Carys J.
Webb

Ms. Webb is a member of the Data Security and Privacy Practice, where she also routinely assists clients with policy development and incident response.

Ms. Webb is recognized by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and the American Bar Association as a Privacy Law Specialist. She is certified by the IAPP as a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the laws of the United States (CIPP/US) and the laws of the European Union (CIPP/E) and as a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). Ms. Webb is also a member of the IAPP’s Exam Development Advisory Board for the CIPP/US exam.

Ms. Webb’s notable matters include representing:

• Mylan in its $50 billion combination with Upjohn, a division of Pfizer, to form Viatris, and Viatris in its divestitures totaling $6.94 billion in value, including the $3.335 billion combination of its biosimilars portfolio with Biocon Biologics and the divestitures of its Over the Counter, Women’s Healthcare and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients businesses;
• Afterpay in its $29 billion acquisition by Block;
• Paramount’s special committee in the pending $28 billion merger with Skydance;
• Amazon in its $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM;
• Brookfield Renewable in its strategic partnership with Cameco to acquire Westinghouse for $8 billion;
• Illumina in its $8 billion acquisition and subsequent spin-off of GRAIL and its co‑development agreement with SomaLogic;
• AmerisourceBergen in its $6.5 billion acquisition of Walgreens’ Alliance Healthcare businesses;
• Light & Wonder in the $6.05 billion sale of SG Lottery to Brookfield, the $1.02 billion sale of OpenBet to Endeavor and its acquisition of the remaining stake in SciPlay;
• The Snyder family in the $6.05 billion sale of the NFL’s Washington Commanders to a partnership led by Josh Harris;
• Star Bulk in its $2.1 billion combination with Eagle Bulk Shipping;
• American Securities and Lindsay Goldberg in Amentum’s $1.9 billion acquisition of PAE;
• Route Mobile and its founding shareholders in the ₹59.22 billion sale of a majority stake in Route Mobile to Proximus Group;
• ZimVie in the pending $375 million sale of its spine business to H.I.G. Capital;
• BDT & MSD and its affiliates in connection with multiple acquisitions, structured investments and other transactions, including:
  • BDT’s combination with MSD Partners; and
  • the take-private acquisition of Weber, valuing Weber at $3.7 billion;
• Bacardi in its acquisition of ILEGAL Mezcal;
• DRI Capital in its acquisition of a royalty interest in Orserdu from Eisai, its acquisition of a second royalty interest in Orserdu from Radius Health and the $210 million sale of its TZIELD royalty interest to Sanofi;
• Lindsay Goldberg and its portfolio companies in connection with multiple transactions, including Amentum’s Reverse Morris Trust merger with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, creating a combined organization with $13 billion in revenue, and the acquisition of Golden State Foods;
• the underwriters in the IPO of On Holding;
• Pitney Bowes in the sale of Borderfree to Global‑e; and
• Quibi in its sale to Roku.

Ms. Webb is from Princeton, New Jersey. She received a B.A. with Distinction in the Major from Yale College in 2012. After graduating from Yale, Ms. Webb was a legal analyst at an investment bank in New York City. She received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2017, where she was the Business and Bluebook Chair of the Law Review and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics.

Ms. Webb joined Cravath in 2017 and was named a senior attorney in 2024.