Team
Partner
Henry A. Silver
Menlo Park
Henry Silver is a Partner at Centerview Partners with deep experience across industries and a focus on technology, marketplaces and omni-channel commerce. He has ~15 years of experience in finance, and has deep experience in mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism, investor communications and general corporate advisory.
Representative transactions include:
- Sale of TripleLift to Vista Equity Partners for $1.4bn
- Target’s acquisition of Shipt for $500mm
- Thirty Madison’s all stock acquisition of Nurx
- Hasbro’s acquisition of Entertainment One for $4.0bn
- Corporate Executive Board’s sale to Gartner for $3.3bn
- Sale of Hasbro’s Film and Television business to Lionsgate for $500mm
- Separation of Topgolf from Topgolf Callaway
- C&S’s announced acquisition of the Kroger / Albertson’s Divestiture Store Package for $2.8bn
- Smart and Final’s sale to Apollo for $1.1bn
- Bluemercury’s sale to Macy’s for $210mm
- Conagra’s acquisition of Pinnacle Foods for $10.9bn
- Campbell Soup’s separate sales of Campbell International, Kelsen Group, Bolthouse Farms and Garden Fresh Gourmet for over $3.0bn
- Exxon Mobil’s $65bn acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources
- U.S. Silica’s acquisition of EP Minerals for $750mm
Henry’s shareholder activism experience includes:
- Starbucks defense from SOC
- Pepsi’s defense from Trian Partners
- Campbell Soup Company’s defense from Third Point
- Emerson’s defense from D.E. Shaw
- Aaron’s Rental’s defense from a hostile bid and proxy fight launched by Vintage Capital and Starboard Value
- Hasbro’s defense from Alta Fox
Henry began his career in investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and has spent time in investment banking, public equities investing and financial due diligence.
Henry has an M.B.A from the Yale School of Management, a B.S. from the University of Maryland and lives with his wife Katlyn and their three children in New York City.