Creighton Condon
Partner
Creighton previously served as Shearman & Sterling’s Senior Partner, European Managing Partner and Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group Leader. He advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and counsels boards of directors, and special committees on corporate governance matters related to change-of-control transactions, shareholder activism and complex structural issues.
Expertise
Industries
Experience
Representative matters
CVS Health Corp. in its $10.6 billion acquisition of Oak Street Health and in its $69 billion acquisition of health insurance company Aetna.
Strategic Sports Group, an investment consortium led by Fenway Sports Group, in its $1.5 billion investment in PGA TOUR Enterprises.
Viacom, Inc. in connection with various transactions and board level matters, including its split into two separately traded public companies (Viacom and CBS Corp.) which, at the time, was the largest transaction of its type ever completed, its acquisition of DreamWorks Studios, its business combination with CBS Corporation, its acquisition of the Chilevisión television channel from WarnerMedia, its contested acquisition of Paramount Communications Inc., its acquisition and subsequent split-off of Blockbuster, its disposition of Madison Square Garden Corporation, including the New York Knicks, New York Rangers and MSG Network, the sale of Simon & Schuster to Pearson plc and the acquisition of Black Entertainment Television and of the minority publicly held shares of Infinity Broadcasting.
Altice N.V. in its $17.7 billion acquisition of NYSE-listed Cablevision Systems Corporation.
Pro bono
Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations
- Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel
Qualifications
Admissions
Academic
St. John’s College, Cambridge
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1978
J.D., Columbia University, 1982
Stone Scholar
Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law