Robert W. Dickey

Partner

Robert W. Dickey advises US and non-US based companies with respect to their most important mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions. He also counsels executives, in house counsel, and boards of directors on a wide range of critical corporate matters, including fiduciary duties, corporate governance, and securities law compliance.

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Extended Profile

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.

selected representations

The New York Times Company in its acquisition of Serial Productions, the company that produces the “Serial” podcast, and its strategic alliance with “This American Life” that will enable it to continue to collaborate on long-form audio stories with Serial Productions
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