Speaker 02.12.25
02.12
IBA 6th Silicon Hills Conference – the Tech Epicentre of Texas: from Startup to Exit
The Otis Hotel Austin
Austin, TX
Veronica Nunn is one of Pillsbury’s leading M&A and Private Equity partners, routinely called upon to steer companies and private equity sponsors through their most complex, high-stakes transactions. She leads transformative mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments and divestitures, joint ventures, reorganizations, equity financings and liquidity events, and serves as a trusted adviser on corporate matters.
Widely recognized for her judgment, deal leadership and command of market dynamics, Veronica is known for bringing clarity and momentum to highly negotiated, time-sensitive matters. She offers deep experience in the energy and technology sectors and a broad cross-industry perspective spanning manufacturing, retail, media, sports and business services. Her background as a former consultant and quantitative developer at a financial technology company enhances her ability to advise on sophisticated, innovation-driven transactions.
Representative Experience
- Represented Chelsea Football Club in its £4.25 billion acquisition by a consortium led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, a transaction recognized as Private Equity Deal of the Year by The Deal and M&A Team of the Year (Large Deal – £1bn or more) by Law.com, which described the transaction as “the largest, most technically complex and fast-moving M&A transaction in the history of sport.”
- Represented NTT Data in multiple acquisitions, including the acquisition of digital transformation company Vectorform, data, analytics and advisory firm Aspirent, global MuleSoft consulting leader Apisero, and digital strategy, design and engineering company Postlight LLC.
- Represented Clearwater Paper Corporation in the $1.06 billion sale of its tissue business to Sofidel America Corporation, a subsidiary of Sofidel S.p.A., a leading manufacturer of paper for hygienic and domestic use.
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- Represented Kiteworks in its $456 million growth equity investment from Insight Partners and Sixth Street Growth.
- Represented Foursquare Labs, Inc. in its acquisition of Unfolded Inc., a geospatial analytics and visualizations platform.
- Represented NextEra Energy Partners in its acquisition of an approximately 400-megawatt portfolio of long-term contracted wind assets from Brookfield Renewable.
- Represented The Raine Group in its investment into Univision Holdings Inc. in connection with its merger with Grupo Televisa S.A.B.
- Represented Spin Master Corp. in its $950 million acquisition of Melissa & Doug, a widely recognized and trusted early childhood brand, a transaction awarded Canada M&A Deal of the Year by M&A Atlas Awards.
- Represented Clearwater Paper Corporation in its $700 million acquisition of an Augusta, Georgia-based bleached paperboard manufacturing facility from Graphic Packaging Holding Company, a consumer packaging designer and producer.
- Represented 24 Exchange Bermuda in its acquisition of the assets of 11B Technologies, a provider of risk management systems for FX Spot, FX Swaps, FX NDF, Crypto Spot and Crypto NDFs.
- Represented Shoe Palace Corporation in its acquisition by JD Sports Fashion for approximately $680 million in cash and equity.
- Represented NextEra Energy Partners in its acquisition of GridLiance, an independent electric transmission holding company, from affiliates of Blackstone for approximately $660 million.
- Represented Foursquare Labs Inc. in its merger with Factual Inc., a location-based technology and data company.
- Represented Energy Future Holdings in its $18.8 billion sale to Sempra Energy.
- Represented WGL Holdings in connection with its $6.4 billion sale to AltaGas Ltd.
- Represented MidOcean Partners in the sale of System One (a professional staffing firm) to Thomas H. Lee Partners.
- Represented an independent refiner in connection with the elimination of incentive distribution rights by its affiliated MLP in exchange for common units.
- Represented an NYSE-listed multinational oil and natural gas services company in a cross-border sale of a division of its business.
- Represented a financial services firm in the consolidation of a multi-investor partnership.
- Represented a national health care company in its sale to a strategic purchaser.
- Represented a commodity company in its sale to a private equity fund.
- Represented an independent oil refining company in its multibillion merger of equals.
