David Cooper

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David Allinson, Global Vice Chair of Latham & Watkins' Corporate Department, counsels leading private equity firms and public companies on a range of complex M&A transactions and general corporate matters.

David draws on more than two decades of experience serving as a strategic advisor to clients. He applies a commercially focused approach to help clients structure and execute transactions involving diverse industries, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure, healthcare, and technology sectors. His clients include private equity firms as well as public and private companies.

David’s practice encompasses:

Leveraged buyouts
Take-private transactions
Joint ventures
Carve-outs

David's Experience Includes

- Consortium of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Global Infrastructure Partners in the US$6.2 billion acquisition of ALLETE, Inc.
- Aera Energy, CPPIB, and IKAV in Aera's US$2.1 billion all-stock merger with California Resources Corporation
- Inovalon, a leading provider of cloud-based platforms empowering data-driven healthcare, in its US$7.3 billion take-private sale to an equity consortium led by Nordic Capital
- Romeo Power in its stock-for-stock merger with Nikola Corporation
- T-Mobile in its agreement with DISH to divest Sprint’s prepaid businesses and Sprint’s 800 MHz spectrum assets for approximately US$5 billion
- ArcLight Capital Partners in a number of transactions, including its:
  - US$2 billion sale of Great River Hydro, the largest hydropower fleet in New England, to Hydro-Québec
  - US$1.92 billion acquisition of PSEG’s 6,750-megawatt fossil generating portfolio
  - US$2.1 billion acquisition with the Blackstone Energy Group of four power plants from American Electric Power

Bar Qualification

New York

Education

JD, New York University School of Law, 1995
BA, Colgate University, 1992
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

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