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Andrew T. Davis focuses his practice on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including spin‑off and private equity transactions, as well as securities offerings and banking transactions.

Mr. Davis’s notable transactions include representing:

  • Afterpay in its $29 billion acquisition by Block;
  • AP WIP Investments in its $860 million acquisition by Landscape Acquisition;
  • Atalaya Capital Management in its $800 million sale to Blue Owl Capital;
  • AXA in its $15.3 billion acquisition of XL;
  • Bacardi in its acquisition of ILEGAL Mezcal;
  • BDT in its majority investment in Marquette Transportation;
  • Bridge Investment Group’s special committee in the pending $1.5 billion acquisition by Apollo;
  • Cable One in the formation of Clearwave Fiber, a joint venture with GTCR, Stephens Capital Partners and The Pritzker Organization;
  • Cano Health shareholders, including members of management, in the $4.4 billion SPAC merger with Jaws Acquisition, which included an $800 million PIPE investment;
  • Deutsche Telekom in its Master Framework Agreement with SoftBank and T‑Mobile, pursuant to which DT consented to SoftBank’s sale of T‑Mobile shares for approximately $20 billion;
  • Disney in the pending combination of its Hulu + Live TV business with Fubo, ESPN’s proposed joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch Venu Sports and ESPN’s strategic alliance with PENN Entertainment to launch ESPN BET;
  • Endeavor’s special committee in the $25 billion take‑private acquisition by Silver Lake;
  • FactSet in its $246.5 million acquisition of LiquidityBook, its $1.925 billion acquisition of CUSIP Global Services from S&P Global and its acquisition of Irwin;
  • Forward Air in its combination with Omni Logistics, creating a $3.7 billion company;
  • Grubhub and Just Eat Takeaway.com in Grubhub’s sale to Wonder;
  • GW Pharmaceuticals in its $7.2 billion acquisition by Jazz Pharmaceuticals;
  • Hibu Group in the sale of its U.S. business to H.I.G. Capital;
  • The special committee of the Hudson board of directors in the sale of all remaining equity interests in Hudson to Dufry;
  • IBM in its acquisitions of AlchemyAPI and Blue Box Group;
  • Johnson & Johnson in connection with multiple transactions, including the IPO and separation of Kenvue, its $14.6 billion acquisition of Intra‑Cellular Therapies, its $2 billion acquisition of Ambrx, its $16.6 billion acquisition of Abiomed, its $6.5 billion acquisition of Momenta, Ethicon’s $3.4 billion acquisition of Auris Health, its $30 billion acquisition of Actelion, its ¥230 billion acquisition of Ci:z, the $2.1 billion sale of LifeScan to Platinum Equity and the $2.8 billion sale of its Advanced Sterilization Products business to Fortive;
  • Just Eat Takeaway.com in its $7.3 billion acquisition of Grubhub;
  • Knorr-Bremse in its $149.5 million acquisition of R.H. Sheppard and the sale of R.H. Sheppard to Balmoral Funds;
  • Lindsay Goldberg and its portfolio companies in connection with multiple transactions, including Amentum’s Reverse Morris Trust merger with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, creating a combined organization with $13 billion in revenue; its $1.9 billion acquisition of PAE and its acquisition of DynCorp International; the acquisition of Golden State Foods; Summit Interconnect’s acquisition of Royal Circuit Solutions; the sale of Pixelle to H.I.G. Capital; the acquisition of a majority interest in Pike; and its acquisition of VDM from ThyssenKrupp;
  • Newcrest in its A$28.8 billion acquisition by Newmont;
  • OLX Group in letgo’s combination with OfferUp of their U.S. businesses and OLX Brazil in its R$2.9 billion acquisition of Grupo ZAP;
  • OUTFRONT Media in the C$410 million divestiture of its Canadian business to Bell Media;
  • Pitney Bowes in the sale of Borderfree to Global‑e and the $700 million sale of its Software Solutions business to Syncsort;
  • Prosus in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Stack Overflow and its $500 million PIPE investment in connection with Churchill II SPAC’s $1.5 billion merger with Skillsoft and acquisition of Global Knowledge;
  • Radius Global Infrastructure in its $3 billion acquisition by EQT Active Core Infrastructure and PSP Investments;
  • Richemont in its $1.1 billion PIPE investment in Farfetch, in partnership with Alibaba;
  • Robinhood in its initial public offering and its $300 million acquisition of TradePMR;
  • Robotic Research in its $228 million Series A financing round;
  • Scientific Games in the $6.05 billion sale of SG Lottery to Brookfield;
  • SMBC Aviation Capital in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Goshawk Aviation;
  • The Snyder family in the $6.05 billion sale of the NFL's Washington Commanders to a partnership led by Josh Harris;
  • Tabula Rasa in its $570 million take‑private acquisition by Nautic;
  • TaskUs’s special committee in the pending $2 billion take-private acquisition by Blackstone and the company’s co‑founders;
  • Unilever in its acquisition of OLLY and its $384 million acquisition of TAZO from Starbucks;
  • Univision in its sale of a majority stake to Searchlight and ForgeLight; 
  • WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, creating Smurfit WestRock; and
  • Wiz in its pending $32 billion acquisition by Google.

