Robert B. Stebbins

Bob is a member of the American Bar Association and its M&A Committee, a member of the New York City Bar Association and its Securities Regulation Committee, and a member of the Society for Corporate Governance. He serves on the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance at New York University School of Law and is a frequent speaker at law schools, conferences and continuing education seminars. In 2022, he was named as a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel.

Bob has advised on the following selected significant transactions.

• Kaleyra, Inc. in its sale to Tata Communications. Prior to the sale Mr. Stebbins served as counsel to the Board of Directors of Kaleyra
• West Palm Golf Community Trust in various matters relating to The Park West Palm. Mr. Stebbins serves as counsel to the Board of Directors of West Palm Golf Community Trust
• A minority investor in a buyer group’s acquisition of a majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets from Michael Jordan
• Morgan Stanley as financial advisor to Horizon Therapeutics in its $27.8 billion acquisition by Amgen
• Varroc Engineering Ltd. in its €600 million sale of Varroc Lighting Systems to Plastic Omnium
• Point72 Asset Management, L.P. in the sale of its Bermuda-based reinsurance business, S.A.C. Re Ltd., to Hamilton Reinsurance Group
• Riverstone Holdings LLC, one of the major investors in Vantage Energy, in the sale of Vantage Energy I and II to Rice Energy, Inc.
• PayScale, Inc., a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, in its merger with MarketPay
• RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in its acquisition of common shares of Kingstone Companies, Inc. through a private placement
• Morgan Stanley as financial advisor to Allergan in connection with the proposed combination with Pfizer
• RegionalCare Hospital Partners, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, in its acquisition by Apollo Global Management
• RenaissanceRe Ltd. and its subsidiary, RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., in the subsidiary’s agreement to sell in an underwritten public offering $300 million aggregate principal amount of 3.700% senior notes, guaranteed by RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
• DaVinci Re, a joint venture of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., in a Rule 144 A debt offering
• Select Equity Group, L.P., a major shareholder in Shake Shack, in connection with Shake Shack’s IPO and follow-on offering. Also represented Select Equity Group in its initial investment in Shake Shack
• The management team of Legg Mason Investment Counsel & Trust Co., N.A. (LMIC) in Legg Mason’s sale of LMIC to Stifel Financial Corp.
• RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in the sale of RenRe Energy Advisors Ltd., its U.S.-based weather and energy unit, to Munich Re
• A cornerstone investor in BTS Group Holdings PCL's $2.13 billion initial public offering, the largest-ever IPO in Thailand
• A subsidiary of XL Group plc in connection with an investment in a newly formed investment manager and an investment in certain feeder funds managed by this entity
• XL Investments Ltd. in its investments in Five Oaks Investments Corp., a mortgage-based REIT which consummated its initial public offering
• Highbridge Capital Management’s multi-strategy fund in the sale to two investor groups of the fund’s equity interests in Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy, LLC, a joint venture formed by the Louis Dreyfus Group and Highbridge Capital Management’s multi-strategy fund
• Bidding group in the auction for the Los Angeles Dodgers
• Varroc Group in its acquisition of Visteon Corp.’s automotive lighting business
• Morgan Stanley in connection with Linde’s $3.8 billion acquisition of Lincare
• Fiat in its acquisition of the equity interests in Chrysler of The United States Department of the Treasury and the Canadian government
• Fiat in its acquisitions from Chrysler of additional equity interests in Chrysler, raising Fiat’s percentage ownership of Chrysler above 50%
• RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in the sale of its U.S. insurance business to QBE Holdings, Inc.
• Minority investors in the purchase of equity interests in the New York Mets
• RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in various offerings of common stock, senior notes and preference shares
• Sbarro, Inc. in its acquisition by MidOcean
• Shurgard Storage Center in its merger with Public Storage
• Major League Baseball as to the sale of the Washington Nationals franchise
• Carrix, Inc. in connection with an investment by Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Partners Inc.
• New Plan Excel Realty Trust in the sale of community and neighborhood shopping centers to Galileo America LLC
• Simon Property Group in its acquisition of Chelsea Property Group
• Simon Property Group in its proposed tender offer to acquire shares of Taubman Centers
• Developers Diversified Realty Corporation in its acquisition of JDN Realty Corporation
• Major League Baseball in its purchase of the Montreal Expos baseball franchise
• Simon Property Group in the acquisition by Simon, The Rouse Company and Westfield America Limited Partnership of Rodamco North America, N.V.
• Warburg Pincus in the sale of portfolio company Fame Information Services
• Warburg Pincus in the sale of portfolio company Kiodex
• Major League Baseball in its satellite radio contract with XM Satellite Radio
• The Atlantic Coast Conference in its football television and basketball contracts with ESPN
• The United States Golf Association as to matters involving the International Golf Federation
• Investors in connection with National City Corporation’s $7 billion capital raise
• Warburg Pincus in connection with investments in various companies, including Dude Solutions, PayScale Holdings, BlueGrace Group, Slickdeals Holdings, Alignment Healthcare, Yodlee, Inc., Vector Development, Fame Information Services and Envirogen, Inc.
• Point72 and Steven A. Cohen in connection with various corporate matters, including preparation of PPMs, side letters, lead investment documents, and debt and equity offering documents
• Voyager Space in debt financing transactions
• ExodusPoint Capital Management in various matters