Michelle A.
Sargent

Ms. Sargent’s notable matters prior to joining Cravath include representing:

• The Barilla Group in its acquisition of GOODLES
• Fox in its $22 billion acquisition of Roku
• The Mark Anthony Group in its acquisition of Lonkero (d/b/a The Long Drink Company) and in the formation of the Más+ by Messi hydration beverage business, an international product venture with Lionel Messi, including related equity and licensing arrangements
• The Home Depot in its $5.5 billion acquisition of GMS through its subsidiary SRS Distribution
• Sunoco in its $9.1 billion acquisition of Parkland
• Bell Canada in its C$5.0 billion acquisition of Ziply Fiber
• John Wiley & Sons in its sale of Wiley Edge to Inspirit Capital and its approximately $200 million sale of Wiley University Services to Academic Partnerships (a portfolio company of Vistria Group)
• MarketAxess in its acquisition of Pragma, its $150 million acquisition of LiquidityEdge and its acquisition of MuniBrokers
• SiriusXM in its up to $325 million acquisition of Stitcher and its acquisitions of Team Coco, 99% Invisible and Cloud Cover Music
• NEOGEN in its $5.3 billion combination with the Food Safety business of 3M, in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that implied an enterprise value of the combined company of $9.3 billion
• MGM Resorts International in its $17.2 billion sale of MGM Growth Properties to VICI Properties
• Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Bilcar FT and Trasimene Capital FT, in its $7.3 billion combination with Alight Solutions
• Benefytt Technologies in its $625 million take-private by Madison Dearborn Partners
• Maxim Integrated Products in its $27.5 billion acquisition by Analog Devices
• AK Steel in its $360 million acquisition of Precision Partners Holding Company and its approximately $3 billion sale to Cleveland Cliffs
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) in its acquisition of a minority stake in Cole Parmer (n/k/a Antylia Scientific) (a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital) and in the formation of Trivium Packaging through a combination of OTPP’s portfolio company, Exal Corporation, with the Food & Specialty Metal Packaging business of Ardagh Group
• Belmond in its $3.2 billion acquisition by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, as part of a consortium led by BC Partners and including Beamer Investment (GIC) and certain members of management of GFL Environmental Holdings, in the consortium’s approximately $5.1 billion acquisition of GFL and subsequently in GFL’s $2.8 billion merger with Waste Industries
• PSAV, Goldman Sachs and Olympus Partners (PSAV’s sponsors) in the sale of PSAV to Blackstone
• Sanofi in its $11.6 billion acquisition of Bioverativ
• Dow in its approximately $40 billion spin-off from DowDuPont as part of DowDuPont’s separation into three independent, publicly traded companies, one each for its agriculture, materials science and specialty products businesses
• Gurnet Point Capital in its take-private of Innocoll
• Metaldyne Performance Group (a portfolio company of American Securities) in its $3.3 billion sale to American Axle & Manufacturing
• Golfsmith International Holdings (formerly a portfolio company of OMERS Private Equity) in its $160 million global sale of its assets, which included a U.S. 363 bankruptcy sale, to Dick’s Sporting Goods
• Aéropostale in its $243 million 363 bankruptcy sale to a consortium including General Growth Properties (n/k/a GGP), Authentic Brands Group, Simon Property Group, Gordon Brothers Retail Partners and Hilco Merchant Resources
• Media General in its $4.6 billion sale to Nexstar Broadcasting Group
• The Dow Chemical Company in its $130 billion all-stock merger of equals with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
• Interval Leisure Group in its $1.5 billion acquisition, via a Reverse Morris Trust transaction, of Vistana Signature Experiences

Ms. Sargent has been recognized as a “Rising Star” in mergers and acquisitions by Law360 and IFLR1000, as an “Emerging Leader” by The M&A Advisor and as among Lawdragon’s 500 X – The Next Generation.

Ms. Sargent is originally from Nottingham, England. She received a B.A. summa cum laude from Tufts University in 2009 and a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 2014, where she was an executive editor of the Michigan Law Review.

Ms. Sargent joined Cravath as a partner in 2026.