Will Yavinsky

Will Yavinsky

Partner Corporate & Finance

Washington, D.C.

+1 202 637 6540

[email protected]

Languages

English, Spanish

Will Yavinsky

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Will Yavinsky focuses his corporate practice on U.S. and international business transactions. He represents strategic companies, financial sponsors, and other investors on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships, and strategic alliances. He particularly enjoys assisting clients on cross-border and domestic transactions involving new markets, technologies and deal structures to achieve their business objectives.

Will is Co-Head of our global Automotive and Mobility sector, which is consistently recognized for excellence including as the only firm ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA in the Transportation: Road (Automotive) category since its inception.

Will helps design and implement legal project management tools and techniques to deliver client service effectively and efficiently. He also lectures annually on corporate law at Duke University Law School. While in law school at Georgetown University Law Center, Will worked on cross-border legal matters as a law clerk for a leading Argentine law firm in Buenos Aires.

Will's pro bono legal services and community engagement include advice and support in the areas of the arts, child development and education, housing and community development, immigrant and refugee matters, and veterans support organizations.

Representative experience

Aéroports de Paris on its investment in Lanza Jet; its acquisition of Merchant Aviation; and, together with Embassair, the sale of the Embassair Opa-Locka FBO in Miami to JHSF Participações.

Affinia Group in the sales of its global brake, chassis, and filtration businesses, for total enterprise value of over US$1.5bn.

Airbus Defense and Space in the sale of its thermal management systems subsidiary Fairchild Controls Corporation to Triumph Group.

AMG Critical Materials N.V. on the sale of Graphit Kropfmühl GmbH to Asbury Carbons, Inc.

Arlington Industries Group, a portfolio company of Cartesian Capital Group, on its acquisition of the Wahler Thermostat business from BorgWarner.

ARX Communications, a privately held, international telecommunications service and infrastructure company, in a variety of acquisitions, commercial arrangements, and public procurement matters.

Caterpillar as a seconded in-house lawyer supporting M&A, commercial agreements, IP development, and licensing matters to mitigate legal risk and provide solutions to protect the company's interests.

Corning in its acquisition of the pharmaceutical glass tubing business of Gerresheimer AG.

Delaware North on the sale of its Travel Hospitality Services airport food, beverage, and retail business, comprising operations across 22 U.S. airports, to Areas.

Dell Technologies Inc. on the sale of the global RSA business to a consortium, on the sale of the IT services business known as Dell Services to NTT DATA, and on its acquisition of Data Frameworks.

Eaton on the global separation and reorganization of its Vehicle and eMobility segments for their contemplated combination with Dana to create a publicly traded company valued at over US$10bn.

Ford Motor Company in its sales of Volvo Cars to Geely for US$1.8bn, and Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors for US$2.3bn.

Gemalto N.V. in its acquisition of SafeNet, Inc., a worldwide leader in data protection and software monetization, for US$890m.

IBM on the acquisitions of Ahana Cloud, Agyla, Apptio, Manta Software, Equine Global, IntelliMagic, Pliant.io, HashiCorp and SIXworks, among other strategic transactions.

IBM on the global separation and reorganization of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc., its managed infrastructure services business, prior to the spin-off of Kyndryl into a separate publicly traded company.

Kyndryl on its acquisition of Skytap, a leading specialized workload services provider.

Ruder Finn, a global communications and creative agency, on several acquisitions of communications and marketing firms.

Saint-Gobain on the sale of its Crystals and Detectors business to a consortium led by SK Capital Partners and Edgewater Capital Partners, and on the acquisition of U.S. refractory producer Monofrax.

The Independents, a global agency group, on its acquisitions of the 2 X 4, MA+ Group and Prodject agencies.

TRATON SE, a subsidiary of Volkswagen and global manufacturer of commercial vehicles, on its strategic equity investment in TuSimple, a leading developer of autonomous trucks and related technology.