Michael Gilson
Lawyers
Associate in our Mergers & Acquisitions practice.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- Evergreen- and Brookfield-led consortium $16 billion acquisition of Nielsen
- TPG $1 billion IPO
- Olam Food Ingredients $950 million acquisition of Olde Thompson
- Reckitt Benckiser Group acquisition of Biofreeze
- Cerberus Capital Management investment in Comscore
- BRP Group acquisition of Burnham Benefits Insurance Services
- Sycamore Partners acquisition of certain brands from Ascena Retail Group
- Dufry $311 million going-private acquisition of Hudson
- Clarivate $6.8 billion combination with CPA Global
- Big Lots settlement with Macellum Advisors and Ancora Advisors
- GAIN Capital acquisition by INTL FCStone
- Davis Polk Advises Services Group of America on the Sale of Its Food Group of Companies to US Foods
- Davis Polk Advises Shire on Its Proposed Acquisition by Takeda
- SS&C Technologies $5.4 billion acquisition of DST Systems
- Davis Polk Advises TiGenix on Its Acquisition by Takeda
- Davis Polk Advises Silver Lake on Its $250 Million Investment in WPEngine
Education
LL.M., McGill University
B.A., Law, University of Cambridge
Professional history
- Davis Polk 2014-present
- London office, 2014-2016
Qualifications and admissions
- England and Wales
- State of New York