Mr. Davis was named a “Rising Star” by Law360 in 2022, recognizing him as one of five outstanding tax lawyers in the nation under the age of 40, and has been recognized by Lawdragon as among the “500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers” and “500 X – The Next Generation.” He has been recognized for his work in the tax arena by The Legal 500 US.

Mr. Davis is a member of the Corporate Tax Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. He frequently speaks on important developments in tax law, including for organizations such as the ABA, D.C. Bar, Federal Bar Association, Practising Law Institute (PLI) and NYU’s Institute on Federal Taxation. In particular, he is a frequent commentator on topics in corporate taxation such as the corporate alternative minimum tax (“CAMT”), having participated in events including PLI’s “Basics of International Taxation,” where he spoke on a panel entitled “Compliance with Minimum Taxes.” Mr. Davis serves as Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches corporate income taxation.

Mr. Davis is from Montclair, New Jersey. He received an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2010, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2014, where he was an Articles Editor of the Journal of Law, Business & Finance, and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2020.

Mr. Davis joined Cravath in 2014. Following a one‑year clerkship with Hon. Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he returned to the Firm in 2016 and was elected a partner in 2021.

Mr. Davis’s notable transactions include representing:

  • Afterpay in its $29 billion acquisition by Block;
  • AP WIP Investments in its $860 million acquisition by Landscape Acquisition;
  • Atalaya Capital Management in its $800 million sale to Blue Owl Capital;
  • AXA in its $15.3 billion acquisition of XL;
  • Bacardi in its acquisition of ILEGAL Mezcal;
  • BDT in its majority investment in Marquette Transportation;
  • Bridge Investment Group’s special committee in the pending $1.5 billion acquisition by Apollo;
  • Cable One in the formation of Clearwave Fiber, a joint venture with GTCR, Stephens Capital Partners and The Pritzker Organization;
  • Cano Health shareholders, including members of management, in the $4.4 billion SPAC merger with Jaws Acquisition, which included an $800 million PIPE investment;
  • Deutsche Telekom in its Master Framework Agreement with SoftBank and T‑Mobile, pursuant to which DT consented to SoftBank’s sale of T‑Mobile shares for approximately $20 billion;
  • Disney in the pending combination of its Hulu + Live TV business with Fubo, ESPN’s proposed joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch Venu Sports and ESPN’s strategic alliance with PENN Entertainment to launch ESPN BET;
  • Endeavor’s special committee in the $25 billion take‑private acquisition by Silver Lake;
  • FactSet in its $246.5 million acquisition of LiquidityBook, its $1.925 billion acquisition of CUSIP Global Services from S&P Global and its acquisition of Irwin;
  • Forward Air in its combination with Omni Logistics, creating a $3.7 billion company;
  • Grubhub and Just Eat Takeaway.com in Grubhub’s sale to Wonder;
  • GW Pharmaceuticals in its $7.2 billion acquisition by Jazz Pharmaceuticals;
  • Hibu Group in the sale of its U.S. business to H.I.G. Capital;
  • The special committee of the Hudson board of directors in the sale of all remaining equity interests in Hudson to Dufry;
  • IBM in its acquisitions of AlchemyAPI and Blue Box Group;
  • Johnson & Johnson in connection with multiple transactions, including the IPO and separation of Kenvue, its $14.6 billion acquisition of Intra‑Cellular Therapies, its $2 billion acquisition of Ambrx, its $16.6 billion acquisition of Abiomed, its $6.5 billion acquisition of Momenta, Ethicon’s $3.4 billion acquisition of Auris Health, its $30 billion acquisition of Actelion, its ¥230 billion acquisition of Ci:z, the $2.1 billion sale of LifeScan to Platinum Equity and the $2.8 billion sale of its Advanced Sterilization Products business to Fortive;
  • Just Eat Takeaway.com in its $7.3 billion acquisition of Grubhub;
  • Knorr-Bremse in its $149.5 million acquisition of R.H. Sheppard and the sale of R.H. Sheppard to Balmoral Funds;
  • Lindsay Goldberg and its portfolio companies in connection with multiple transactions, including Amentum’s Reverse Morris Trust merger with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, creating a combined organization with $13 billion in revenue; its $1.9 billion acquisition of PAE and its acquisition of DynCorp International; the acquisition of Golden State Foods; Summit Interconnect’s acquisition of Royal Circuit Solutions; the sale of Pixelle to H.I.G. Capital; the acquisition of a majority interest in Pike; and its acquisition of VDM from ThyssenKrupp;
  • Newcrest in its A$28.8 billion acquisition by Newmont;
  • OLX Group in letgo’s combination with OfferUp of their U.S. businesses and OLX Brazil in its R$2.9 billion acquisition of Grupo ZAP;
  • OUTFRONT Media in the C$410 million divestiture of its Canadian business to Bell Media;
  • Pitney Bowes in the sale of Borderfree to Global‑e and the $700 million sale of its Software Solutions business to Syncsort;
  • Prosus in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Stack Overflow and its $500 million PIPE investment in connection with Churchill II SPAC’s $1.5 billion merger with Skillsoft and acquisition of Global Knowledge;
  • Radius Global Infrastructure in its $3 billion acquisition by EQT Active Core Infrastructure and PSP Investments;
  • Richemont in its $1.1 billion PIPE investment in Farfetch, in partnership with Alibaba;
  • Robinhood in its initial public offering and its $300 million acquisition of TradePMR;
  • Robotic Research in its $228 million Series A financing round;
  • Scientific Games in the $6.05 billion sale of SG Lottery to Brookfield;
  • SMBC Aviation Capital in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Goshawk Aviation;
  • The Snyder family in the $6.05 billion sale of the NFL's Washington Commanders to a partnership led by Josh Harris;
  • Tabula Rasa in its $570 million take‑private acquisition by Nautic;
  • TaskUs’s special committee in the pending $2 billion take-private acquisition by Blackstone and the company’s co‑founders;
  • Unilever in its acquisition of OLLY and its $384 million acquisition of TAZO from Starbucks;
  • Univision in its sale of a majority stake to Searchlight and ForgeLight; 
  • WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, creating Smurfit WestRock; and
  • Wiz in its pending $32 billion acquisition by Google.

