Oscar David
Partner
Co-Chair, Consumer Products Industry Group
Regularly recognized as one of the country's top attorneys in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate finance, and joint venture work, Oscar is a co-chair of the firm's Consumer Products Industry Group, and he was formerly chair of the firm’s M&A, Securities, and Corporate Governance practice. He serves as a trusted, strategic advisor to his clients and their C Suite executives and boards of directors. His clients include major public and privately-held businesses, family held businesses and private equity funds.
Key Matters
- Under his leadership, Winston & Strawn has represented Motorola Solutions in a variety of consummated transactions, including:
- US$3.5B divestiture of its enterprise business to Zebra Technologies
- US$1.1B divestiture of its wireless network infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks
- US$1.1B purchase of equity from Carl Icahn
- US$3.9B Symbol Technologies acquisition
- US$300M equity investment in Clearwire Corporation as part of an aggregate US$1B investment by Intel Capital and investors
- US$1.6B divestiture of its semiconductor components chip group and a number of equity investment and securities transactions.
- Represented Corning Incorporated in connection with various transactions and corporate governance matters including:
- Disposition of Cormetech, Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high-quality environmental catalysts and services for the power, marine, industrial-process, refinery, and petrochemical markets (Oscar also represented Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Corning's JV partner in Cormetech, in the transaction)
- Acquisition of life sciences company Vacca Biologics
- Acquisition of TR Manufacturing, a provider of fiber-optic and copper cable/components and electro-mechanical assemblies to OEMs in various technology industries.
- Represented Abbott Laboratories in its ground-breaking joint venture with New Zealand-based Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd in China, which will operate a hub of dairy farms.
- Represented 4C Insights, a data science software company, in the acquisition of Netherlands-based Teletrax and various equity issuances.
- Represented The Vistria Group in its acquisition of a company in the K – 12 education delivery content and procurement services business.
- Represented Fairfax Media Limited, a public company based in Australia, and Illinois-based Farm Progress in connection with the sale of Farm Progress to private equity owned Penton Media.
- Represented Waud Capital Partners in the recapitalization of Maxum Petroleum, and in connection with a controlling investment in Maxum by an affiliate of Pilot Travel Centers.
- Represented venture capital firms and corporate venture investors in more than two dozen venture capital financings as well as various exit transactions.