Alexander H. Rahn

Alexander H. Rahn is a counsel in Hughes Hubbard’s Corporate department.

His practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions and corporate control contests, in which Alex advises strategic and financial investors as well as financial advisors.

Alex has represented asylum petitioners on a pro bono basis and advises not-for-profit entities on formation, corporate governance and mergers.

Prior to joining Hughes Hubbard, Alex was an associate at the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Representation of:

• Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. IV, a SPAC backed by Kensington Capital Partners, in its $939 million merger with Amprius Technologies, Inc. that took the nanowire battery company public
• Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc. in its sale to parent company and majority shareholder Santander Holdings USA Inc. in a $2.5 billion deal that took the Dallas-based auto lending and consumer finance company private
• SPAC Isos Acquisition Corp., in its $2.6 billion IPO merger with Bowlero Corp. that took the world’s largest owner and operator of bowling centers public
• Grab Holdings Inc., Southeast Asia’s leading super app, in its merger with SPAC Altimeter Growth Corp., a transaction that took Grab public in the largest SPAC merger ever ascribing to Grab a pro-forma equity value of approximately $39.6 billion
• Platinum Equity, a Beverly Hills-based private equity firm, in connection with its $850 million investment in Nesco Holdings, a provider of specialized truck and heavy equipment solutions, in connection with Nesco's acquisition of Custom Truck One Source
• British sports and fashion retailer JD Sports Fashion in its acquisition of athletic footwear and apparel streetwear retailer DTLR Villa
• Airbus OneWeb Satellites LLC, the Florida and France based manufacturer for satellites for the OneWeb enterprise, as a counterparty and principal supplier in the successful $2 billion chapter 11 restructuring of OneWeb
• Turnitin, a subsidiary of Advance Publications, in its acquisition of online assessment platform Examsoft
• Cenveo, Inc., a provider of management and distribution solutions for printing and packaging products, in connection with the sale of a portion of its print publication (e.g., journals, magazines) businesses to Intellicor Communications
• Cenveo Inc. in the carve-out sale of its content services business to CJK Group Inc.
• GFG Alliance affiliate in a “363” sale purchase of substantially all of Bayou Steel BD Holdings LLC’s assets
• Global information technology leader Infosys in its acquisition of Kaleidoscope Innovation, a full-spectrum product design, development and insights firm
• Grab Financial Group, Southeast Asia’s leading fintech platform, in raising over $300 million in a Series A funding round led by South Korea’s Hanwha Asset Management Co. Ltd.
• Global information technology leader Infosys in its acquisition of Simplus, the global leader of Salesforce quote-to-cash
• CBS Corp. in connection with its $30 billion merger with Viacom Inc. 
• Platinum Equity in its $1.9 billion acquisition of Wesco Aircraft
• Patrick Drahi in his $3.7 billion acquisition of Sotheby’s
• Venus Concept in its acquisition of Restoration Robotics
• Bank of America in the sale of its ownership interest in GA Telesis to Tokyo Century and ANA
• Petit Forestier Group, European leader in refrigeration rental, in its first U.S. acquisition of Mendon Leasing
• Circle Talent Agency in its sale to UTA
• Sports Direct International in the negotiation of its Cooperation Agreement with Iconix Brand Group
• Highstar Capital in the $430 million sale of its ownership interest in Aerostar, the operator of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Western Digital in its $19 billion strategic acquisition of SanDisk
• Brookfield Residential Properties in its $871 million cross-border going private transaction
• Atlantic Power Corporation in its $65 million cross-border issuer tender offer
• StoneCastle in its $205 million Community Funding CLO transaction
• Lenovo Group in its $2.3 billion acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business
• SPIE in the acquisition of the Service Solutions Business from HOCHTIEF Solutions, a subsidiary of German construction group HOCHTIEF
• Edenred, a leading provider of expense management services headquartered in Paris, France, in its acquisition of a minority stake (with an option to acquire a majority stake) in UTA, a key player in the European fleet management market, and the entering into of relating joint venture arrangements