Biography
Blair Stamas is an associate in Weil’s Private Equity practice and is based in New York. Blair participates in the representation of private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies with respect to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
Experience*
- BC Partners in its take private of Presidio, Inc.
- Special Committee of the Board of Directors of FGL Holdings in its $2.7 billion acquisition by Fidelity National Financial
- Further Global Capital Management in a consortium investment in Duff & Phelps
- GlaxoSmithKline in its $12.7 billion joint venture with Pfizer to combine their consumer health businesses
- Harland Clarke Holdings in its sale of Scantron Corporation to Transom Capital Group
- IBM in its acquisition of Octo
- IBM in its sale of healthcare data and analytics assets to Francisco Partners
- Ingersoll-Rand in its acquisition of Precision Flow Systems
- JAWS Acquisition Corp. in its $4.4 billion business combination with Cano Health
- JAWS Spitfire Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Barry Sternlicht, in its $1.6 billion business combination with Velo3D
- Johnson & Johnson in its acquisition of neuroscience assets from Yumanity Therapeutics
- Kinderhook Industries in its acquisition of EcoSouth Services
- KKR in its sale of Calabrio to Thoma Bravo
- L Catterton in its acquisition and disposition of Cholula
- Nordic Capital in its acquisition of Orchid Orthopedic Solutions
- Siris Capital in its receipt of minority investments by affiliates of Wafra Inc. and Landmark Partners, LLC
- Starr Investment Holdings on its $700 million minority investment in Radiology Partners
- Steiner Leisure Limited on its investment in common equity and warrants in OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited
- Swvl Inc. in its business combination with Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital
- Two Sigma Impact and BayPine in the acquisition of Penn Foster
- WellCare Health Plans in its $17.3 billion acquisition by Centene Corporation
Prior to joining Weil, Blair was an associate at another international law firm.
Blair received her J.D., cum laude, from Cornell Law School where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, and her B.A. from Yale University.
*Matters noted above include those handled prior to joining Weil.