Mr. Davis was named a “Rising Star” by Law360 in 2022, recognizing him as one of five outstanding tax lawyers in the nation under the age of 40, and has been recognized by Lawdragon as among the “500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers” and “500 X – The Next Generation.” He has been recognized for his work in the tax arena by The Legal 500 US.

Mr. Davis is a member of the Corporate Tax Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. He frequently speaks on important developments in tax law, including for organizations such as the ABA, D.C. Bar, Federal Bar Association, Practising Law Institute (PLI) and NYU’s Institute on Federal Taxation. In particular, he is a frequent commentator on topics in corporate taxation such as the corporate alternative minimum tax (“CAMT”), having participated in events including PLI’s “Basics of International Taxation,” where he spoke on a panel entitled “Compliance with Minimum Taxes.” Mr. Davis serves as Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches corporate income taxation.

Mr. Davis is from Montclair, New Jersey. He received an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2010, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2014, where he was an Articles Editor of the Journal of Law, Business & Finance, and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2020.

Mr. Davis joined Cravath in 2014. Following a one‑year clerkship with Hon. Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he returned to the Firm in 2016 and was elected a partner in 2021.

Education

  • LL.M., 2020, New York University School of Law
  • J.D., 2014, Stanford Law School
  • A.B., 2010, Princeton University

Clerkships

  • Hon. Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Admitted In

  • New York

Professional Affiliations

American Bar Association

  • Corporate Tax Committee

New York State Bar Association

Organizations

Stanford Law School

  • Lecturer in Law

Rankings

Law360

  • Rising Star: Tax (2022)

Lawdragon

  • 500 X – The Next Generation (2024, 2023)
  • 500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers (2025)

The Legal 500 US

  • International Tax (2024, 2023, 2022)
  • US Taxes: Non‑contentious (2024, 2023, 2022)

Deals & Cases

May 19, 2025

Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A.’s Sustainable Notes Offering

Cravath represented the initial purchasers in connection with the $500 million 144A/Reg. S sustainable notes offering of Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A., one of Latin America's largest forest plantation owners and one of the world's largest producers of pulp and wood products. The transaction closed on May 5, 2025. 

