William J. Chudd

William J. Chudd is a member of Davis Polk's Corporate Department, concentrating in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and related matters. His experience includes a wide variety of U.S. and international mergers and acquisitions transactions, including the following:
 

• Comcast in its pending sale of wireless spectrum to Verizon Wireless
• VF Corporation in its acquisition of The Timberland Company
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the U.S. Treasury in connection with the recapitalization of American International Group (AIG)
• ExxonMobil in its acquisition of XTO Energy
• Roche in its going-private acquisition of Genentech
• PartnerRe in its acquisition of ParisRe
• MSCI in its acquisition of RiskMetrics
• Warner Chilcott on the amendment to its global collaboration agreement with sanofi-aventis
• AstraZeneca in its $16 billion tender offer for MedImmune

Mr. Chudd has also represented Tailwind Capital Partners and other private equity funds in their acquisitions and investments. Mr. Chudd is currently based in Davis Polk's New York office.