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David H. Schnabel

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Head of Tax practice. Advises clients on a full range of transactions – including mergers and acquisitions, financings and PIPEs – and on tax issues and strategy.

David is the head of our Tax practice. He advises clients on a full range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, financings, PIPEs, joint ventures and inversions. Clients also look to David for guidance on tax issues, strategy and the impact of potential tax-law changes.

David is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers USA, and Legal 500 U.S. includes him in its Hall of Fame for non-contentious tax work.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel and a former chair of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association.

Experience

SELECTED CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

  • Exxon’s:
    • $59.5 billion acquisition of Pioneer
    • $4.9 billion acquisition of Denbury
  • Charles Schwab’s:
    • $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade
    • $1.8 billion acquisition of USAA investment management assets
  • Comcast’s spinoff of select cable television networks
  • Technip’s $17 billion combination with FMC Technologies
  • HRG Group’s 
    • $10 billion combination with Spectrum Brands Holdings
    • $1.84 billion sale of Fidelity & Guaranty Life
  • Ingram Micro’s $7.1 billion acquisition by Platinum Equity
  • UMB’s $2 billion acquisition of Heartland
  • McKesson’s creation of a new healthcare IT company
  • Taboola’s:
    • 30-year commercial agreement with Yahoo
    • $2.6 billion merger with ION Acquisition Corp. 1
    • cancelled merger with Outbrain
    • $800 million acquisition of Connexity
  • Murphy USA’s $645 million acquisition of QuickChek

SELECTED PRIVATE EQUITY AND INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

  • TPG Capital’s:
    • $1 billion IPO and subsequent financings and offerings
    • acquisitions of Angelo Gordon, Thycotic, Convey Health Systems and majority stakes in Centrify and Thomson Reuters’ Elite
    • strategic investment in Creative Planning
    • acquisition of New Relic with Francisco Partners
  • Brookfield Business Partners’:
    • $8.3 billion acquisition of CDK Global
    • $3.4 billion acquisition of DexKo Global
  • Whitney Wolfe Herd, co-founder of Bumble, on:
    • Bumble’s $2.5 billion IPO
    • Blackstone’s majority investment in MagicLab
  • Sterling Equities’ sale of the New York Mets
  • Fortress Investment Group’s $3.3 billion acquisition by SoftBank (Special Committee of Independent Directors)
  • Symphony Technology-led consortium’s $2.075 billion acquisition of RSA from Dell
  • Cornell Capital’s:
    • merger of Corelle with Instant Brands
    • investment in Lorom
  • Bridgepoint’s:
    • sale of minority interest in Humanetics
    • acquisition of Sun World International
  • BDT Capital’s:
    • acquisition of Culligan International and bolt-on acquisition of Waterlogic
    • acquisition of a majority interest in MJH Sciences
    • acquisition of Balcan Plastics
    • investments in Charlotte Tilbury and WhistlePig and divestitures
  • Lightyear Capital’s sale of Therapy Brands to KKR
  • Atairos Group’s investment in Bowlmor AMF and acquisition of Learfield Communications
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Insights

Recognition

Chambers USA – Tax: New York, Band 1

Legal 500 U.S. – US Taxes: Non-Contentious, Hall of Fame

ITR World Tax – Transactional Tax, New York, Highly Regarded

Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) – Corporate Tax: Advisory, Thought Leader

Education

LL.M., Taxation, New York University School of Law
  • Fergus Fellow
J.D., New York University School of Law
  • cum laude
B.A., Macalester College
  • cum laude
  • with highest honors

Clerkships

Law Clerk, Hon. Carolyn P. Chiechi, U.S. Tax Court, 1992-1993

Prior experience

  • Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton, 2000-2015
  • Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton, 1994-2000

Qualifications and admissions

  • State of New York
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