F. Adam Abulawi
Lawyers
Advises U.S. and international corporate and private equity clients on a full range of public and private transactions.
Adam advises U.S. and international clients on a broad range of public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and shareholder activism matters. His experience includes investments, joint ventures, carve-outs and other general corporate transactions. He also represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a full range of transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of investments, leveraged buyouts and minority investments.
Experience
Public and Strategic Company Transactions
- Advanced Drainage Systems on its $1 billion acquisition of National Diversified Sales
- Prosus on its $1.7 billion acquisition of Despegar.com
- ATSG on its $3.1 billion sale to Stonepeak
- Royalty Pharma on its $1.1 billion acquisition of its external manager and $3 billion share repurchase
- Allegro MicroSystems:
- Defense of an unsolicited proposal by onsemi
- Repurchase of 39 million shares held by Sanken Electric
- $420 million acquisition of Crocus Technology
- Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Sculptor Capital Management on its $719 million sale to Rithm Capital*
- Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Eargo, Inc. on its sale to Patient Square Capital
- Silver Spike Capital and Silver Spike Investment Corp. in its joint venture with Chicago Atlantic and loan portfolio acquisition from a Chicago Atlantic-managed fund
- Teoxane on its proposal to acquire Revance Therapeutics
- The New Home Company on its $338 million sale to Apollo Global Management*
- Syneos Health on its acquisition of RxDataScience*
Private Equity Transactions
- Partners Group and Barings on Milestone Equipment Holdings’ sale of its chassis leasing business to ITE Management L.P.
- Durational Capital Management on its strategic investment in Garage Beer
- Bansk Group on its $1.5 billion take-private acquisition of PetIQ
- Gurnet Point Capital on its $890 million take-private acquisition of Radius Health*
- Partners Group on its $2.2 billion acquisition of DiversiTech from Permira*
- Searchlight Capital Partners on its take-private acquisition of Hemisphere Media Group*
- ArcLight Capital on its acquisition of Puerto Rico solar operations from Sonnedix*
SPAC Transactions
- Securitize on its $1.25 billion combination with Cantor Equity Partners II
Restructuring
- Spirit Airlines on its prearranged chapter 11 filing
* Selected representations prior to joining Davis Polk
Education
J.D., University of Texas at Austin School of Law
- with honors
- Staff Editor, Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law
B.B.A., Accounting, University of Houston
- magna cum laude
Prior experience
- Associate, Latham & Watkins, 2021-2023
- Senior Director, Charter Communications, 2020-2021
- Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 2016-2020
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York