Deals & Cases

May 09, 2025

TaskUs’s Take‑Private Acquisition by its Co‑Founders and Blackstone

On May 9, 2025, TaskUs, Inc. (“TaskUs”), a leading provider of outsourced digital services and next‑generation customer experience to companies, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to become a privately held company. Under the terms of the agreement, an affiliate of Blackstone, TaskUs Co‑Founder and Chief Executive Officer Bryce Maddock and TaskUs Co‑Founder and President Jaspar Weir (collectively the “Buyer Group”) will acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock they do not already own for $16.50 per share in an all-cash transaction. Upon completion of the transaction, the Company’s Class A common stock will no longer be listed on any public market. The TaskUs Board of Directors has approved the transaction upon the unanimous recommendation of a special committee of independent directors (the “Special Committee”), which was formed on March 20, 2025, in response to interest expressed by the Buyer Group in exploring a possible transaction. Cravath is representing the Special Committee in connection with the transaction.

Deals & Cases

May 07, 2025

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation’s $2.725 Billion of Credit Facilities

Cravath represented the administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner in connection with $2.725 billion of credit facilities made available to Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation and certain of its subsidiaries. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail sectors. The facilities consisted of a $2 billion revolving credit facility and a $725 million delayed draw term loan facility. The transaction closed on April 23, 2025.

Deals & Cases

May 02, 2025

Keysight Technologies, Inc.’s Registered Debt Offering

Cravath represented the underwriters in connection with the $750 million registered debt offering of Keysight Technologies, Inc., a global leader in high value, mission critical electronic design and test solutions based on sales of tools and software used by engineers to design and optimize electronic products across various industries. The transaction closed on April 17, 2025.

Deals & Cases

April 24, 2025

FactSet Research Systems Inc.’s $1.5 Billion of Credit Facilities

Cravath represented the borrower, FactSet Research Systems Inc., in connection with the arrangement of $1.5 billion of credit facilities used to refinance existing indebtedness and for working capital and other general corporate purposes. The facilities consisted of a $1 billion revolving credit facility and a $500 million term loan facility. The transactions closed on April 8, 2025.

Activities

May 19, 2025

Cravath Partners Named to Lawdragon’s Inaugural List of Leading Global Tax Lawyers

On May 16, 2025, Cravath partners Ron Creamer, Lauren Angelilli, J. Leonard Teti II, Christopher K. Fargo, Andrew T. Davis and Arvind Ravichandran were named to Lawdragon’s inaugural list of “500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers” in recognition of their work advising clients on the “tax aspects of M&A and other complex transactions.” The list highlights “outstanding leaders” who “preserve the balance between tax responsibilities and fiscal soundness on a global scale.” 

Activities

May 12, 2025

Andrew Davis Speaks at the American Bar Association’s Tax Section 2025 May Tax Meeting

On May 9, 2025, Cravath partner Andrew T. Davis participated in the American Bar Association’s Tax Section 2025 May Tax Meeting, which was held from May 8‑10 in Washington, D.C. The meeting convened leading tax attorneys and government officials to discuss the latest federal, state and local tax policies and recent developments in tax law. Andrew spoke on a panel entitled “Dealing with Section 269: A Transactional Approach,” which reviewed the history of section 269, recent IRS guidance on the section and the current market practice of the section when considering various forms of transactions.

Activities

February 21, 2025

Andrew Davis Speaks at the American Bar Association’s 2025 Midyear Tax Meeting

On February 20, 2025, Cravath partner Andrew T. Davis participated in the American Bar Association’s 2025 Midyear Tax Meeting, which was held from February 19-21 in Los Angeles. The event convened leading tax attorneys and government officials to discuss the latest federal, state and local tax policies and other topics. Andrew spoke on a panel entitled “CAMT Proposed Regulations,” which explored topics related to the recently released corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT) proposed regulations, including CAMT’s application to multinational groups, CAMT considerations in M&A transactions and issues left unaddressed by the proposed regulations.

Publications

January 30, 2025

IRS and Treasury Issue Proposed Regulations for Spin‑Off Transactions

On January 29, 2025, Cravath prepared a memo for its clients entitled “IRS and Treasury Issue Proposed Regulations for Spin‑Off Transactions.” The memo examines the Internal Revenue Service’s recently released proposed regulations, which focus on tax‑free spin‑off transactions. The proposed regulations reflect the IRS’s detailed consideration of the relevant issues in these transactions since its publication last year of Rev. Proc. 2024‑24 and Notice 2024‑38, which provided updated guidelines for taxpayers requesting private letter rulings from the IRS for tax‑free spin‑off and split‑off transactions under Section 355. The memo explores how the proposed regulations address those issues and present new ones, including updates related to retentions of Spinco stock, debt‑for‑equity exchange structuring, the use of proceeds in “boot purges” and contingent liabilities.

Activities

December 12, 2024

Andrew Davis Speaks at PLI’s Tax Strategies 2024 Program

On December 12, 2024, Cravath partner Andrew T. Davis participated in “Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings 2024,” a program presented by the Practising Law Institute from December 11-13 in Los Angeles, California.

