H. Oliver Smith
Lawyers
Wide-ranging M&A and private equity practice encompassing domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and restructuring transactions.
Oliver is a member of our Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practices. His wide-ranging practice encompasses domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and restructuring transactions.
Oliver regularly represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies in all aspects of their businesses.
Law360 named Oliver an “M&A MVP of the Year” in 2018.
Experience highlights
- ExxonMobil’s
- $59.5 billion acquisition of Pioneer
- $4.9 billion acquisition of Denbury
- IHS Markit’s:
- $44 billion merger with S&P Global
- $13 billion merger of equals between IHS and Markit
- $1.9 billion acquisition of Ipreo
- $1.2 billion sale of Oil Price Information Services
- sales of its Jane’s and Base Chemicals business
- Truist Financial’s:
- $2 billion acquisition of Service Finance Co.
- $1.95 billion sale of a stake in Truist Insurance to Stone Point Capital
- $1 billion sale of its equipment finance businesses
- Williams Companies’:
- $10.5 billion acquisition of the outstanding public common units of Williams Partners LP
- $1.5 billion acquisition of Mountain West natural gas transmission and storage business
- $1.1 billion sale of Williams Partners LP’s Four Corners Area business
- $950 million acquisition of the Haynesville gathering and processing assets of
Trace Midstream - $485 million sale of its 50% interest in Jackalope Gas Gathering Services
- $423 million acquisition of NorTex Midstream Holdings
- acquisition of the remaining interest in Caiman Energy II JV
- TPG’s:
- acquisitions of Convey Health Solutions, Centrify, Thycotic and Thomson Reuters’ Elite business
- pending acquisition of Forcepoint’s Global Governments and Critical Infrastructure business
- Francisco Partners and TPG’s pending $6.5 billion acquisition of New Relic
- Sterling Equities and the New York Mets on the sale of the Mets to Steven A. Cohen
- Aetna’s:
- $77 billion sale to CVS Health
- Terminated $37 billion acquisition of Humana and related divestitures to Molina
- $7.3 billion acquisition of Coventry Health Care
- Acquisitions of Bswift, Prodigy Health Group, Payflex Systems, Medicity and InterGlobal Group and its disposition of Missouri Care
- Uniti Group’s acquisitions of Southern Light, Hunt Telecom, PEG Bandwidth, Tower Cloud and Summit Wireless Infrastructure
- PwC’s:
- sales of Global Mobility Tax and Immigration Services and of its public sector government consulting practice
- formation of its Global Enterprise Tax Solutions Group comprised of the former GE Tax Group
- acquisition of Booz & Company
- Nutrisystem’s $1.3 billion acquisition by Tivity Health
- Services Group of America’s $1.8 billion sale of its five operating companies to US Foods
- Noble Group’s dispositions of its Global Oil Liquids, Noble America Gas & Power and Noble Americas Energy Solutions businesses
Insights
Credentials
Recognition
Law360 – “M&A MVP of the Year,” 2018
Chambers USA – Corporate/M&A, New York
IFLR1000 – M&A, United States
Education
J.D., Emory University School of Law
- with high honors
- Order of the Coif
- Articles Editor, Emory Law Journal
M.B.A., Emory University, Goizueta Business School
- with honors
B.A., Political Science, Williams College
Professional history
- Partner, 2012-present
- Associate, 2004-2012
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York