Scott Golenbock

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Golenbock’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate and securities law matters, and he has been involved in negotiated and hostile acquisitions, cross-border transactions, divestitures, joint ventures, spin-offs, corporate restructurings and corporate governance matters. He has advised public and private companies in a variety of industries, including hospitality, gaming, health care, energy, financial services, retail and technology, as well as financial sponsors.

Some of his notable representations include:

• Pzena Investment Management in the successful completion of its going-private transaction
• SEACOR Holdings in its $1 billion sale to an affiliate of American Industrial Partners
• Molina Healthcare in its $600 million acquisition of Brand New Day and Central Health Plan from Bright Health Group, as well as its acquisitions of Affinity Health Plan, MyChoice Wisconsin and AgeWell New York
• ORBCOMM, a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, in its $1.1 billion sale to GI Partners
• Era Group in its all-stock combination with Bristow Group
• PENN Entertainment in the $1 billion acquisition of the Greektown Casino-Hotel in Detroit with VICI Properties and its $360 million acquisition of Tropicana Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
• Mercuria Energy Group in its $340 million acquisition of the North America gas and power business of Noble Group and its acquisition of Aegean Marine Petroleum Network
• Revlon in its $870 million acquisition of Elizabeth Arden
• Nabors in the $1.4 billion spin-off and merger of its completion and production services business with C&J Energy Services and its $216 million acquisition of Tesco Corporation
• Hudson Executive Investment Corp., a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Hudson Executive Capital LP, in connection with its $1.4 billion combination with Talkspace, a digital and virtual behavioral healthcare company
• Mood Media in its sale to an affiliate of Vector Capital
• Wastequip, a Centerbridge portfolio company, in its sale to H.I.G. Capital
• Affinitas, which operates premium dating platforms such as EliteSingles, in its cross- border, all-stock combination with Spark Networks, owner of specialized online communities such as JDate and ChristianMingle
• The special committee of Genco Shipping & Trading Limited in Genco’s acquisition of Baltic Trading Limited
• Magazina Luiza in its acquisition of online retailer Netshoes, in the face of hostile bids from third parties following an agreed transaction
• HudBay Minerals in its $510 million hostile acquisition of Augusta Resources
• PENN Entertainment in the separation and spin-off of its real property assets as a REIT
• TowerBrook Capital Partners in its $835 million acquisition of True Religion Apparel
• Chicago Bridge & Iron in its $3.1 billion acquisition of The Shaw Group
• Kering in its $600 million acquisition of Volcom and the $740 million sale of its Redcats USA businesses
• Alibaba Group in a transaction with Yahoo! and SoftBank to restructure control of Alibaba Group’s former Alipay.com subsidiary
• Ventas in its $7.4 billion acquisition of Nationwide Health Properties, its $3.1 billion acquisition of Atria Senior Living’s senior housing portfolio and the formation of a joint venture that later acquired the rest of Atria Senior Living
• Morgan Stanley in the formation of its Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture with Citigroup and its subsequent acquisition of Citigroup’s stake
• Chatham Lodging Trust, in a joint venture with Cerberus Capital Management, in its acquisition of 69 hotels for $1.3 billion in Innkeepers USA Trust’s bankruptcy auctions
• Simon Property Group in its $31.6 billion offer to acquire General Growth Properties
• Public Storage in its successful $5 billion hostile acquisition of Shurgard and the subsequent sale of a $600 million joint venture interest in its Shurgard Europe business
• Kimco in its $4 billion acquisition of the Pan Pacific shopping center REIT
• Morgans Hotel Group in its $1.5 billion acquisition and financing of the Hard Rock Hotel/Las Vegas

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Golenbock graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2005, where he served as a senior editor of The Yale Law Journal.

Mr. Golenbock has been recognized by The Legal 500, IFLR Notable Practitioner, and Super Lawyers.  He is also an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School, where he teaches a course on Mergers and Acquisitions.