Andrew T. Davis focuses his practice on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including spin‑off and private equity transactions, as well as securities offerings and banking transactions.

Mr. Davis’s notable transactions include representing:

  • Afterpay in its $29 billion acquisition by Block;
  • AP WIP Investments in its $860 million acquisition by Landscape Acquisition;
  • Atalaya Capital Management in its $800 million sale to Blue Owl Capital;
  • AXA in its $15.3 billion acquisition of XL;
  • Bacardi in its acquisition of ILEGAL Mezcal;
  • BDT in its majority investment in Marquette Transportation;
  • Bridge Investment Group’s special committee in the pending $1.5 billion acquisition by Apollo;
  • Cable One in the formation of Clearwave Fiber, a joint venture with GTCR, Stephens Capital Partners and The Pritzker Organization;
  • Cano Health shareholders, including members of management, in the $4.4 billion SPAC merger with Jaws Acquisition, which included an $800 million PIPE investment;
  • Deutsche Telekom in its Master Framework Agreement with SoftBank and T‑Mobile, pursuant to which DT consented to SoftBank’s sale of T‑Mobile shares for approximately $20 billion;
  • Disney in the pending combination of its Hulu + Live TV business with Fubo, ESPN’s proposed joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch Venu Sports and ESPN’s strategic alliance with PENN Entertainment to launch ESPN BET;
  • Endeavor’s special committee in the $25 billion take‑private acquisition by Silver Lake;
  • FactSet in its $246.5 million acquisition of LiquidityBook, its $1.925 billion acquisition of CUSIP Global Services from S&P Global and its acquisition of Irwin;
  • Forward Air in its combination with Omni Logistics, creating a $3.7 billion company;
  • Grubhub and Just Eat Takeaway.com in Grubhub’s sale to Wonder;
  • GW Pharmaceuticals in its $7.2 billion acquisition by Jazz Pharmaceuticals;
  • Hibu Group in the sale of its U.S. business to H.I.G. Capital;
  • The special committee of the Hudson board of directors in the sale of all remaining equity interests in Hudson to Dufry;
  • IBM in its acquisitions of AlchemyAPI and Blue Box Group;
  • Johnson & Johnson in connection with multiple transactions, including the IPO and separation of Kenvue, its $14.6 billion acquisition of Intra‑Cellular Therapies, its $2 billion acquisition of Ambrx, its $16.6 billion acquisition of Abiomed, its $6.5 billion acquisition of Momenta, Ethicon’s $3.4 billion acquisition of Auris Health, its $30 billion acquisition of Actelion, its ¥230 billion acquisition of Ci:z, the $2.1 billion sale of LifeScan to Platinum Equity and the $2.8 billion sale of its Advanced Sterilization Products business to Fortive;
  • Just Eat Takeaway.com in its $7.3 billion acquisition of Grubhub;
  • Knorr-Bremse in its $149.5 million acquisition of R.H. Sheppard and the sale of R.H. Sheppard to Balmoral Funds;
  • Lindsay Goldberg and its portfolio companies in connection with multiple transactions, including Amentum’s Reverse Morris Trust merger with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, creating a combined organization with $13 billion in revenue; its $1.9 billion acquisition of PAE and its acquisition of DynCorp International; the acquisition of Golden State Foods; Summit Interconnect’s acquisition of Royal Circuit Solutions; the sale of Pixelle to H.I.G. Capital; the acquisition of a majority interest in Pike; and its acquisition of VDM from ThyssenKrupp;
  • Newcrest in its A$28.8 billion acquisition by Newmont;
  • OLX Group in letgo’s combination with OfferUp of their U.S. businesses and OLX Brazil in its R$2.9 billion acquisition of Grupo ZAP;
  • OUTFRONT Media in the C$410 million divestiture of its Canadian business to Bell Media;
  • Pitney Bowes in the sale of Borderfree to Global‑e and the $700 million sale of its Software Solutions business to Syncsort;
  • Prosus in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Stack Overflow and its $500 million PIPE investment in connection with Churchill II SPAC’s $1.5 billion merger with Skillsoft and acquisition of Global Knowledge;
  • Radius Global Infrastructure in its $3 billion acquisition by EQT Active Core Infrastructure and PSP Investments;
  • Richemont in its $1.1 billion PIPE investment in Farfetch, in partnership with Alibaba;
  • Robinhood in its initial public offering and its $300 million acquisition of TradePMR;
  • Robotic Research in its $228 million Series A financing round;
  • Scientific Games in the $6.05 billion sale of SG Lottery to Brookfield;
  • SMBC Aviation Capital in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Goshawk Aviation;
  • The Snyder family in the $6.05 billion sale of the NFL's Washington Commanders to a partnership led by Josh Harris;
  • Tabula Rasa in its $570 million take‑private acquisition by Nautic;
  • TaskUs’s special committee in the pending $2 billion take-private acquisition by Blackstone and the company’s co‑founders;
  • Unilever in its acquisition of OLLY and its $384 million acquisition of TAZO from Starbucks;
  • Univision in its sale of a majority stake to Searchlight and ForgeLight; 
  • WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, creating Smurfit WestRock; and
  • Wiz in its pending $32 billion acquisition by Google.

