January 04, 2012
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's mergers and acquisitions team racked up a series of blockbuster deals in 2011 that were noted as much for their complexity as their dollar totals, earning the team a spot on Law360's list of practice groups of the year.
January 03, 2012
With Cravath, Swaine & Moore routinely taking on multibillion-dollar mergers and helping to fend off hostile takeover bids like Nasdaq's in the NYSE Euronext, Deutsche Boerse merger, the firm's full arsenal was on display in the mergers and acquisitions arena in 2011, earning it a spot as one of Law360's practice groups of the year.
January 19, 2011
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has broken new ground by counseling General Growth Properties Inc. on a recapitalization that allowed it to relist its stock while still bankrupt and advising General Electric Co. on a deal that could reshape the media landscape, making it one of Law360's Corporate Finance Groups of 2010.
January 18, 2011
Skilled in coming up with innovative solutions for its clients, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped Alcon Inc.'s independent director committee set up a litigation trust to put pressure on Novartis AG to pay more for the remaining public interest in the eye care company in a three-stage acquisition transaction valued at a total of $51.4 billion, garnering it a spot among Law360's Corporate Finance Groups of 2010.
January 14, 2011
The mergers and acquisitions team at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP shepherded clients through many of the year's biggest deals, including XTO Energy Inc.'s $41 billion sale to Exxon Mobil Corp. and The Coca-Cola Co.'s absorption of its North American bottling operations, earning it a spot among Law360's Corporate Finance Groups of 2010.
January 13, 2011
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's hat trick in September — thwarting attempted hostile takeovers of its clients Barnes & Noble Inc. and Casey's General Stores Inc. and pushing through a proxy takeover of Airgas Inc. for its client Air Products and Chemicals Inc. — and its work on some of the year's biggest deals earned the firm laurels as one of Law360's Corporate Finance Groups of 2010.
January 12, 2011
From its role in American International Group Inc.'s divestment efforts to advising BHP Billiton Ltd. in its $39 billion bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has been at the center of some of the most widely observed transactions of the year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Corporate Finance Groups of 2010.
January 11, 2011
In spite of an overall tame year for mergers and acquisitions, several firms' corporate finance practices set themselves apart for their role in some of 2010's most closely watched, complex and innovative transactions, earning them the distinction of being named Law360's Corporate Finance Groups of 2010.