Our Approach

We advise clients across the entire spectrum of the consumer products industry, including the retail, apparel, food and beverage sectors. Our clients include a number of the largest retailers, apparel producers, consumer electronics makers and food and beverage companies around the world.
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Of Note

Our regular clients in this area have included:

PepsiCo
Heinz
CVS Caremark
LVMH
Limited Brands
Campbell Soup Company

Notable Matters

We have advised on some of the largest-ever consumer product industry transactions including:
- Representing Gillette on its $57 billion acquisition by Procter & Gamble to form the world’s largest provider of consumer products.
- Representing the lead arrangers in connection with a $45 billion credit facility for InBev, the largest syndicated credit facility of all time. The credit facility was used to fund InBev’s $52 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch.
- Representing PepsiCo in connection with its acquisition of its two largest anchor bottlers for approximately $7.8 billion.
- Serving as primary outside counsel to CVS Caremark and have advised the company across most of its recent major corporate and litigation matters over the past decade, including the $25 billion merger of CVS and Caremark, its multi-billion acquisitions of Albertsons and Longs drug stores and numerous multi-billion dollar securities offerings and credit transactions.

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