Brandon C. Price is a partner in the Corporate Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  His practice is primarily focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, capital-raising transactions, takeover defense and other corporate and securities law matters, with a concentration on banks and other financial services companies.

Recent publicly disclosed transactions include:

• CIBC in the $1.8 billion sale of CIBC Caribbean Bank to The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son
• Capital One in its $5.15 billion acquisition of Brex, its $35.3 billion acquisition of Discover and in numerous other transactions, including its $9 billion acquisition of ING Direct and its acquisition of HSBC’s $30 billion US credit card business and various credit card partnerships
• United Community Banks in its acquisitions of Peach State Bancshares, ANB Holdings, Inc. and First Miami Bancorp
• Heritage Commerce in its $811 million merger with CVB Financial
• Huntington in its $7.4 billion acquisition of Cadence Bank
• Dayforce in its $12.3 billion sale to Thoma Bravo
• Synovus in its $17 billion all-stock combination with Pinnacle Financial Partners and notes offerings for Synovus and, following the merger, Pinnacle
• DICK’S Sporting Goods in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Foot Locker
• Wells Fargo in the sale of the non-Agency third-party servicing segment of its Commercial Mortgage Servicing business to Trimont and the sale of its Shareowner Services business to Equiniti
• Entegris in the $285 million sale of its Pipeline and Industrial Materials business to SCF Partners
• Bank of Hawaii in its preferred stock offerings
• Greenhill in its $550 million sale to Mizuho
• DBO Partners in its sale to Piper Sandler Companies
• Westrock Coffee in its $1.1 billion going public transaction, its $405 million acquisition of S&D Coffee and various capital-raising transactions
• CMC Materials in its $6.5 billion sale to Entegris, its $1.6 billion acquisition of KMG Chemicals and its acquisition of International Test Solutions
• CardWorks in minority investments from private equity funds and in its terminated $2.65 billion sale to Ally Financial
• Cathay General Bancorp in its acquisition of HSBC’s West Coast branches, its acquisition of Far East National Bank and its acquisition of Asia Bancshares
• Independent Bank Corp. in its $1.15 billion all stock acquisition of Meridian Bancorp
• Thermo Fisher Scientific in its $550 million acquisition of Mesa Biotech and its terminated $12.5 billion acquisition of Qiagen NV
• BankUnited in its subordinated notes offering
• United Community in its $473 million strategic merger with First Defiance
• Sandler O’Neill in its merger with Piper Jaffray
• Pfizer in its $11.4 billion acquisition of Array Biopharma
• Revolution Plastics in its sale to Arsenal Capital Partners
• Fidelity Southern Corporation in its $751 million merger with Ameris Bancorp

Brandon Price has been named a Law360 MVP and one of the 500 Leading Dealmakers in America by Lawdragon.

Mr. Price received a B.S. in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 with highest honors and highest distinction and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.  He received a J.D. in 2006 magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law, where he was an articles editor of the New York University Law Review, a member of the Order of the Coif and a Pomeroy Scholar.