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, retail, real estate, energy, financial services, education/publishing and technology, as well as financial sponsors.

Some of his notable representations include:

• ORBCOMM, a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, in its $1.1 billion sale to GI Partners
• 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
• SEACOR Holdings in its $1 billion sale to an affiliate of American Industrial Partners 
• Molina Healthcare in its $380 million acquisition of Affinity Health Plan
• Era Group in its all-stock combination with Bristow Group
• Penn National Gaming 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
• 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 National Gaming 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
• United Technologies in the sale of its pump and engine control systems business
• Penn National Gaming in its $610 million acquisition of Harrah’s St. Louis from Caesars Entertainment and its $900 million acquisition of the M Resort in Las Vegas
• Kering in its $600 million acquisition of Volcom and the sale of its Redcats USA businesses for $740 million
• 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
• Penn National Gaming in its terminated $8.9 billion buy-out by Fortress Investment Group LLC and Centerbridge Partners LP (and the investment negotiated on termination)
• 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 is an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School, where he teaches a course on Mergers and Acquisitions.