense and technology company Thales SA in the contested €150 million sale of its electronic payment unit to Hypercom
• Represented Dutch payment security provider Gemalto N.V. in its €1.8 billion tender offer for and resulting merger with Luxembourg SEC registrant Gemplus International S.A.
• Represented French energy company Toreador Resources in its oil exploration joint venture with Hess Oil France SAS, a subsidiary of Hess Corporation, including $120 million work program.
• Represented Toreador Resources in the coordinated disposition of its Hungarian and Turkish energy exploratory businesses.
• Represented UK insurer Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc in its £584million cash tender offer for Danish insurer Codan A/S.
• Represented French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis in the €183 million sale of its stake in French chemicals company Rhodia in an institutional placement.
• Represented Total S.A. as controlling shareholder of Sanofi-Synthelabo on Sanofi’s €55 billion acquisition of Aventis.
• Represented funds related with Soros Fund Management in the acquisition of an interest in the Immingham coal plant in the UK from Vitol SA, and its related financing.

Capital Markets

• Represented Platinum Equity and French airport services company WFS Global Holding in a high-yield notes offering of an additional €50 million of WFS’s 9.50% senior secured notes
• Represented Platinum Equity and French company WFS Global Holding in a high-yield notes offering to fund WFS’s acquisition of CAS Group Intermediate Holdings
• Represented CMA GCM Group in its €550 million offering of 7.75% senior notes due 2021 and €175 million tap issuance of additional senior notes
• Represented Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in its €2 billion multi-tranche Eurobond offering
• Represented Private equity Fund BC Partners and UK estate agent Foxtons plc on Foxtons £390 million initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange
• Represented French shipper CMA CGM in its $945 million high-yield bond offering listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, and related refinancing of $5oo million of existing outstanding senior notes
• Represented Israeli Teva Pharmaceutical in its institutional offering of €1 billion of 2.875% senior notes and CHF 450 million of 1.500% senior notes
• Represented Bank syndicate led by Commerzbank and Morgan Stanley on the €460 million rights issue of German private hospital operator RHON-KLINKUM AG listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Munich Exchange
• Represented German reinsurer Munich Re on the €107 million block trade sale of its equity holding in the UK’s Admiral Group Plc.
• Represented Toreador Resources in its concurrent $27.2 million SEC-registered public offering of shares listed on Nasdaq and its $31.6 million aggregate principal amount private offering new convertible senior notes and related bond exchange
• Represented Fortis in its €13.5 billion rights offering
• Represented Underwriters CSFB and Morgan Stanley in the $3.5 billion equity convertible debt and rights offering for Swiss Re.
• Represented Schneider Electric in its €1 billion rights offering

Speaking Engagement

• Guest Lecturer, “Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions,” Universite Paris II Pantheon-Assas

In the News

• Quoted, “Although Transactions Have Chilled, Some Fla. Dealmakers See Warming Conditions,” ALM Law, September 5, 2023

Publications

• Co-Author, “Takeover Regimes: A Comparison between the UK and the U.S.,” Practical Law Institute

News

• May 8, 2023 Greenspoon Marder Expands Corporate Practice with Addition of Partner Jon Lyman