Dan Dufner

Further example of Dan's transactional experience includes:

Healthcare

Representing Elevance Health, Inc. (f/k/a Anthem, Inc.) in a series of acquisitions, including:

• its agreement to acquire home health company CareBridge;
• the acquisition of Kroger Specialty Pharmacy Holdings, Inc., The Kroger Co.'s specialty pharmacy and infusion business.
• its strategic partnership with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) to accelerate innovation in primary care delivery, enhance the healthcare experience and improve health outcomes.
• its minority investment in the combined company emerging from the merger between Castlight Health, Inc., and Vera Whole Health, Inc.
• in its pending acquisition of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana (BCBSLA), a Louisiana mutual insurance company;
• its acquisition of myNEXUS Inc., a post-acute benefits management company focused on delivering innovative home and community-based product offerings.
   

Telecommunications

Representing DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) in a series of transactions, including:

• its US$25.5 billion unsolicited proposal to acquire Sprint Nextel Corporation; and
• its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Blockbuster, Inc. in a court-approved auction under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.

Satellite Communications Services

Representing EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), a premier global provider of satellite and video delivery solutions, in a series of transactions, including:

• its terminated definitive agreement under which DIRECTV would have acquired EchoStar's video distribution business DISH DBS, including DISH TV and Sling TV, through a series of innovative debt exchange and financing transactions designed to deliver its balance sheet and improve the company's debt maturity profile;
• in its pending all-stock merger with DISH Network Corporation;
• the tax-free spin-off and subsequent merger of its broadcast satellite service business, including nine satellites and certain real estate owned by EchoStar, with a subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation;
• its agreement to enter into a joint venture with Yahsat, a leading global satellite operator based in the United Arab Emirates and wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company, to provide commercial Ka-band satellite broadband services across Africa, the Middle East and southwest Asia. He also represented Hughes Network Systems, LLC , a subsidiary of EchoStar, in the purchase of a minority interest in a joint venture with Yahsat.

Financial Services

• First Republic Bank in its US$1.8 billion merger with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.