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Pankaj K. Sinha — Partner, Washington D.C. · Skadden · Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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I am the head of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. I concentrate in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and general corporate and securities matters. I have represented purchasers, sellers and their financial advisors in a wide variety of transactions, including public and private acquisitions and divestitures, negotiated and contested public acquisitions, auctions, going-private transactions, proxy fights, initial public offerings and other financings, and joint ventures and other strategic alliances.
I have advised clients in several cross-border transactions. Furthermore, I have experience in M&A transactions involving assets of companies in bankruptcy.
My pro bono representations include a group of teachers establishing a Washington, D.C. charter school, and The Wellness Community (TWC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support and education to those affected by cancer. In 2009, I advised TWC in its unique combination with Gilda’s Club, which was founded by Gilda Radner.
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Partner, Head of the Washington, D.C. OfficeCurrent
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates · Washington D.C. Metro Area
Oct 1990 – Present
The numerous mergers, acquisitions, financings and other corporate transactions in which I have participated and counseled clients include the representation of: • British Columbia Investment Management as part of an investor group, which includes Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets and John Hancock Financial, in the consortium’s $4.7 billion agreement to acquire Cleco Corporation; • Entergy Corporation in the $6 billion divestiture via a tax-free spin-off and subsequent merger of its electric transmission business into ITC Holdings Corp.; • The AES Corporation in its $3.5 billion agreement to acquire DPL Inc., a regional electric and utility company; • Allegheny Energy, Inc. in its $4.7 billion acquisition by FirstEnergy Corp. in a stock-for-stock merger; • DUET Group (Australia) in its agreement to sell a 29 percent indirect ownership interest in Pittsburgh-based DQE Holdings LLC (Duquesne Light Company) to the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC); • British Columbia Investment Management Corporation in its agreement to acquire a 33 percent interest in Connecticut-based Aquarion Water Company; • Société Générale in its acquisition of certain North American power and natural gas trading assets of Sempra Energy Trading, LLC, a joint venture owned by Royal Bank of Scotland and Sempra Energy; • The AES Corporation in its agreement with the China Investment Corporation (a sovereign wealth fund) pursuant to which CIC acquired a 15 percent equity interest in AES for $1.6 billion; • Mars, Incorporated in connection with various corporate matters; • Duke Energy Corporation in its 50/50 joint venture to develop solar energy projects with ENN Solar, a Chinese company; and • Entergy Corporation in the proposed spin-off of its non-utility nuclear business that will own approximately 5,000 MW of nuclear power generation in the U.S. (Enexus), as well as the creation of an operational joint venture (transaction was terminated).
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