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Jeremy Jacobs joined Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher in June 2000. He provides ongoing communications counseling for clients across a wide range of industries in special situations such as mergers and acquisitions, proxy contests, management change, corporate restructurings and realignments, regulatory and government investigations, litigation support, accounting issues and earning restatements.
Mr. Jacobs has substantial experience working with companies involved in proxy contests against dissident shareholders, including GenCorp’s defense against Steel Partners and Pirate Capital; KT&G’s defense against Carl Icahn and Steel Partners; Inter-Tel’s proxy contest against former CEO Steve Mihaylo; Yardville National Bank’s proxy contest with a group led by Lawrence Seidman; and Six Flags’ opposition to Dan Snyder’s consent solicitation.
His experience with mergers and acquisitions has included a variety of contested and friendly transactions, among them Express Scripts’ proposed acquisition of Caremark; the proposed buyout of Clear Channel; ADVO’s acquisition by Valassis; US Airways’ proposal to merge with Delta Air Lines; Illumina’s acquisition of Solexa; the offer to acquire Swift Transportation by its founder Jerry Moyes; Energy Partners’ defense against an unsolicited takeover bid from Woodside Petroleum and its exploration of strategic alternatives; Verizon’s merger with MCI and opposition to Qwest’s competing bid; Fisher Scientific’s acquisitions of Oxoid and Dharmacon, its merger with Apogent, and its acquisition by Thermo Electron; Taubman Centers’ successful defense against an unsolicited takeover bid from Simon Property Group and Westfield America; Walter Hewlett’s opposition to the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger; and Conoco’s acquisitions of Gulf Canada and Gulf Indonesia and its merger with Phillips Petroleum.
Mr. Jacobs graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in English Literature. He received an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a Teaching Fellow and was accepted for candidacy by the Ph.D. program in Critical and Cultural Studies. | 