Alisa Babitz

Alisa Babitz is of counsel in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington, D.C. office.  She is a member of the firm’s Corporate Transactions Practice Group, focusing on securities law and mergers and acquisitions.  She advises public and private companies on a wide range of general corporate, securities and M&A matters including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities; acquisitions, dispositions and other business combinations; strategic alliances and joint ventures; and venture capital investments. 

Ms. Babitz has co-authored several articles on various corporate and securities law topics, as well as the “Securities Law Issues” chapter of The M&A Practice Guide, LexisNexis (2010) and chapters in Partnership, Joint Ventures & Strategic Relationships, Law Journal Seminars-Press (2010).

Ms. Babitz earned her law degree, cum laude, in 1993 from Harvard Law School.  She received a bachelor of arts degree, magna cum laude, in history from Columbia University in 1990.  She is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia.

Selected Transactions

• Represented Watson Wyatt in its $3.5 billion merger of equals with Towers Perrin.
• Represented NeuStar, Inc. which maintains telephone number data bases pursuant to a contract sponsored by the FCC, in several acquisitions of government contractors.
• Represented EaglePicher Corporation in the 2010 sale to OMG of Eagle Picher Technologies, which supplies batteries and related technologies to the Department of Defense.
• Represented GridPoint, which provides services to utility clients, in connection with acquisition of Standard Renewable Energy, L..P., which provides services to government clients.
• Represented founders of Eclat Consulting in connection with formation of government contractor.
• Represented Liquidity Services, Inc., which has government contracts to market Department of Defense surplus, in connection with several acquisitions and other transactions.
• Represented Ener1, a batter technologies company that has Department of Energy grants and contracts, in connection with various acquisitions and capital raising transactions.
• Represented Sallie Mae in several acquisitions.
• Represented Global Research Services, in its acquisition of assets of Medifacts International, Inc.
• Represented The Corporate Executive Board Company in its acquisition of Executive Performance Group.
• Represented management in management buyout of APCO Worldwide Inc. from Grey Global Group, Inc.
• Represented Del Monte Corporation in its disposition of several lines of business to Royal Canin USA, a subsidiary of Mars, Inc.
• Represented Del Monte Foods Company in its acquisition of SKF Foods, Inc. from H. J. Heinz Company.
• Represented Wolverine Advanced Materials, LLC in the formation of a joint venture with Magicworks, Inc. to form a Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise in the People’s Republic of China.
• Represented Synthetic Genomics, Inc, in the formation of a joint venture with Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology Sdn Bhd.