- Represented an NYSE-listed applied technology company in a bolt-on acquisition.
- Represented a retail energy provider in its acquisition of a majority interest of an energy services company.
- Represented a private equity fund in the formation of a joint venture and its bid into Mexico’s offshore oil auction.
- Represented a private equity fund in its $1 billion exit from a medical data company.
- Represented Energy Future Holdings in its $18.7 billion sale to NextEra Energy and the separation of its operating businesses.
- Represented Southcross Holdings LP, a gas gathering, compression and transportation holdco, and its subsidiaries (including Southcross Energy Partners L.P.) in the implementation of its restructuring through a prepackaged chapter 11 bankruptcy—the first sponsor-backed, prepackaged bankruptcy in the oil and gas industry.
- Represented a private investor in connection with the acquisition of interests in an E&P joint venture.
- Represented the Blackstone Group in connection with the formation of the Vine Oil & Gas joint venture and the subsequent purchase of Haynesville Shale assets from Royal Dutch Shell.
- Represented EIG Global Energy Partners in its definitive agreement to invest $1 billion in Breitburn Energy Partners LP through the purchase of $650 million of senior secured second lien notes and $350 million of perpetual convertible preferred units.
- Represented an Alaska regional corporation in forming a joint venture gas storage company.
- Represented an MLP in its acquisition of a storage facility with millions of barrels of capacity and its related rail facilities.
- Represented Strayer Education in its $1.9 billion merger of equals with Capella Education Company.
- Represented an ASX-listed technical service provider in its acquisition of a privately held oil and gas services company.
- Represented an NYSE-listed energy company in its multibillion-dollar redomestication from Delaware to the UK.
Professional Highlights
- Fellow, 2022 Leadership Counsel on Legal Diversity Program
- Co-Leader of Pillsbury’s Women of Impact Network
- Former leader of Pillsbury’s Austin, Texas, corporate group
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- Civic Engagement
- Veronica has served as a lecturer-in-law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, where she taught a practical skills course on contract drafting.
- Associations
- Women’s Energy Network
- American Bar Association
- Speaking Engagements
- “Managing Growth in Volatile Markets,” 2022 Austin Liquidity Summit, with Kiwi Camara, CEO of DISCO, and Shyam Kamadolli, managing director of Fine Structure Ventures. Moderator.
- The Deal’s Webcast on Energy & Infrastructure M&A and Investing for Net-Zero: 2022 Outlook, with Sesh Raghavan, managing director, Power, Utilities & Renewables, Evercore, Sandeep Mor, senior vice president, Corporate Development, Sempra Energy, Caroline McGeough, operating partner, Energy Impact Partners, and Rahu Advani, CEO and managing partner, SER Capital Partners. Moderator.
- “Case Law Matters: Drafting and ‘Control’ Lessons that Every Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Lawyer Should Learn, But Not the Hard Way,” The American Bar Association’s Business Law Section’s Spring 2022 Meeting. Panelist.
- The American Bar Association’s Business Law M&A Jurisprudence Subcommittee Meeting on the topic of the Delaware Court of Chancery’s March 2022 ruling in Level 4 Yoga, LLC v. CorePower Yoga. Presenter.
- Firm Publications
- “American Bar Association’s Annual Survey of Judicial Developments Pertaining to Mergers & Acquisitions,” August 7, 2023. Coauthor.
- “U.S. M&A: Finding Opportunities in the Unknown,” 2022 Edition a collaboration with Mergermarket
- “My Brother’s Keeper: When Do Minority Stockholders Risk Being Considered ‘Controllers’ of a Delaware Corporation?,” July 28, 2020. Coauthor.
- “When the Negotiator of Deal Terms Is Negotiating Personal Compensation: Lessons for Board Members,” July 8, 2020. Coauthor.
Education
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J.D., Stanford Law School
B.A., Amherst College
Admissions
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District of Columbia
New York
Texas