Christopher Glenn
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Christopher Glenn

Partner

Email

christopher.glenn@aoshearman.com

Phone

+1 212 848 7258

Offices

New York

V-CARD
Chris represents our clients in complex transactions involving public and private companies, minority investments, proxy contests, unsolicited proposals, and strategic partnerships, including joint ventures.

He has extensive experience advising buyers, sellers, special committees of independent directors, and other key stakeholders in U.S. and cross-border M&A transactions. Chris’s work spans a wide range of industries and includes negotiated and contested acquisitions of public companies, sales of private businesses and divisions, private equity investments, joint venture formations and dissolutions, and asset dispositions.

Chris also frequently advises investment banking firms in their role as financial advisors, including the preparation and delivery of fairness opinions.

In addition to his transactional practice, Chris has served as co-chair of the firm’s Black attorneys’ inclusion network and has contributed to the firm’s pro bono efforts, including work with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • BioNTech in its $800 million acquisition of Zhuhai-based biotech company Biotheus.
  • Exscientia plc in its stock-for-stock combination with biotech company Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Fenway Sports Group in various transactional matters, including its:
    - financial and strategic collaboration with PGA TOUR Enterprises, alongside a consortium of American sports team owners;
    - sale of a minority interest in Liverpool FC to Dynasty Equity;
    - acquisition of a controlling interest in Boston Common Golf, a professional golf team participating in the TGL (Tomorrow’s Golf League);
    - acquisition of a controlling interest in the Pittsburgh Penguins;
    - extension of its partnership with LeBron James and sports executive Maverick Carter through an investment in LRMR Ventures LLC.
  • Orion Resource Partners in its sale of minority stakes in Sweetwater Royalties, a base metals and industrial minerals royalty company, to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and another Canadian pension fund.
  • JetBlue Airways Corp. in its $3.8 billion attempted acquisition of Spirit Airlines, which included a hostile takeover bid and “vote no” proxy campaign against Spirit’s proposed $2.9 billion merger with Frontier Group.
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in various transactional matters, including its:
    - sale of Meadowbrook Insurance Agency assets to Arthur J. Gallagher; and
    - $740 million acquisition of AmeriTrust Group, Inc. from Fosun International Limited.
  • A multinational conglomerate in various transactional matters, including its:
    - acquisition of Nexus Controls from Baker Hughes;
    - $32 billion merger of its Oil & Gas business with Baker Hughes Incorporated; and
    - $630 million sale of MRA Systems to ST Engineering.
  • A biomedical and biotechnology company in various transactional matters, including its $1.75 billion acquisition of Baylis Medical Company.
  • A private equity firm in its acquisition of Innovyze, Inc. from Stantec Inc.
  • Dassault Systèmes S.E. in its acquisitions of Exa Corporation and a majority stake in Centric Software.
  • Indian Hotels Company (Tata Group) in the sale of its interest in the Taj Boston Hotel to AS Holdings LLC.
  • American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. in its $1.6 billion cash and stock acquisition of Metaldyne Performance Group Inc.
  • A global chemical company in its $5 billion Reverse Morris Trust transaction with Olin Corporation for its Chlor-Alkali and Derivatives business.
  • A group of global financial institutions as financial advisors in a variety of high-profile M&A transactions.

Qualifications

Admissions

New York (2014)

Academic

Columbia University, B.A., 2007

Washington University in St. Louis, J.D., 2013

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.