Alexandra J. McCormack

Alexandra McCormack’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and other securities and corporate law matters. Ms. McCormack advises public and private companies, private equity firms and hedge funds in U.S. and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, mergers of equals, joint ventures and other transactions. her work in representing clients such as:

• Permira Funds in several transactions, including the $1.9 billion sale of an 80 percent stake in its portfolio company Netafim Ltd. (Israel) to Mexichem, S.A.B. de C.V. (Mexico); and its acquisition of Lyophilization Services of New England, Inc.;
• Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. in its $1 billion acquisition of a controlling equity stake in Silversea Cruises;
• MC-21 Corporation (Puerto Rico) in its combination with ProCare Rx;
• WellDyne, Inc. in its sale of pharmacy benefit manager WellDyneRx, Inc. to The Carlyle Group;
• Rite Aid Corporation in its agreement to be acquired by Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.; and its $2 billion acquisition of EnvisionRx from TPG Capital and other owners;
• Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. (and The Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Permira Funds and TPG Capital) in Freescale’s merger with NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Netherlands) for a combined enterprise value of $40 billion;
• the independent directors of Chrysler Group LLC in the $4.35 billion acquisition by Fiat S.p.A. (Italy) of the minority interests owned by the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust;
• The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. in its divestiture of International Derivatives Clearing Group, LLC to LCH.Clearnet Group Limited (United Kingdom); and its formation of The Portal Alliance LLC, a trading platform for 144A securities, together with nine leading securities firms;
• The Broad Institute, Inc. in its genomic research joint venture with the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
• Citigroup Inc. in the $3.7 billion exchange of its asset management business for the private client and capital markets businesses of Legg Mason, Inc.; and

Ms. McCormack also advises the firm’s investment banking clients in transactional and financial advisory work.

Education:

• J.D., Harvard Law School, 2003
• A.B., Harvard University, Harvard College, 2000 (magna cum laude, with highest honors in Literature)

Admissions:

• Massachusetts
• New York