Michael Dabney joined Centerview Partners in 2007. He has advised on over $275 billon of transactions across a broad range of industries, including buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, special committee assignments, shareholder activism defense, restructurings and minority close-outs, as well as strategic advisory assignments. In addition, Mr. Dabney co-heads the Special Committee and Board Advisory practice at Centerview.
Recent representative Food & Consumer Products transactions include the following: Certain Alani Nu shareholders on Alani Nu’s $1.8bn sale to Celsius; Advent International on its acquisition of Sauer Brands; Daou Vineyards on its sale to Treasury Wine Estates for up to $1bn; Bansk Group and its portfolio company Arcadia on Arcadia’s acquisition of Avrio Health; the BrandCo Ad-Hoc Group to Revlon on the Company’s Plan of Reorganization; Joseph Phelps on its sale to Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy and Mondelez’s acquisitions of Tate’s Cookies, Give & Go, Hu and Chipita.
Selected recent special committee advisory work includes the following: Charter Communications on its $16bn acquisition of Liberty Broadband, Squarespace on its $7bn sale to Permira; PowerSchool on its $6bn sale to Bain Capital; Endeavor on its $25bn sale to Silver Lake; HireRight on its $1.7bn sale to General Atlantic and Stone Point, Sovos Brands on its $2.7bn sale to Campbell Soup, Weber on its $3.7bn sale to BDT Capital Partners and Tripadvisor on its $435mm acquisition of Liberty TripAdvisor.
Other notable transactions include the following: CVS Health’s $77 billion acquisition of Aetna; Pfizer’s Consumer Healthcare joint venture with GSK; Heinz’s $28 billion sale to 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway; Procter & Gamble on its proxy fight with Trian and its $15 billion sale of beauty brands to Coty in a Reverse Morris Trust; Mondelez’s formation of a global coffee joint venture with D.E Master Blenders 1753 and $14 billion acquisition of Keurig Green Mountain; Kraft Foods $27 billion spin-off of its North American grocery business, $22 billion acquisition of Cadbury and $4 billion sale of its North American pizza business to Nestlé; the $6 billion sale of Big Heart Pet Brands to J.M. Smucker and Altria’s $12 billion acquisition of UST.
Mr. Dabney graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in economics. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.