Mr. Davis was named a “Rising Star” by Law360 in 2022, recognizing him as one of five outstanding tax lawyers in the nation under the age of 40, and has been recognized by Lawdragon as among the “500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers” and “500 X – The Next Generation.” He has been recognized for his work in the tax arena by The Legal 500 US.

Mr. Davis is a member of the Corporate Tax Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. He frequently speaks on important developments in tax law, including for organizations such as the ABA, D.C. Bar, Federal Bar Association, Practising Law Institute (PLI) and NYU’s Institute on Federal Taxation. In particular, he is a frequent commentator on topics in corporate taxation such as the corporate alternative minimum tax (“CAMT”), having participated in events including PLI’s “Basics of International Taxation,” where he spoke on a panel entitled “Compliance with Minimum Taxes.” Mr. Davis serves as Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches corporate income taxation.

Mr. Davis is from Montclair, New Jersey. He received an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2010, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2014, where he was an Articles Editor of the Journal of Law, Business & Finance, and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2020.

Mr. Davis joined Cravath in 2014. Following a one‑year clerkship with Hon. Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he returned to the Firm in 2016 and was elected a partner in 2021.

Mr. Davis’s notable transactions include representing:

  • Afterpay in its $29 billion acquisition by Block;
  • AP WIP Investments in its $860 million acquisition by Landscape Acquisition;
  • Atalaya Capital Management in its $800 million sale to Blue Owl Capital;
  • AXA in its $15.3 billion acquisition of XL;
  • Bacardi in its acquisition of ILEGAL Mezcal;
  • BDT in its majority investment in Marquette Transportation;
  • Bridge Investment Group’s special committee in the pending $1.5 billion acquisition by Apollo;
  • Cable One in the formation of Clearwave Fiber, a joint venture with GTCR, Stephens Capital Partners and The Pritzker Organization;
  • Cano Health shareholders, including members of management, in the $4.4 billion SPAC merger with Jaws Acquisition, which included an $800 million PIPE investment;
  • Deutsche Telekom in its Master Framework Agreement with SoftBank and T‑Mobile, pursuant to which DT consented to SoftBank’s sale of T‑Mobile shares for approximately $20 billion;
  • Disney in the pending combination of its Hulu + Live TV business with Fubo, ESPN’s proposed joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to launch Venu Sports and ESPN’s strategic alliance with PENN Entertainment to launch ESPN BET;
  • Endeavor’s special committee in the $25 billion take‑private acquisition by Silver Lake;
  • FactSet in its $246.5 million acquisition of LiquidityBook, its $1.925 billion acquisition of CUSIP Global Services from S&P Global and its acquisition of Irwin;
  • Forward Air in its combination with Omni Logistics, creating a $3.7 billion company;
  • Grubhub and Just Eat Takeaway.com in Grubhub’s sale to Wonder;
  • GW Pharmaceuticals in its $7.2 billion acquisition by Jazz Pharmaceuticals;
  • Hibu Group in the sale of its U.S. business to H.I.G. Capital;
  • The special committee of the Hudson board of directors in the sale of all remaining equity interests in Hudson to Dufry;
  • IBM in its acquisitions of AlchemyAPI and Blue Box Group;
  • Johnson & Johnson in connection with multiple transactions, including the IPO and separation of Kenvue, its $14.6 billion acquisition of Intra‑Cellular Therapies, its $2 billion acquisition of Ambrx, its $16.6 billion acquisition of Abiomed, its $6.5 billion acquisition of Momenta, Ethicon’s $3.4 billion acquisition of Auris Health, its $30 billion acquisition of Actelion, its ¥230 billion acquisition of Ci:z, the $2.1 billion sale of LifeScan to Platinum Equity and the $2.8 billion sale of its Advanced Sterilization Products business to Fortive;
  • Just Eat Takeaway.com in its $7.3 billion acquisition of Grubhub;
  • Knorr-Bremse in its $149.5 million acquisition of R.H. Sheppard and the sale of R.H. Sheppard to Balmoral Funds;
  • Lindsay Goldberg and its portfolio companies in connection with multiple transactions, including Amentum’s Reverse Morris Trust merger with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, creating a combined organization with $13 billion in revenue; its $1.9 billion acquisition of PAE and its acquisition of DynCorp International; the acquisition of Golden State Foods; Summit Interconnect’s acquisition of Royal Circuit Solutions; the sale of Pixelle to H.I.G. Capital; the acquisition of a majority interest in Pike; and its acquisition of VDM from ThyssenKrupp;
  • Newcrest in its A$28.8 billion acquisition by Newmont;
  • OLX Group in letgo’s combination with OfferUp of their U.S. businesses and OLX Brazil in its R$2.9 billion acquisition of Grupo ZAP;
  • OUTFRONT Media in the C$410 million divestiture of its Canadian business to Bell Media;
  • Pitney Bowes in the sale of Borderfree to Global‑e and the $700 million sale of its Software Solutions business to Syncsort;
  • Prosus in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Stack Overflow and its $500 million PIPE investment in connection with Churchill II SPAC’s $1.5 billion merger with Skillsoft and acquisition of Global Knowledge;
  • Radius Global Infrastructure in its $3 billion acquisition by EQT Active Core Infrastructure and PSP Investments;
  • Richemont in its $1.1 billion PIPE investment in Farfetch, in partnership with Alibaba;
  • Robinhood in its initial public offering and its $300 million acquisition of TradePMR;
  • Robotic Research in its $228 million Series A financing round;
  • Scientific Games in the $6.05 billion sale of SG Lottery to Brookfield;
  • SMBC Aviation Capital in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Goshawk Aviation;
  • The Snyder family in the $6.05 billion sale of the NFL's Washington Commanders to a partnership led by Josh Harris;
  • Tabula Rasa in its $570 million take‑private acquisition by Nautic;
  • TaskUs’s special committee in the pending $2 billion take-private acquisition by Blackstone and the company’s co‑founders;
  • Unilever in its acquisition of OLLY and its $384 million acquisition of TAZO from Starbucks;
  • Univision in its sale of a majority stake to Searchlight and ForgeLight; 
  • WestRock in its $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, creating Smurfit WestRock; and
  • Wiz in its pending $32 billion acquisition by Google.

