Bothwick, Jay E.

Current Employment Position(s)

Chair, Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group

Lawyer Overview

Jay Bothwick is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group and chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. He joined the firm in 1981.

Practice

Mr. Bothwick focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, and has significant experience in venture capital and corporate finance transactions as well. He has advised public and private companies, both domestically and overseas, in mergers and acquisitions, tender and exchange offers, proxy contests and public and private offerings.

Recent Highlights

Representation of:

• Airvana in its acquisition by an investor group led by S.A.C. Capital for $530 million
• Aquent in its successful proxy contest for Computer Horizons
• Avid in its acquisition of Pinnacle Systems for $462 million
• BJ’s Wholesale Club in its acquisition by Leonard Green and CVC for $2.8 billion
• The Special Committee of the Blockbuster Board of Directors with respect to its $905 million special distribution and split-off from Viacom
• DoubleClick in its acquisition by Hellman & Friedman for $1.1 billion
• EqualLogic in its acquisition by Dell for $1.4 billion
• First Marblehead in Goldman Sachs Group's investment of $260 million
• IDX Systems in its acquisition by GE Medical for $1.2 billion
• Imagitas in its acquisition by Pitney Bowes for $260 million
• Kronos in its acquisition by Hellman & Friedman for $1.8 billion
• Lucent Technologies in its acquisition of Riverstone Networks for $170 million
• MapInfo in its acquisition by Pitney Bowes for $472 million
• MatrixOne in its acquisition by Dassault Systèmes for $408 million
• SS&C Technologies in its acquisition by Carlyle for $941 million
• Staples in its acquisition of Corporate Express for $4.8 billion 
• Starent Networks in its acquisition by Cisco for $2.9 billion
• Teradyne in its acquisition of Eagle Test Systems, Inc. for $350 million
• Teradyne in its acquisition of Nextest Systems for $325 million
• Thermo Electron in its $572 million sale of Thermo CardioSystems
• Wider Than in its acquisition by RealNetworks for $350 million

Professional Activities

Mr. Bothwick is a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations. He is a member of the Negotiated Acquisitions Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, and serves on a number of task forces of this Committee.

Honors and Awards

• Recognized as a Massachusetts leader in the corporate/M&A field in the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers in Business
• Listed as one of the world's leading merger & acquisition lawyers in the International Who's Who of Merger & Acquisition Lawyers 2010 and 2011
• Selected by his peers as one of the The Best Lawyers in America in the area of M&A law (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012)
• Named a "New England Super Lawyer" (formerly "Massachusetts Super Lawyer") in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 issues of Boston Magazine
• Listed as a leading lawyer in the PLC Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook, 2006 and 2007/08

Publications

Mr. Bothwick is author of a chapter entitled "Familiarizing Yourself with the Client" in Winning Legal Strategies for Mergers & Acquisitions, published by Aspatore Books.

Areas of Practice

• Corporate
• Corporate and Transactional
• Mergers and Acquisitions

Representative Cases

• Chambers USA 2008

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Joint Ventures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Public Finance, Transactions, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts

Education

• Columbia Law School, 1981
  JD
• Bowdoin College, 1978
  AB
  Honors: summa cum laude

Published Works

• SEC Proposes Rules for Say-on-Compensation Votes, 2010
• FASB Proposes to Modify New Accounting Standard for Contingencies in Business Combinations, 2008
• M&A Implications of New Changes to Rules 144 and 145 -- SEC Delivers an Early Holiday Gift to M&A Deal Makers, 2007
• Familiarizing Yourself with the Client, 2005
• Corporate Advisor, 2002
• Option Repricings Face New SEC Hurdles, 2001

Address

60 State Street
Boston, MA 02109

Phones

+1 617 526 6526 (Business Phone)

Faxes

+1 617 526 5000 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.wilmerhale.com