Pamela Lawrence Endreny is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  Ms. Endreny represents clients in a broad range of U.S. and international tax matters.

Ms. Endreny’s experience includes mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, financings, restructurings and capital markets transactions.  She has obtained private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service on tax-free spin-offs and other corporate transactions.

She has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and was also named a Tax “MVP” by Law360.

Ms. Endreny is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section.  She is also a member of the Tax Forum and Private Investment Fund Tax Forum.

Significant representations include:

• Representation of VMware in its acquisition by Broadcom;
• The VMWare Board Special Committee in Dell Technologies’ spin-off of VMware;
• Ziff Davis in its spin-off of Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc.;
• Lennar Corp in its proposed spin-off of its asset management business;
• The Kraft Heinz Company in the sale of its nuts business, including the Planters brand, to Hormel Foods;
• The Kraft Heinz Company in its joint venture with food tech start-up, TheNotCompany, Inc.;
• The Hershey Co. in its acquisitions of Pretzels Inc., Dot’s Pretzels LLC, and Lily’s Sweets;
• News Corp. in its acquisition of the Books & Media segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;
• News Corp. in its acquisitions from S&P Global and IHS Markit of IHS Markit’s Base Chemicals business and IHS Markit’s Oil Price Information Services (OPIS) and associated businesses;
• Merck & Co. in its acquisition of VelosBio Inc.;
• PepsiCo in its joint venture with Beyond Meat;
• South Jersey Industries, Inc., in its take-private acquisition by the Infrastructure Investments Fund;
• Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. I, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by an affiliate of Fifth Wall, in its acquisition of SmartRent;
• U.S. Concrete, Inc., in its acquisition by Vulcan Materials Company;
• Candle Media, a media company formed by Blackstone, Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, in its majority investment in Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine;
• Candle Media in its acquisition of Faraway Road Productions and The Home Edit;
• Block, Inc., in its acquisition of Jay-Z’s Tidal audio and video music streaming service;
• Providence Service Corporation in its acquisition of Simplura Health Group;
• Togetherwork Holdings, LLC, a portfolio company of GI Partners, in its acquisition of Fonteva, an association and events management platform built on Salesforce;
• L Catterton in its strategic investment in Function of Beauty;
• Fly Leasing Limited in its sale to an affiliate of Carlyle Aviation Partners;
• Zevia PBC in connection with its initial public offering in an UP-C structure;
• Chobani LLC in its proposed initial public offering in an UP-C structure; and
• PAR Technology Corporation in its acquisition of Punchh Inc.