Jimmy Fang’s practice is focused on advising public and private companies with their domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, investments, restructurings and general corporate matters. He represents both strategic and private equity clients across a wide range of industries, including food and beverage, financial services, real estate and healthcare.
Representative Matters
Prior to and since joining Stroock, Jimmy’s representative matters have included advising:
- Apollo Global Management in its $1.6 billion sale of CKE Restaurants to Roark Capital; and its $1.36 billion acquisition of The Fresh Market
- Ares Capital in connection with its investments in Eduk Group and InfiLaw
- BrightSphere in its $240 million acquisition of a majority interest in Landmark Partners
- Chelsea Therapeutics in its sale to Lundbeck for up to $658 million
- Conifer Financial Services in its sale to The Carlyle Group
- Diageo in connection with its acquisitions, joint ventures and investments relating to various spirit brands
- Dr Pepper Snapple Group in its $18.7 billion merger with Keurig Green Mountain
- Jackson National Life in the sale of its broker-dealer business to LPL financial for $448 million
- Mad Rose Group in connection with its recapitalization by Incline Equity Partners
- McKinsey & Company in connection with numerous acquisitions, joint ventures and investments, including its acquisition of Candid Partners
- MetLife in its sale of two broker-dealer affiliates to Cetera Financial Group
- Mitsui in its $550 million minority investment and strategic transaction with CIM Group
- Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation in its terminated $3.4 billion merger with Equity Commonwealth and its subsequent $4.0 billion merger with ILPT
- New State Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in numerous recapitalizations, add-on acquisitions and divestitures
- Pearson in connection with several divestitures, including its $1 billion sale of a 22% stake in Penguin Random House to Bertelsmann
- Penske Media Corporation in its acquisition of Fairchild Fashion Media from Condé Nast
- Pfizer in its $2.38 billion sale of its Capsugel business to KKR; and its $3.6 billion acquisition of King Pharmaceuticals
- Takeda in its acquisition of Inviragen
- The New York Times Company in numerous acquisitions and divestitures, including its acquisitions of Hello Society and The Wirecutter
- Varsity Healthcare Partners and its portfolio companies in numerous recapitalizations, add-on acquisitions and divestitures, including its sale of EyeCare Services Partners to Harvest Partners
- Warburg Realty in its sale to Coldwell Banker
Honors & Awards
Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law, 2023
Admitted To Practice
New York
Education
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2009
B.S., Cornell University, 2006