Mr. Davis was named a “Rising Star” by Law360 in 2022, recognizing him as one of five outstanding tax lawyers in the nation under the age of 40, and has been recognized by Lawdragon as among the “500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers” and “500 X – The Next Generation.” He has been recognized for his work in the tax arena by The Legal 500 US.

Mr. Davis is a member of the Corporate Tax Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. He frequently speaks on important developments in tax law, including for organizations such as the ABA, D.C. Bar, Federal Bar Association, Practising Law Institute (PLI) and NYU’s Institute on Federal Taxation. In particular, he is a frequent commentator on topics in corporate taxation such as the corporate alternative minimum tax (“CAMT”), having participated in events including PLI’s “Basics of International Taxation,” where he spoke on a panel entitled “Compliance with Minimum Taxes.” Mr. Davis serves as Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where he teaches corporate income taxation.

Mr. Davis is from Montclair, New Jersey. He received an A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2010, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2014, where he was an Articles Editor of the Journal of Law, Business & Finance, and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 2020.

Mr. Davis joined Cravath in 2014. Following a one‑year clerkship with Hon. Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he returned to the Firm in 2016 and was elected a partner in 2021.

Education

  • LL.M., 2020, New York University School of Law
  • J.D., 2014, Stanford Law School
  • A.B., 2010, Princeton University

Clerkships

  • Hon. Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Admitted In

  • New York

Professional Affiliations

American Bar Association

  • Corporate Tax Committee

New York State Bar Association

Organizations

Stanford Law School

  • Lecturer in Law

Rankings

Law360

  • Rising Star: Tax (2022)

Lawdragon

  • 500 X – The Next Generation (2024, 2023)
  • 500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers (2025)

The Legal 500 US

  • International Tax (2024, 2023, 2022)
  • US Taxes: Non‑contentious (2024, 2023, 2022)

Deals & Cases

May 19, 2025

Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A.’s Sustainable Notes Offering

Cravath represented the initial purchasers in connection with the $500 million 144A/Reg. S sustainable notes offering of Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A., one of Latin America's largest forest plantation owners and one of the world's largest producers of pulp and wood products. The transaction closed on May 5, 2025. 

