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 transactions include:

• Capital One in 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
• Greenhill in its $550 million sale to Mizuho
• United Community Banks in its pending acquisition of First Miami Bancorp
• DBO Partners in its sale to Piper Sandler Companies
• Westrock Coffee in its $1.1 billion going public transaction and its $405 million acquisition of S&D Coffee
• 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
• Bank of Hawaii in its preferred stock offering
• 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
• NextEra Energy in its $6.5 billion acquisition of Gulf Power Company, Florida City Gas and the Stanton and Oleander Power Projects from The Southern Company
• First Evanston Bancorp in its sale to Byline Bancorp
• Wells Fargo & Company in the sale of its Shareowner Services business to Equiniti Group
• CIT Group in the $10 billion sale of its aircraft leasing business to Avolon Holdings, the sale of its aircraft leasing joint ventures to Tokyo Century and its $3.4 billion acquisition of OneWest Bank
• Itaú Unibanco in its acquisition of Citigroup’s Brazilian consumer banking business and in the merger of Itaú’s Chilean and Colombian operations with CorpBanca

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.