Freshfields advising JD Sports on its $1.1bn acquisition of Nasdaq-listed Hibbett

Freshfields is advising JD Sports on its all-cash acquisition of Hibbett, Inc. (NASD: HIBB) for an enterprise value of approximately $1.1 billion. Details of the transaction can be found here.

The Freshfields team is led out of New York by M&A partner Paul Tiger, partner-elect Tomas Rua and associates Victor Ma, Casey Hagen and Connor Lang and included London M&A partners Claire Wills and Andrew Hutchings, senior associate Ellie Dunne and associate Amadita Garcia on UK corporate matters.  

Additional team members, all based in the U.S., included partner Lori Goodman, senior associate Andrew Herman and associate Sonia Bennett on executive compensation and employee benefits matters; partner Meghan Rissmiller, counsel Laura Onken, senior associate Vadim Egoul and associate L.B. McCaskey on antitrust matters; counsel Jeremiah Nelson and staff attorney David Perry on real estate matters; partner Kyle Lakin and associate Gemma Pastellas on finance matters; partner Mena Kaplan and associate Christian Bond on intellectual property matters; partners Christine Lyon and Brock Dahl and associate Christine Chong on data privacy and cybersecurity matters; partner Claude Stansbury and associate Hannah Golden on tax matters; and partner Stephanie Brown Cripps and associate Keian Razipour on compliance matters.