Our M&A lawyers bring sophisticated judgment, advice and service to these high-stakes matters. Equally important is our ability to offer the same high level of expertise across the broad spectrum of other disciplines that are critical to achieving success in these multifaceted and often contentious matters, such as antitrust, tax, executive compensation, intellectual property and litigation.

• We are advising Cosan S.A. Indústria e Comércio, the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world and the largest ethanol producer in Brazil, in connection with the proposed formation of a $12 billion joint venture with Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, in Brazil for the production of ethanol, sugar and power, and supply, distribution and retail of transportation fuels.
• We advised long-time client PepsiCo in connection with its definitive agreements to acquire its two largest anchor bottlers for approximately $7.8 billion.
• We are advising AREVA, a provider of technological solutions for nuclear power generation, transmission and distribution, in connection with the sale of its Transmission and Distribution division (AREVA T&D) to Alstom and Schneider Electric. The enterprise value of the transaction is €4.09 billion.
• We advised Grupo Ferrovial, one of the world’s leading infrastructure companies based in Madrid, on its merger with Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, a Madrid-based toll road development and management company and a 66.88%-owned subsidiary of Grupo Ferrovial.
• We served as U.S. counsel to the Swedish government in connection with its €5.6 billion sale of V&S Vin & Sprit, maker of Absolut Vodka, to French liquor company Pernod Ricard.
• We advised Warner Chilcott in connection with its $3.1 billion acquisition of The Procter & Gamble Company’s global pharmaceutical business and the related financing. P&G’s global pharmaceutical business includes leading brands such as Asacol HD, Actonel and Enablex.
• We advised CVS Caremark Corporation on its successful $2.9 billion contested acquisition of Longs Drug Stores Corporation. Through this acquisition, CVS Caremark acquired Longs’ 521 retail drug stores in California, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona, as well as its Rx America subsidiary, which offers prescription benefits management (PBM) services to over 8 million members and prescription drug plan benefits to approximately 450,000 Medicare beneficiaries.
• We advised Bermudan reinsurer PartnerRe on its approximately $2 billion acquisition of PARIS RE, a Swiss reinsurer. 
• We advised China Investment Corporation (CIC), the Chinese sovereign wealth fund, in connection with its $1.9 billion investment in PT Bumi Resources Tbk (Bumi), the largest coal mining company in Indonesia.
• We are advising MSCI, a provider of investment decision support tools to investment institutions worldwide, on its $1.55 billion acquisition of RiskMetrics, a provider of risk management and corporate governance products and services to the global financial community.
• We are advising Morgan Stanley on the $1.5 billion sale of its retail investment management business, including Van Kampen Investments, to Invesco, an Atlanta, Georgia-based independent global investment management company.
• We advised Emerson on its approximately $1.2 billion acquisition of Avocent, a Huntsville, Alabama-based IT operations management solutions company. 
• We advised Nikko Asset Management Co., a Japanese investment management company, on its ¥112.4 billion acquisition by The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., a Japanese bank.
• We advised Comcast Corporation on its $1.05 billion investment in a new public company resulting from the combination of the high-speed wireless businesses of Sprint Nextel Corporation and Clearwire Corporation. We also advised Comcast on a subsequent $196 million additional investment in the company.
• We are advising Equinix, a provider of global data center services, on its $689 million acquisition of Switch & Data, a provider of data center and Internet exchange services. 
• We advised Virgin Group on Virgin Mobile USA’s $483 million acquisition by Sprint Nextel. Virgin Group is Virgin Mobile USA’s largest shareholder with approximately 26 million shares on a fully diluted basis or 28.3% ownership. We also advised Deutsche Bank Securities as financial adviser to an independent special committee of the board of directors of Virgin Mobile USA. in connection with the transaction.