Adam Cromie

ADAM CROMIE provides legal counsel to both public and private companies, as well as boards of directors, on a wide range of M&A transactional matters. He focuses his practice on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and both majority and minority investments. Adam’s advisory services span various industries, including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and sports and entertainment.

Before transitioning to private practice, Adam worked for Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals for nearly a decade.

Adam earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He also holds an M.S. from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a B.A. in economics from Allegheny College.

• Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) in a Reverse Morris Trust merger with GE Transportation, valued at US$11.1 billion.
• Evoqua (NYSE: AQUA) in its US$7.5 billion stock-for-stock merger with Xylem.
• Calgon Carbon Corporation (NYSE: CCC) in its US$1.1 billion merger with Kuraray Co., Ltd.
• Roper Technologies (NASDAQ:ROP) in its sale of a majority stake in its industrial businesses to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice for US$2.6 billion.
• Roper Technologies (NASDAQ: ROP) in the acquisition by its subsidiary, Aderant, of the legal technology assets from HerculesAI, an AI-driven billing compliance and decision intelligence company.
• U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) in its execution of an option agreement for Stelco Inc. to acquire a 25% interest in a to-be-formed joint venture that would own U.S. Steel’s iron ore mine located in Mt. Iron, Minnesota, valuing the mine at US$2.4 billion.
• DataBank in connection with the acquisition and financing of zColo for US$1.4 billion.
• Special committee of independent trustees of H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX: HR.UN) as independent U.S. counsel in connection with a review and consideration of strategic alternatives after receiving an unsolicited expression of interest.
• Lineage (NASDAQ: LINE), the world’s largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT, in its US$247.0 million acquisition of multiple, existing cold storage warehouses and related assets from Tyson Foods, Inc.
• FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) in its $2.4 billion sale to Brookfield of a 19.9% equity stake in its subsidiary FirstEnergy Transmission, the holding company for FirstEnergy’s three regulated electric transmission businesses.
• FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) in the sale of its minority interest in Signal Peak Energy, the operator of the largest underground coal mine in the United States.
• Vertex Aerospace, a portfolio company of American Industrial Partners, in its stock-for-stock merger with Vectrus, creating V2X (NYSE: V2X).
• American Industrial Partners in the acquisition by Vertex Aerospace of Raytheon Technologies’ Defense Training and Mission Critical Solutions Business lines.
• U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) in its sale of its short line railroad division, Transtar, to Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors for US$640 million.
• Corpay (NYSE: CPAY) in its acquisition of GPS Capital Markets.
• BioMarin (NADAQ: BMRN) in its entry into a cooperation agreement and information sharing agreement with Elliott Management.
• Matthews International Corporation (NASDAQ: MATW) in its entry into a settlement and consulting agreement with Barington Capital Group.

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