Evan M. D'Amico

Evan represents public and private companies, private equity firms, boards of directors, and special committees in connection with a wide variety of complex corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions, complex carve-outs and divestitures, hostile takeovers and defense, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, split-offs, and joint ventures. Evan also has experience advising issuers, borrowers, underwriters, and lenders in connection with financing transactions and public and private offerings of debt and equity securities.

Evan has been named a Rising Star in mergers and acquisitions by Super Lawyers 2016-2019, Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ and IFLR1000. In 2019, The Deal profiled him as a Rising Star, which recognizes new M&A partners who are “deemed by The Deal to be one of the most promising of 2020.” Evan was named by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading Dealmakers in America for 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

Evan earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, Evan served as an Executive Technical Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Evan graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. Evan is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia.

Representative Matters

• Essential Utilities in its pending merger with American Water Works Company at a combined enterprise value of $63 billion.
• SpaceX in its acquisition of xAI.
• C&S Wholesale Grocers in its $1.77 billion acquisition of SpartanNash Company.
• 89bio in its $3.5 billion sale to Roche.
• Polymarket in its acquisition of QCEX, a CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse.
• Platinum Equity and its portfolio company Solenis, a specialty chemicals supplier to water-intensive industries, on Solenis’ acquisition of NCH Corporation and its $4.6 billion acquisition of Diversey Holdings.
• Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. III in its $550 million combination with Mobile Infrastructure, and Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. I in its $2.2 billion acquisition of SmartRent, Inc.
• Motive Capital Corp. in its $2 billion merger with Forge Global.
• Eaton Corporation in connection with the $3.3 billion sale of its hydraulics business to Danfoss, its $920 million acquisition of Souriau-Sunbank from Transdigm, and its acquisition of Power Distribution, Inc.
• Vertiv, a provider of digital infrastructure/continuity solutions for data centers and a Platinum Equity portfolio company, in its $5.3 billion business combination with GS Acquisition Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company.
• The Carlyle Group Holdings Conflicts Committee in connection with Carlyle’s conversion from a publicly-traded limited partnership to a corporation.
• Arlington Capital Partners in connection with various matters, including its acquisition of Pond & Company and the formation of Tyto Athene.
• MidOcean Partners in connection with various matters, including its acquisitions of Florida Food Products, HanleyWood and Meyers Research.
• L Catterton in connection with various matters, including the sales of Ferrara Candy Company, ClearChoice Holdings and Van’s Natural Foods.
• Ensco plc in its $12 billion combination transaction with Rowan Companies plc.
• The Williams Companies, Inc. in its proposed $37.7 billion combination with Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.
• Towers Watson & Co. in its $18 billion merger of equals with Willis Group Holdings plc.
• The Williams Companies, Inc. in the $50 billion merger of Williams Partners L.P. with Access Midstream Partners, L.P.
• CoStar Group, Inc. in its acquisitions of Apartments.com for $585 million, ForRent.com for $385 million, and Apartment Finder for $170 million.