Robert W. Dickey

Rob has represented a large number of companies in the media and technology industries, and also has significant experience in the automotive and mobility, chemical, food and beverage, industrial, life sciences, and risk management industries.

Rob oversees the firm’s M&A Academy, a series of tailored webinars designed to provide a comprehensive M&A overview for M&A professionals and others who deal with M&A issues. He speaks frequently on trends in the M&A legal arena and the media and technology industries.

• AarhusKarlshamn AB in its acquisition of Golden Foods and Golden Brands and Oasis Foods Company
• BASF SE in its acquisition of Chemetall
• Chelsea Therapeutics in its sale to Lundbeck
• The Economist Group in its acquisition of Congressional Quarterly and its sales of CFO Publishing and CQ Roll Call
• The Financial Times in its acquisition of GIS Planning
• Interactive Data Corporation in its acquisition by Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus
• ITOCHU Corporation in its acquisition of Alta Forest Products
• A group of LG companies in their acquisition of Eastman Kodak Company’s OLED business
• Moody’s Corporation in its acquisitions of WebEquity and Omega Performance
• The New York Times Company in its acquisition of The Wirecutter and The Sweethome and its sales of About.com and The Boston Globe
• Pearson plc in its acquisitions of Certiport, Connections Education, Global Education & Technology Group and SchoolNet, and its sales of its U.S. K12 courseware business and PowerSchool
• Penske Media in its investment in Wenner Media
• Perrigo Company in its acquisition of Agis Industries
• Reed Elsevier in its acquisition of Accuity
• Sandvik AB in its acquisitions of Summerill Tube Corp., Thermaltek and Custom Electric Manufacturing, and its sales of Varel International Energy Services and Kanthal’s electronic components business