About
Bethany focuses her practice on public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general corporate matters. Her experience spans many industries, including technology, life sciences, industrials, financial institutions and consumer goods, with a focus on cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions. She regularly advices clients on complex transactions and strategic matters, including public and private company sales and acquisitions, carve-outs and divestitures, joint ventures and other strategic collaborations, as well as corporate governance and disclosure matters.
Her clients have included Airspan, Ahold Delhaize, Aras, Bharti, Biogen, Deutsche Börse, Eurazeo, Global Blood Therapeutics, GreenSky, Hearst, IBM, Picard Groupe, Qualcomm, RELX Group, Robinhood, SPANX, Texas Capital Bank, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Unilever, US Foods, Vista Outdoor and Xerox.
Bethany has been recognized for her work in mergers and acquisitions by IFLR1000 and has been recognized by Lawdragon as among the "500 Leading Dealmakers in America" and the "500 X — The Next Generation." In 2025, the Financial Times featured her work on Vista Outdoor's $1.125bn sale of Revelyst to SVP and $2.225bn sale of The Kinetic Group to CSG on its annual North America Innovative Lawyers report. In 2023, she was named one of the "Top Women in Dealmaking" by The Deal.
- Thermo Fisher Scientific in its $20.9bn acquisition of PPD; its $3.1bn acquisition of Olink; and the $1.075bn sale of its microbiology business to Astorg
- Biogen in its $7.3bn acquisition of Reata Pharmaceuticals; its $5.6bn acquisition of Apellis and its strategic collaboration agreement with Skyhawk
- Global Blood Therapeutics in its $5.4bn acquisition by Pfizer
- Deutsche Börse in its €3.9bn acquisition of SimCorp and the combination of ISS and Qontigo’s index business as ISS STOXX
- Texas Capital Bank in the $3.4bn sale of BankDirect Capital Finance to Truist
- GreenSky in its $2.24bn acquisition by Goldman Sachs
- Vista Outdoor in the $2.225bn sale of The Kinetic Group to Czechoslovak Group and the $1.125bn sale of Revelyst to SVP
- US Foods in its $970m acquisition of Smart Foodservice and $1.8bn acquisition of SGA Food Group
- Bharti in the acquisition of, and $1bn investment in, OneWeb by a consortium led by Bharti and Her Majesty’s Government
- Robinhood in its $605.7m purchase from the United States Marshals Service of shares previously owned by Emergent Fidelity Technologies, a firm co‑founded by FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried; its $300m acquisition of TradePMR; and its joint venture and partnership with Susquehanna to operate a CFTC-licensed exchange and clearinghouse and the related acquisition of MIAXdx
- RELX Group in its acquisitions of Wellsheet, Mytonomy, Human API, Interfolio and BehavioSec
- Fitch Learning, a subsidiary of Hearst, in its acquisition of Moody’s Analytics Learning Solutions and the Canadian Securities Institute
- Ahold Delhaize in the sale of its FreshDirect business to Getir
- Airspan in the sale of Mimosa to Radisys
- Thrivent in its acquisition of a majority stake in College Avenue
- Unilever in its acquisition of a majority stake in Nutrafol
- SPANX in its sale of a majority stake to funds managed by Blackstone
- Aras in its substantial growth investment from GI Partners
- Eurazeo in its acquisition of Scaled Agile
- IBM in the sale of its healthcare and data analytics assets, part of the Watson Health business, to Francisco Partners, its acquisition of McD Tech Labs from McDonald’s and its collaboration with Maersk to jointly develop TradeLens, a blockchain‑enabled shipping solution
*This list includes work that Bethany completed while at a prior firm.
Bethany A. Pfalzgraf
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