Pamela Lawrence Endreny

Pamela Lawrence Endreny is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a Co-Chair of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. 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 andThe Legal 500 US, 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.

Ms. Endreny earned her Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University. She is a member of the Massachusetts bar and New York bar.

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.

Capabilities

• Tax
• Investment Funds
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Private Equity

Credentials

Education:

• Columbia University - 1994 Juris Doctor
• Brown University - 1986 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• Massachusetts Bar
• New York Bar