Daisy Wu is of counsel in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice Groups. She represents multinational corporations, financial institutions and private equity firms and their portfolio companies across a broad range of industries in mergers, acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and other corporate transactions.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Daisy was a counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. Daisy received her law degree from Harvard Law School. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Daisy’s recent representations include:
- Emerson Electric Co. in the sale of a majority stake in its Climate Technologies business to funds managed by Blackstone in a transaction valuing Climate Technologies at $14 billion.*
- TPG Capital on its take-private acquisition of Convey Health Solutions Holdings representing an enterprise value of approximately $1.1 billion.*
- State Street Corporation on its $3.5 billion acquisition of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.’s Investor Services business.*
- Emerson Electric Co. in its $8.2 billion acquisition of National Instruments Corporation.*
- BDT Capital Partners in the combination of Culligan International, its portfolio company, with Waterlogic Group Holdings.*
- BDT Capital Partners in its acquisition of Culligan International from Advent International and Centerbridge Partners.*
- Penguin Random House in its acquisition of Hay House.*
- The Orogen Group in its acquisition of a majority interest in Westcor Land Title Insurance Company.*
- Bridgepoint Capital in the sale of minority interests in Humanetics to Ansys, Inc.*
- BlueVoyant, Inc. in its acquisition of Conquest Cyber from United Data Technologies, Inc.*
- JP Morgan Securities LLC and Lazard as financial advisers to Aimmune Therapeutics in connection with its $2.6 billion sale to Sociétés des Produits Nestlé, S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nestlé S.A.
- Bridgepoint Capital in its acquisition of Sun World International.*
- Ingenovis Health, Inc. in its acquisiton of HealthCare Support Staffing.*
- Assurant on its acquisition of mobile device trade-in innovator HYLA Mobile.*
- BDT Capital Partners in its acquisition of a majority interest in Casa Dagones and subsequent investments.*
- Fiera Capital Corporation in its sale of Bel Air Investment Advisors to Hightower Advisors.*
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc. in its $550 million sale of its interests in the Kisanfu project to a wholly owned subsidiary of China Molybdenum Co., Ltd.*
- Contura Energy in its merger-of-equals with Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc.*
- Ingenovis Health, Inc. in its acquisition of VISTA Staffing Solutions from Envision Physician Services.*
- Penguin Random House in its acquisition of publishing assets of Callisto Media.*
- Contura Energy in its sale of certain assets in the Powder River Basin and subsequent exit.*
- Emerson Electric Co. in the sale of its ClosetMaid business to Griffon Corporation.*
* denotes matters from a previous firm.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- Harvard University - 2016 Juris Doctor
- Northwestern University - 2013 Bachelor of Science
Admissions:
- New York Bar