Marc F. Sperber

• Represented TransCanada Corporation in its $13 billion acquisition of Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc.
• Represented The Dow Chemical Company in its $860 million sale of AgroFresh, Inc., a post-harvest specialty chemical business, to Boulevard Acquisition Corp.
• Represented The Dow Chemical Company in the $1.2 billion sale of ANGUS Chemical Company to Golden Gate Capital.
• Represented MATCO Holdings, LP (f/k/a P4 Holdings, LP) in the $667 million sale of its wholly owned subsidiary, Healthcare Solutions Holding, LLC to Cardinal Health, Inc.
• Represented George Weston Limited in its $2.5 billion divestiture of the US fresh bread and baked goods business of its subsidiary Dunedin Holdings S.à.r.l. to Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V.
• Represented TransCanada Corporation in its $2.9 billion acquisition of the Ravenswood Power Generating Facility from National Grid plc.
• Represented The Dow Chemical Company in connection with the formation of America Styrenics LLC, a joint venture with Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP involving assets from their respective polystyrene and styrene monomer businesses.
• Represented TransCanada Corporation in connection with its $3.4 billion acquisition from El Paso Corporation of ANR Pipeline Company, ANR Storage Company and an additional interest in Great Lakes Gas Transmission Limited Partnership (Great Lakes).
• Represented CBOT Holdings in connection with its $12 billion merger with Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings, as well as CBOT Holdings' review and consideration of an unsolicited proposal from Intercontinental Exchange.
• Represented Union Carbide Corporation in the sale of its 50 percent joint-venture interest in UOP LLC to Honeywell International Inc. for $865 million.
• Represented TransCanada Corporation in its $505 million acquisition of US Gen New England’s hydroelectric assets located on the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
• Represented TransCanada Corporation in its $1.703 billion acquisition of Gas Transmission Northwest Corporation, a subsidiary of National Energy & Gas Transmission, Inc.
• Represented George Weston Limited in its $610 million disposition of certain assets located in the western United States to Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V.
• Represented United NewVentures, Inc., a subsidiary of UAL Corp., in connection with its acquisition of MyPoints.com, Inc., through a cash tender offer and second-step merger.
• Represented George Weston Limited in its $1.765 billion acquisition of Bestfoods Baking Company, a subsidiary of Unilever.
• Represented The Dow Chemical Company in its $11.6 billion merger with Union Carbide Corporation.
• Represented Paging Network Inc. in its $1.9 billion merger with Arch Communications, Inc., which required a recapitalization of $1.2 billion of Paging Network's senior subordinated notes and a consent solicitation of a "pre-packaged" Chapter 11 reorganization.
• Represented Hull and Associates, LLC, in its $531 million acquisition by Goldman Sachs.
• Represented Case Corporation in its $4.3 billion merger with New Holland N.V., a subsidiary of Italy’s Fiat SpA. (represented Case Corporation as an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston).
• Represented ACE Limited in its $711 million acquisition of CAT Limited.
• Represented The Dow Chemical Company in its sale of the DowBrands businesses for more than $1 billion to S.C. Johnson & Son.
• Represented Leonard Green & Partners in their $310 million acquisition of approximately 160 community newspapers from Hollinger International.
• Represented The Dow Chemical Company in its sale of its controlling interest in Destec Energy to NGC for $970 million (part of the acquisition of all of Destec by NGC for approximately $1.27 billion).
• Represented ACE Limited in its $599 million acquisition of Tempest Reinsurance Company Limited, which involved a hostile bid from IPC Holdings, Inc., for Tempest.
• Represented Korea’s LG Electronics (Goldstar) in its $350 million acquisition of a majority interest in Zenith Electronics.
• Represented The Dow Chemical Company in its $7.1 billion sale of Marion Merrill Dow to Germany’s Hoechst AG.
• Represented Santa Fe Pacific Corporation in its $4.5 billion merger with Burlington Northern Inc., which involved hostile bid from rival railroad Union Pacific Corporation.

University of Rochester, BA, cum laude
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Georgetown University - The Robert Emmet McDonough School of Business, MBA

Georgetown University Law Center, JD, cum laude
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Barreau

• Illinois

• American Bar Association, Section of Corporation, Business, and Banking Law
• World Business Chicago, Legal Advisory Board