Donald A. Bussard focuses his practice on advising corporations, boards of directors and board committees in connection with mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, stock issuances, stockholders’ meetings and relations, and corporate governance matters.
Don is the senior member of the Corporate Department’s transactional group. He is a contributing author to The Delaware Law of Corporations and Business Organizations, a multi-volume treatise on Delaware corporate law coauthored by Messrs. Balotti and Finkelstein of Richards, Layton & Finger.
Representative Experience
- Represented BHP Billiton in its acquisition of Houston-based Petrohawk Energy Corp. for $15.1 billion
- Represented Pharmasset Inc. in its acquisition by Gilead Sciences Inc. for $11 billion
- Represented the U.K.’s Ensco plc in its acquisition of Price International Inc. of Houston for $7.3 billion in cash and stock
- Represented Beckman Coulter Inc. in its acquisition by manufacturer Danaher Corp. for $6.8 billion
- Represented Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc. in its cash acquisition by Applied Materials Inc. for $4.9 billion
- Represented reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings Inc. in its acquisition by property and casualty insurer Alleghany Corp. for $3.5 billion in cash and stock
Prior Representative Experience
- Represented Wyeth in its acquisition by rival Pfizer for $68 billion
- Represented Mars, Incorporated in the acquisition of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. for nearly $23 billion
- Represented Marvel Entertainment in its $4 billion acquisition by Walt Disney Company
- Represented CBS Corporation in its $1.8 billion acquisition of CNET Networks Inc.
- Represented Microsoft in its proposed acquisition of Yahoo!
- Represented the DIRECTV Group, Inc. in its combination with Liberty Entertainment, Inc.