Daniel J. Belke

• Global consulting firm J.S. Held LLC in its acquisition of Luttrell Wegis LLP.
• Nektar Therapeutics in its US$90 million sale of its manufacturing facility and reagent supply business to Ampersand Capital Partners.
• Ridgeview Partners in its growth investment in IOT software and payment solutions provider PayRange.
• ContextLogic (NASDAQ: WISH) in its US$173 million sale of Wish Platform to Qoo10.
• Flex Ltd. (Nasdaq: FLEX) in its spinoff of its remaining interests in Nextracker Inc. (Nasdaq: NXT) to Flex shareholders on a pro rata basis.
• Houlihan Lokey, Inc. in its acquisition of Triago Management Development.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its US$4.4 billion take-private acquisition of Alteryx, Inc.
• Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) in its all-cash US$1.4 billion acquisition by an affiliate of STG.
• Flex Ltd. (Nasdaq: FLEX) and its Fremont, California-based solar technology subsidiary, Nextracker Inc. (Nasdaq: NXT), in its upsized US$734.2 million initial public offering, making it the largest IPO of 2023.
• UnitedHealth Group in the US$12.8 billion combination of subsidiary OptumRx and Catamaran Corporation, in connection with Optum’s US$4.3 billion acquisition of DaVita Medical Group (and related antitrust divestiture of certain DaVita assets to Intermountain Healthcare) and US$13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare and related matters.
• ASGN Incorporated in its acquisition of GlideFast Consulting from BV Investment Partners.
• Oaktree Capital Management in its investments in Aspiration and TPI Composites.
• Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corporation in the US$2.2 billion sale of their collective 45% interest in Sierra Gorda Copper S.C.M. (Chile) to South32.
• Amazon.com in its acquisitions of Whole Foods Market and PillPack.
• AT&T in its agreement with TPG Capital that established new DIRECTV to operate AT&T’s former U.S. video business unit and related transactions.
• Concho Resources in its US$13.7 billion acquisition by ConocoPhillips and US$9.5 billion acquisition of RSP Permian.
• Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) in its US$60 billion merger with Peugeot and its US$59.5 billion proposed combination with Groupe Renault (later withdrawn).
• Delta Air Lines in its strategic partnership with LATAM Airlines Group and related US$1.9 billion investment in LATAM.
• Merck KGaA in its US$6.4 billion acquisition of Versum Materials.
• Cheniere Energy in its acquisition of the publicly held shares of Cheniere Energy Partners LP Holdings, LLC not already owned by Cheniere.
• Enbridge in its US$43 billion acquisition of Spectra Energy.
• Gildan Activewear in its acquisitions of Alstyle Apparel and American Apparel.
• BBA Aviation in its US$2.1 billion acquisition of Landmark Aviation and related antitrust divestiture of certain Landmark assets to KSL Capital Partners.
• ZF Friedrichshafen in its US$12.4 billion acquisition of TRW Automotive Holdings.

Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.