Weather Channel, in a multibillion-dollar deal The sale of the Warner Music Group to Access Industries by private equity firms Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee, for $3.3 billion Genzyme's acquisition by Sanofi-Aventis, for $20.1 billion NSTAR's merger with Northeast Utilities, for $7.1 billion China Everbright's acquisition of Focus Media, for $3.7 billion TPG Capital's acquisition of J.Crew, for $3 billion A private equity group's acquisition of Dunkin' Donuts, for $2.4 billion Berkshire Partners acquisition of Lightower Fiber Networks and Sidera Networks, for $2 billion The Bare Escentuals merger with Shiseido of Japan, a $1.7 billion deal Bain Capital's acquisition of MYOB, Australia's largest financial software developer; Bain Capital’s acquisition of Bellsystem24 TPG Capital and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board’s $5.2 billion acquisition of IMS Health Inc., a provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and health care industries Genzyme Corporation’s $2.9 billion deal with Bayer Schering Pharma AG that expanded Genzyme's oncology portfolio by giving the company rights to marketed cancer drugs and control of a program in multiple sclerosis. The transaction was recognized as a "Deal of Distinction" by the Licensing Executives Society in September 2010 Bain Capital’s 2018 sale by Toshiba Corp. of its semiconductor business to a group that included Apple, Seagate, Kingston, Hoya, Dell Technologies and SK Hynix. The transaction was Asia’s largest leveraged buyout and private equity deal ever, and was valued at approximately $18 billion Prominent cases Ropes & Gray lawyers have litigated high-profile cases, including: Defending physicians’ First Amendment rights in Wollschlaeger v. Governor of Florida. The case concerned a Florida law banning doctors from inquiring about patients’ gun ownership. Representing Gawker in its Chapter 11 filing. Leading a 10-month independent investigation for the U.S. Olympic Committee into sexual abuses by former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar. Representing Willkie Farr & Gallagher (then) co-chairman Gordon Caplan, JD, who was arrested in March 2019 as a parent participant in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. Caplan is represented by firm partners Joshua Levy, co-chairman of global litigation and enforcement practice, and Michael McGovern, co-chairman of government enforcement practice. A guilty plea deal in United States v. Gordon Caplan was filed by United States Attorney Andrew Lelling on March 27, 2019. An Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting the case, Leslie Wright, is a Ropes & Gray alumna. Representing Harris Associates in a seminal case for the mutual funds industry. In March