Nathan Kiratzis
Assists clients in navigating the competition law aspects of complex transactions. Represents clients in investigations before U.S. antitrust authorities.
Nathan advises clients on the competition law aspects of complex transactions across a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, financial services, technology, industrials and consumer products. He routinely represents clients in merger investigations and in non-merger conduct investigations before the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice.
In his M&A advisory practice, Nathan assists clients with the development of strategies for obtaining competition clearance of transactions across international jurisdictions.
He is an editor of Global Competition Review’s Merger Remedies Guide.
Experience
Consumer Products & Retail
- Ferrero and its affiliates on its:
- $2.8 billion acquisition of Nestlé’s U.S. confectionery business
- $1.3 billion acquisition of Kellogg’s cookie, fruit and fruit-flavored snack, ice cream cone, and pie crust businesses
- Acquisitions of Ferrara Candy, Kelsen Group, Power Crunch and Jelly Belly
- Natura’s $2.525 billion sale of Aesop to L’Oréal
- Spectrum Brands in the $4.3 billion sale of its Hardware & Home Improvement segment to ASSA ABLOY
Industrials
- Bridgepoint sale of DMC Power to Golden Gate Capital
- Emerson Electric, in multiple transactions, including:
- Acquisition of control of Aspen Technology in an $11 billion transaction
- $8.2 billion acquisition of National Instruments
- $3.15 billion acquisition of Pentair’s valves and controls business
- Acquisitions of Open Systems International, Textron’s Tools and Test Equipment business, GE’s Intelligent Platforms business and Paradigm
- Sales of its Climate Technologies, InSinkErator, Therm-O-Disc, network power and generators/motors businesses
- Lydall on its $1.3 billion acquisition by Unifrax
- HNI Corporation on its $485 million acquisition of Kimball International
- Owens Corning on its $3.9 billion acquisition of Masonite International
Financial Services
- Charles Schwab on its $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade
- JPMorgan Chase in its acquisition of First Republic Bank from the FDIC
Media & Technology
- ASMedia Technology $390 million acquisition of Techpoint
- Clarivate on its $5.3 billion acquisition of ProQuest
- ICM Partners, a Crestview Partners portfolio company, on its acquisition by Creative Artists Agency
- NBC Sports Group in its acquisition of EZLinks Golf
- Paychex $4.1 billion acquisition of Paycor HCM
- PracticeTek on its merger with Integrated Practice Solutions
Pharmaceuticals
- Gilead Sciences in its $21 billion acquisition of Immunomedics
- Roche on its $4.8 billion acquisition of Spark Therapeutics
- Shire on its $62 billion acquisition by Takeda
Transportation & Logistics
- Cheney Brothers on its $2.1 billion acquisition by Performance Food Group
- FirstGroup on its:
- $4.6 billion sale of First Student and First Transit to EQT
- Sale of Greyhound Lines to FlixMobility
- Services Group of America on the $1.8 billion sale of SGA’s Food Group of Companies to US Foods
Insights
Education
- with honours
Prior experience
- Herbert Smith Freehills (Melbourne), 2009-2016
Qualifications and admissions
- High Court of Australia
- State of New York
- Supreme Court of Victoria
- U.S. District Court, S.D. New York