Nick Lamplough has advised on some of the largest mergers in history and defended companies against Wall Street’s most high-profile activists for nearly two decades.
Nick has advised companies on communications and investor relations strategy in connection with dozens of friendly, unsolicited and contested M&A transactions, hundreds of shareholder activism situations and countless crises.
He is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and was named to the 2022 class of NIRI’s Rising Leaders Under 40 and recognized by the 2023 M&A Advisor Emerging Leader Awards. He received a B.A. in communications, with a minor in business administration, from Northeastern University.
Prior to founding Collected, Nick was a partner at Joele Frank, where he began his career in 2006.
- Brady Corp in its $1.4B acquisition of Honeywell's Productivity Solutions & Services Business
- Tri Pointe Homes in its $4.5B sale to Sumitomo Forest Co.
- Ambrx in its $2 billion sale to Johnson & Johnson
- StandardBio in its $563 million acquisition of SomaLogic
- StarBulk Carriers in its $610 million acquisition of Eagle Bulk Shipping
- Sekisui House in its $4.9 billion acquisition of MDC Holdings
- Subway in its $9 billion sale to Roark
- First Real Estate Investment Trust of New Jersey in its defense of a $163 million unsolicited proposal from K Corp Acquisitions
- Merck in its $11.5 billion acquisition of Acceleron
- Scientific Games in its divestitures of OpenBet and Lottery business
- Verizon in its $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone's 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless
- Toys R Us in its Chapter 11 restructuring
- SpartanNash in its successful proxy contest against Macellum and Ancora
- Oshkosh Corp in its successful proxy contest against Carl Icahn