Deals & Cases

May 09, 2025

TaskUs’s Take‑Private Acquisition by its Co‑Founders and Blackstone

On May 9, 2025, TaskUs, Inc. (“TaskUs”), a leading provider of outsourced digital services and next‑generation customer experience to companies, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to become a privately held company. Under the terms of the agreement, an affiliate of Blackstone, TaskUs Co‑Founder and Chief Executive Officer Bryce Maddock and TaskUs Co‑Founder and President Jaspar Weir (collectively the “Buyer Group”) will acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock they do not already own for $16.50 per share in an all-cash transaction. Upon completion of the transaction, the Company’s Class A common stock will no longer be listed on any public market. The TaskUs Board of Directors has approved the transaction upon the unanimous recommendation of a special committee of independent directors (the “Special Committee”), which was formed on March 20, 2025, in response to interest expressed by the Buyer Group in exploring a possible transaction. Cravath is representing the Special Committee in connection with the transaction.

Deals & Cases

May 07, 2025

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation’s $2.725 Billion of Credit Facilities

Cravath represented the administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner in connection with $2.725 billion of credit facilities made available to Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation and certain of its subsidiaries. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail sectors. The facilities consisted of a $2 billion revolving credit facility and a $725 million delayed draw term loan facility. The transaction closed on April 23, 2025.

Deals & Cases

May 02, 2025

Keysight Technologies, Inc.’s Registered Debt Offering

Cravath represented the underwriters in connection with the $750 million registered debt offering of Keysight Technologies, Inc., a global leader in high value, mission critical electronic design and test solutions based on sales of tools and software used by engineers to design and optimize electronic products across various industries. The transaction closed on April 17, 2025.

Deals & Cases

April 24, 2025

FactSet Research Systems Inc.’s $1.5 Billion of Credit Facilities

Cravath represented the borrower, FactSet Research Systems Inc., in connection with the arrangement of $1.5 billion of credit facilities used to refinance existing indebtedness and for working capital and other general corporate purposes. The facilities consisted of a $1 billion revolving credit facility and a $500 million term loan facility. The transactions closed on April 8, 2025.

Activities

May 19, 2025

Cravath Partners Named to Lawdragon’s Inaugural List of Leading Global Tax Lawyers

On May 16, 2025, Cravath partners Ron Creamer, Lauren Angelilli, J. Leonard Teti II, Christopher K. Fargo, Andrew T. Davis and Arvind Ravichandran were named to Lawdragon’s inaugural list of “500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers” in recognition of their work advising clients on the “tax aspects of M&A and other complex transactions.” The list highlights “outstanding leaders” who “preserve the balance between tax responsibilities and fiscal soundness on a global scale.” 

Activities

May 12, 2025

Andrew Davis Speaks at the American Bar Association’s Tax Section 2025 May Tax Meeting

On May 9, 2025, Cravath partner Andrew T. Davis participated in the American Bar Association’s Tax Section 2025 May Tax Meeting, which was held from May 8‑10 in Washington, D.C. The meeting convened leading tax attorneys and government officials to discuss the latest federal, state and local tax policies and recent developments in tax law. Andrew spoke on a panel entitled “Dealing with Section 269: A Transactional Approach,” which reviewed the history of section 269, recent IRS guidance on the section and the current market practice of the section when considering various forms of transactions.

Activities

February 21, 2025

Andrew Davis Speaks at the American Bar Association’s 2025 Midyear Tax Meeting

On February 20, 2025, Cravath partner Andrew T. Davis participated in the American Bar Association’s 2025 Midyear Tax Meeting, which was held from February 19-21 in Los Angeles. The event convened leading tax attorneys and government officials to discuss the latest federal, state and local tax policies and other topics. Andrew spoke on a panel entitled “CAMT Proposed Regulations,” which explored topics related to the recently released corporate alternative minimum tax (CAMT) proposed regulations, including CAMT’s application to multinational groups, CAMT considerations in M&A transactions and issues left unaddressed by the proposed regulations.

Publications

January 30, 2025

IRS and Treasury Issue Proposed Regulations for Spin‑Off Transactions

On January 29, 2025, Cravath prepared a memo for its clients entitled “IRS and Treasury Issue Proposed Regulations for Spin‑Off Transactions.” The memo examines the Internal Revenue Service’s recently released proposed regulations, which focus on tax‑free spin‑off transactions. The proposed regulations reflect the IRS’s detailed consideration of the relevant issues in these transactions since its publication last year of Rev. Proc. 2024‑24 and Notice 2024‑38, which provided updated guidelines for taxpayers requesting private letter rulings from the IRS for tax‑free spin‑off and split‑off transactions under Section 355. The memo explores how the proposed regulations address those issues and present new ones, including updates related to retentions of Spinco stock, debt‑for‑equity exchange structuring, the use of proceeds in “boot purges” and contingent liabilities.

Activities

December 12, 2024

Andrew Davis Speaks at PLI’s Tax Strategies 2024 Program

On December 12, 2024, Cravath partner Andrew T. Davis participated in “Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings 2024,” a program presented by the Practising Law Institute from December 11-13 in Los Angeles, California.

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