Stuart C. Rogers

Stuart has represented the financial advisors to the following:

• Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. in its $1.65 billion acquisition of Veritas Capital portfolio company Alion Science and Technology.
• Hormel Foods Corporation in its $3.35 billion announced acquisition of Planters® from the Kraft Heinz Company.
• Parsley Energy in its $7.6 billion sale to Pioneer Natural Resources Company.
• Concho Resources in its $9.7 billion sale to ConocoPhillips.
• Builders FirstSource Inc. in its acquisition of BMC Stock Holdings Inc. valued at $2.5 billion.
• Intercontinental Exchange in its acquisition of Ellie Mae for cash and stock valued at $11 billion.
• 7-Eleven Inc. in its acquisition of Speedway LLC in a cash transaction valued at $21 billion.
• Chevron Corporation in the acquisition of Noble Energy valued at $13 billion.
• Coty Inc. in its majority sale of its professional beauty and retail hair businesses valued at $4.3 billion to KKR Funds.
• Leidos in its acquisition of the Security Detection and Automation Business of L3Harris Technologies valued at $1 billion.

• Harsco Corporation in its $592 million cash sale of its Air-X-Changers business to Chart Industries Inc.
• Empire Resorts Inc. in its sale of all the outstanding equity of Empire Resorts not currently owned by Kien Huat or its affiliates for approximately $925 million in cash.
• TheStreet Inc. in its cash sale to TheMaven Inc.
• Worldpay in its acquisition by Fidelity National Information Services in a $43 billion cash and stock transaction.
• Luxoft Holding Inc. in its $2 billion cash sale to DXC Technology.
• Cisco in its $660 million cash acquisition of Luxtera Inc.
• TheStreet Inc. in its $87.3 million sale of The Deal LLC to Euromoney.
• Golden State Foods in the sale of certain distribution centers to The Martin Brower Company.
• Encana Corporation in its $5.5 billion acquisition of Newfield Exploration Company.
• Encore Capital Group in its acquisition of a majority of Cabot Credit Management.
• Momentive Performance Materials in its acquisition by a consortium including Wonik QnC Corporation, KCC Corporation, and SJL Partners in a cash transaction valued at $3.1 billion.
• Ocean Rig UDW Inc. in its business combination with Transocean in a stock and cash transaction valued at $2.9 billion.
• Modular Space Holdings in its $1.1 billion acquisition by WillScot Corporation in a stock and cash transaction valued at $1.1 billion.
• Pinnacle Foods in its acquisition by Conagra Brands for cash and stock in a transaction valued at $10.9 billion.
• Taylor Morrison Home Corporation in its $963 million acquisition of AV Homes.
• ESCO Corporation in its acquisition by Weir plc in a stock and cash transaction valued at $1.285 billion.
• Nationstar Mortgage Holdings in its acquisition by WMIH Corp. for cash and stock in a transaction valued at approximately $4.8 billion.
• Ply Gem Holdings in its acquisition by an affiliate of Clayton Dubilier & Rice in a cash transaction valued at $2.4 billion.
• AmeriPride in its sale to Aramark in a cash transaction valued at $1 billion.
• Boyd Gaming in its separate acquisitions of Valley Forge Casino Resort and casino properties from Pinnacle.
• Spain’s Gas Natural in the sale of its Columbian business to Brookfield Infrastructure for approximately $568 million.
• WisdomTree Investments in its acquisition of ETF Securities’ European exchange-traded commodity, currency, and short-and-leveraged business for approximately $611 million.
• Aurora Flight Sciences in its sale to The Boeing Company.
• Itron in its acquisition of Silver Spring Networks for approximately $830 million in cash.
• Williams Scotsman in its sale to Double Eagle Acquisition Corp. for approximately $1.1 billion.
• CH2M HILL in its sale to Jacobs Engineering Group in a transaction valued at approximately $3.25 billion.
• Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) in its acquisition of Chiltern International Ltd. for approximately $1.2 billion in cash.
• McCormick & Company in its acquisition of Reckitt Benckiser Group’s Food Division in a transaction valued at approximately $4.2 billion.

Stuart Rogers is a partner in Alston & Bird’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group and Financial Advisors Team. Stuart focuses his practice on M&A and corporate finance, and he actively advises investment banks and financial advisors in M&A transactions. Before joining Alston & Bird, he was a managing director at Credit Suisse, where he led legal coverage for the Investment Banking & Capital Markets Division in the Americas and was lead counsel to Credit Suisse’s M&A financial advisory group and investment banking opinion/valuation committee. Stuart has a sophisticated command of matters affecting financial advisors, including opinion practice, conflicts management, and reputational risk. Stuart has been a regular speaker and panelist at industry conferences sponsored by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and was a member of FINRA’s Corporate Financing Committee.

Stuart graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in economics and government from Cornell University and was awarded Order of the Coif at New York University School of Law.

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• New York University (J.D., 1993)
• Cornell University (B.A., 1990)

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